And we can't forget to mention the lineup's hefty serving of Bay love: local heroes Nef the Pharaoh, Rexx Life Raj, Philthy Rich, and Marty Grimes will be reppin' that hometown pride like they mean it. Fresh off a massively successful festival in the Bay Area, Rolling Loud heads down I-5 to Los Angeles to host another carnival for the culture. XXL's Freshman Class - a somewhat controversial barometer of taste and heat since its inception - makes its presence known with a slew of 2017 honorees: XXXTentacion, PNB Rock, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, and Playboi Carti. Chart-topping young superstars Lil Uzi Vert and Kodak Black rub elbows with underground kings Isaiah Rashad, Curren$y, and Denzel Curry. Rolling Loud's talent buyers know exactly what they're doing, filling the lineup from top to bottom with a sizable and diverse list of popping emcees. For a festival as young and relatively untested as Rolling Loud, this is no small feat.īut it's also not hard to see why the festival is as massively popular as it is. Rolling Loud was the first festival to debut some of the most.
The Bay Area installment sold 10,000 tickets within 24 hours and sold out over half of the Shoreline Amphitheatre's Festival Grounds in a single week. Rolling Loud was the first festival to debut some of the most famous rappers at the moment 7.
