Hip Hop & The Glastonbury Festival

[mattgimmeshelter]

which is why i find him so hard to place. clearly gonna get ridiculously big with his new album so he's a tough one to pin down (although what with Disclosure headlining it this year and their huge size i guess West Holts headliner wouldn't be out of the question, although he'd also fit quite comfortably mid/high on Pyramid and high on Other like you said)

So what if he's out of place, they should wack him on the pyramid. He deserves it more than a lower stage.

If they really want to book him, needs to be just as he releases his next album... reckon he's gonna headline wireless / smaller festivals in not a long time.

[The Nal]

Looks like the will be no NWA reunion tour. But Ice Cube please!

 

[FloorFiller]

Looks like the will be no NWA reunion tour. But Ice Cube please!

 

didn't think it was really likely, but where has this been confirmed?

 

probably not very likely but i'd take Ice Cube in a heartbeat - perhaps moreso than NWA (looking at a recent setlist and he plays all of the NWA songs i care about anyway)

[The Nal]

didn't think it was really likely, but where has this been confirmed?

 

Yeah Dre's peeps said hes not doing it.

 

probably not very likely but i'd take Ice Cube in a heartbeat - perhaps moreso than NWA (looking at a recent setlist and he plays all of the NWA songs i care about anyway)

 

Saturday 5pm please!

 

Great setlist.

Edited September 4, 2015 by The Nal

[fatyeti24]

Yeah Dre's peeps said hes not doing it.

Saturday 5pm please!

Great setlist.

Dopeman! I'd never heard anything like that at the time (or probably a few years later). We used to watch that scene from menace 2 society over and over!

Edited September 4, 2015 by fatyeti24

[bamber]

Drake. The tune needs an old school response record by an angry female to be honest. Do these even happen any more? Bring it on! the lyrics are ripe for re-writing.

Love this original too though. Drake would surely nail any slot he was given next summer in Somerset.

 

 

This tune samples the epic, seminal Timmy Thomas tune - "Why Can't We Live Together", good enough for me.

 

Edited September 8, 2015 by bamber

[FuzzyDunlop]

Yeah Dre's peeps said hes not doing it.

Saturday 5pm please!

Great setlist.

What about West Holts Headliner rather than Sat at 5?

[big__phil]

 

So what if he's out of place, they should wack him on the pyramid. He deserves it more than a lower stage.

 

If they really want to book him, needs to be just as he releases his next album... reckon he's gonna headline wireless / smaller festivals in not a long time.

 

Apparently (I wasn't there) Kendrick got crowds as big as the headlines at Reading, where he was sub. I was gutted he was at G this year, I thought it was a cert! Easily the best album of the year so far for me, so headlining the Other Stage doesn't seem like that much of a leap for me (see this year's OS headliners).

[bamber]

Drake. The tune needs an old school response record

 

 

Here You Go.

 

Edited September 19, 2015 by bamber

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[Matt42]

Looking like we could have a strong year for this in 2022. (rap/hip hop/r&l/uk rap)

Kendrick Lamar, AJ Tracey, Aitch, Anderson .Paak, Burna Boy, Danny Brown, Dizzie Rascal, Greentea Peng, Kano, Kelis, TLC likely to come back

with the potential of Dave, Megan Thee Stallion appearing too. Even J.Cole thrown around as a name. Does give me hope the festival might be brave and go for acts like Doja Cat too.

It’s quite interesting to see how far the festival has come in booking Rap/R&B/Hip Hop acts.

 

Edited October 10, 2021 by Matt42

[Guy Incognito]

Earl Sweatshirt is around. Cant see Glastonbury booking him but they definitely should. Some Rap Songs and Feet Of Clay are among the best hip hop albums of the past 5 years or so. Got a new record ready to go too.

[kalifire]

Also Little Simz! 

[Matt42]

46 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Also Little Simz! 

Forgot about her! A pretty glaring omission on my behalf!

[Haan]

23 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Looking like we could have a strong year for this in 2022. (rap/hip hop/r&l/uk rap)

Kendrick Lamar, AJ Tracey, Aitch, Anderson .Paak, Burna Boy, Danny Brown, Dizzie Rascal, Greentea Peng, Kano, Kelis, TLC likely to come back

with the potential of Dave, Megan Thee Stallion appearing too. Even J.Cole thrown around as a name. Does give me hope the festival might be brave and go for acts like Doja Cat too.

It’s quite interesting to see how far the festival has come in booking Rap/R&B/Hip Hop acts.

 

I would also like to see some late night Hip Hop DJ's too, like Martha, Jyoty, maybe even Kenny Beats

[Matt42]

Super strong this year 

Definitely feels like previous years have been building to a lineup like this.

[Guy Incognito]

Conversely, disappointing hip hop line up for me. Simz and Kendrick is good yes but losing Danny Brown is a shame. Wish they'd gone for Earl Sweatshirt who is around. Any of Pink Siifu, Rapsody, Jay Electronica, Freddie Gibbs would have been good too. 

Doja and Megan bookings feel more like ones for the pop crowd than the hip hop crowd imo. Glastonbury just doesn't book very much good hip hop really. 

[Haan]

ghetts is decent

 

 

Wonder if there'll be any hip-hop DJ's? That would be cool

 

 

[Haan]

50 minutes ago, Guy Incognito said:

Doja and Megan bookings feel more like ones for the pop crowd than the hip hop crowd imo. 

Doja is hip hop 

 

And Megan has 0 pop songs, maybe WAP, but all her most loved songs are freestyles 

 

[sildante]

Could and definitely should have more hip hop, both from the US and the UK. I like the line up as a whole, and there are a few great names from the genre on there (Ghetts is one of the best artists I saw last year, Little Simz is killing it, Doja/Megan huge mainstream names, and Kendrick is one of the greatest of all time) but hoping to see more hip hop names on the undercard in the individual area line ups. Gutted that Danny Brown and Earthgang weren’t retained. Been told Sonic Stage at Silver Hayes is doing a designated rap / hip hop day (then 1x dnb day and 1x house day) so we’ll get some more on there at least - can’t remember if they always do this. I loved seeing Denzel Curry on the Truth Stage in Shangri La in 2019 - one of my favourite sets of the festival.

Hip hop could really do with its own stage / area (as well as the usual few bigger names on the main stages) like some other genres have which allow you to enjoy the music in the right context and intimacy - e.g Williams Green for indie, the countless dance music areas / sub genre stages, acoustic stage, etc. Would allow the festival to book a wider range of names who don’t necessarily fit on the main stages and probably would be more enjoyable for the artists than being wedged between an indie band and a pop act on the main stages (for example). This would also eventually open up and diversify the Glasto crowd to more hip hop heads which is probably needed a bit, so you don’t have people questioning how big a crowd an artist as highly regarded as Kendrick Lamar will get. Obviously this is something the festival has improved on in recent years and they’ve given iconic headline sets to some of the bigger names and a huge (and much needed) step up for UK artists of the genre with Stormzy, so no criticism intended - just would be good to see this reflected on the undercard. Would love to see the Griselda lot, Jay Electronica, Freddie Gibbs, Curren$y, Mach Hommy, JID, Action Bronson, Boldy James, Earl Sweatshirt, Potter Payper, Unknown T, JME, Vince Staples, and DJ sets from Madlib, Alchemist, Tiffany Calver, etc. Hip hop is the biggest genre in the world now, so any ‘contemporary’ multi-genre music festival should be representing all beautiful sides of it. Might convert a few non-hip hop fans who stumble in out of curiosity, which is what it’s all about - isn’t it? 

[Matt42]

@Col!nit doesn't need its own stage. Glastonbury is doing what it should be doing… booking more and more hip hop on the other and pyramid stage. That’s the only way it becomes integrated into the festival - when it’s given prominent slots and the biggest slots of the weekend are given to acts of that kind. 

[kalifire]

I'm holding out for the individual stage announcements for this year. Silver Hayes may give me a reason to visit there for the first time, there's usually two or three acts at the Rumshack, maybe an unannounced slot or two on a main stage.

Edited March 6, 2022 by kalifire

[Matt42]

1 minute ago, Ddiamondd said:

Know where you’re coming from, but think this is all wrong.

A one size fits all approach is never going to work for hip-hop at Glastonbury. To riff on a few of @Col!n’s suggestions there, Griselda, JID, MIKE, Potter Payper, Tiffany Calver, Mach-Hommy etc are never going to post up on the Pyramid or Other, which means ‘integration’ only extends as the biggest acts. Maybe you get the odd Freddie Gibbs or Danny Brown early in the afternoon on WH, but Glasto should go further.

A hip-hop stage at Glasto wouldn’t relegate the Megans, Dojas, Kanos and Simz — they’re too embedded in the fabric of the pop world and the fest has done a top job of moving with the times there. To backtrack now is unthinkable. It would simply open up a lane for a stronger undercard and provide a gateway to the larger stages when underground talents have a galvanising breakout performance.

Reading & Leeds is a great example for how rap, grime and drill can co-exist on the main stages as well as in the specialist 1Xtra tent.

More is more and that should be encouraged.

Fair enough I agree that it should have a stage for the more up and coming names, but overall they should continue the trend of booking the biggest on the big stages.

So when is Drake doing it then?