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Rolling Loud Highlights From Day 1 Feat. Wiz Khalifa, Kevin Gates, Lil Baby & More

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Fireworks Above the Dryp Stage (Photo Credit: James Baxter)


Growing from a single day Miami-based festival into a global company and the biggest live brand in rap music, Rolling Loud’s success embodies the spirit of Hip-Hop. Gathering a variety of rap’s biggest names for a two day bash, Rolling Loud is preparing the finishing touches on Rolling Loud Bay Area 2018, occurring on September 15th and 16th. Headlined by turn-up titan Travis Scott and Taylor Gang ringleader Wiz Khalifa, the artist roster for Rolling Loud Bay Area is as star-studded as they come, boasting Hip-Hop heavy hitters like Rae Sremmurd, Pusha T, Gucci Mane, and Kevin Gates, local heroes like E-40, IAMSU!, Kamaiyah, Mozzy, and P-Lo, XXL Freshmen like Trippie Redd, wifisfuneral and  BlocBoy JB, and other rapidly rising stars, including Juice WRLD, Lil Baby,  Yung Bans, Lil Skies, and Saweetie. Occurring over two days on the grounds of Oakland Coliseum, Rolling Loud Bay Area brings the blast of hyphy local energy that the rap game desperately needs.

You can check out some pics from the Oakland festival below and if you really want to re-experience some of the festival, click HERE to check out some behind the scenes content and interviews.

 

Wiz Khalifa Performs a Headlining Set with a Live Band, Playing Hits Like “Black & Yellow” and Bringing Out Vallejo’s Own SOB X RBE (Photo Credit: Marcus McDonald)

 

The G.O.O.D. Music CEO Performs Hits From His Acclaimed DAYTONA Album

 

Kevin Gates Charms the Crowd With His Irascible Personality and His Deep Array of Hits (Photo Credit: Adi Muhtarevic)

 

ATL’s Hottest Emcee Turns in a Starmaking Performance on the Main Stage (Photo Credit: Adi Muhtarevic)

Dead End Hip Hop: A3C Playlist (Pt. 1)

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As most of you know Atlanta’s homegrown conference A3C begins this Wednesday, with a gang of conferences and shows to fill your hip-hop appetite. We’ll be there covering the festival all week long with coverage and today we’re starting with Part 1 of our A3C playlist series.

For this one we wanted to keep it simple and give you guys some names you know and mix some artists that you might not have heard of just yet. We also tried to do a Side A/B type deal, so the first 7 or 8 joints have a more underground feel and halfway through we switch it up and Side B of this playlist is for the turnup. We’ve got IDK, Kirk Knight, Smino, Wifisfuneral, Nas, Masta Ace, Bahamadia and more.

You can stream the playlist below, A3C begins on Wednesday and will have conferences running through the week that you can check out HERE. Keep it locked because we’ll be giving you 5 Conferences You Must Check Out at A3C here on the site tomorrow!