D’Angelo (alongside The Roots), Meek Mill and Lenny Kravitz will headline the 2025 Roots Picnic, marking the pageant’s seventeenth iteration.
Curated by Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Roots and produced in collaboration with Dwell Nation City, Roots Picnic will return to The Mann in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Penn. on Saturday, Might 31, and Sunday, June 1, 2025. Presale tickets will probably be out there beginning Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 10 a.m. ET via Thursday, February 20, at 10 p.m. ET. Common on-sale begins Friday, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m. ET. All tickets will probably be out there on the official Roots Picinic web site.
Notably, this 12 months marks Philly MC Meek Mill’s first look at Roots Picnic. He was slated to headline the 2020 present earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic pressured organizers to pivot to a digital manufacturing. D’Angelo final appeared on the pageant in 2016 throughout its first-ever New York version. Rock god Lenny Kravitz is recent off the discharge of Blue Electrical Mild, his funky and fearless twelfth studio album.
This 12 months, the two-day pageant may also rejoice a number of landmark anniversaries. Jeezy will rejoice 20 years of his Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 LP, which topped each Rap Albums and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums again in 2005, with a particular set. Equally, Musiq Soulchild will play a set commemorating the 25-year anniversary of his timeless debut studio album Aijuswanaseing. By no means ones to overlook the get together, The Roots will play a set constructed across the 30-year anniversary of their towering sophomore album, Do You Need Extra?!!!??!
As well as, J. Interval’s Dwell Mixtape sequence will return with particular company Black Thought, Pusha T and a couple of Chainz, whereas Adam Blackstone and Jagged Edge will be a part of forces for a particular collaborative set. Home music legends Crystal Waters and Cece Peniston will seem at Wealthy Medina’s Black Home set, and CeeLo Inexperienced will play Baller Alert’s go-go stage.
Different acts slated to hit the stage embody: GloRilla, Miguel, Tems, Latto, Kaytranada, Elmiene, Lay Bankz, Funk Flex, Diamond Kuts and Laila!
Exterior of performances, Roots Picnic can also be introducing a brand new day get together lineup this 12 months. Attendees can hold the festivities going at Lure Karaoke, Chill Vibes that includes DJ Energetic, Doo-Wop …That R&B Social gathering, Pricey Summer season Competition, Kirk Franklin’s Sunday Faculty w/ DJ Mal-Ski, Philly Black Pleasure, and extra.
Final 12 months, Roots Picnic featured a set of units that celebrated the breadth of Black music historical past. André 3000 carried out his Grammy-nominated different jazz album New Blue Solar, Shaboozey introduced “A Bar Tune” and the Black nation renaissance to Philly and Sexyy Pink made a triumphant Roots Picnic debut after her inclusion on the lineup was initially met with some ire and disdain. The 2024 Roots Picnic headliners included Lil Wayne, André 3000, Nas and Jill Scott.
See the complete lineup beneath.
