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The composition for The Roots Picnic's The 2024 edition is star-studded with feature performances from Lil Wayne, Usand more.
On Monday (February 19), The Roots and Live Nation Urban announced the full lineup for this year's Roots Picnic festival in their hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it's proving to be a blockbuster. Taking place over the weekend of June 1st and 2nd, the lineup of artists spans generations of audiences, starting with multi-Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne headlining with The Roots with his greatest hits. He will be joined on this set as special guests by fellow New Orleans greats Trombone Shorty and PJ Morton.
Other artists performing at The Roots Picnic this year will include Nas and Jill Scott as co-headliners. André 3000, fresh from touring his critically acclaimed orchestral album New Blue Sun, will perform the album live at the festival. Additionally, recent Grammy Award winner Victoria Monét will be performing for the first time at The Roots Picnic. The rest of the lineup will include the beloved J-Period Live Mixtape set starring Black Thought, Redman and Method Man, a Backyard Go-Go Experience set featuring Hip-Hop legend Scarface and Amerie, Gunna, Sexyy Red, Tyla, Smino, Babyface, Robert Glasper with Yebba, Wale and more.
The 2024 Roots Picnic will be hosted at The Mann in Fairmount Park and will also bring back the Parkside Stage (formerly known as the Podcast Stage) where exciting experiences and live podcasts such as the Million Dollaz Worth of Game, the Juan Epstein Podcast and The World Series of Spades will be held in addition to others to be announced soon. There will also be a vendor village for attendees to participate in, in addition to a food court with restaurants specially curated by The Roots for the festival.
Those who have attended The Roots Picnic in the past will have the opportunity to purchase tickets on Tuesday (February 20) at 10am. EST on special presale. Tickets for the general public, including weekend tickets and VIP tickets will be available at the festival Website starting on Friday (February 23).
