7.19.2023
Rolling Loud Week Takes Over Miami With Unique Events Leading Into the Eighth Annual Rolling Loud Miami
Events Run From 7/19-7/23 and Include Partnerships with the Miami HEAT, BMAC, Forever21 & More
Headlined by Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti, The World’s Largest Hip-Hop Festival Returns to Hard Rock Stadium on July 21-23, 2023
Rolling Loud Hosts a Series of Community-Focused Events in Their Hometown, Partnering With Miami Institutions and Cultural Forces to Engage With All Aspects of Hip-Hop Culture
The Announcement:
Rolling Loud has expanded to multiple cities, countries, and continents, but Miami will always be its home. In advance of this year’s Rolling Loud Miami 2023, happening this weekend at Hard Rock Stadium, Rolling Loud hosts Rolling Loud Week, a series of community-focused events happening around the city, presented alongside partners that include the Miami HEAT, BMAC, Forever21, and more. Ranging from rallys with members of Congress to streetwear pop-ups and more, Rolling Loud Week demonstrates the festival’s dedication to its hometown and advocacy for hip-hop culture in the city and beyond.
Headlined by Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti, Rolling Loud Miami 2023 boasts the festival’s most expansive lineup to date. For the first time, Rolling Loud branches out to include artists from across the genre spectrum who bring a hip-hop ethos to the music they make, including alt-pop sensation Foushee, Latin music stars Anuel AA and El Alfa, and hardcore punk band Turnstile. Fans can expect Rolling Loud Miami to bring a diverse complement of surprises and special guests into the fold. Rolling Loud Miami returns for its eighth edition on July 21-23, 2023 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL.
See the full schedule of Rolling Loud Week events below:
Wednesday, July 19th:
- Jr. HEAT x Rolling Loud (Private Event): Rolling Loud teams up with the Miami HEAT to host a basketball clinic for local youth from After-School All-Stars at the basketball courts on the festival grounds. Clinic participants will have the opportunity to train with and learn from current and former Miami HEAT players and coaches, including NBA stars Udonis Haslem & Haywood Highsmith.
- Forever21 x Bunny’s Bae Bar (3-5pm @ the Aventura Mall): Forever21 and Rolling Loud continue their partnership in Miami. Forever21 is the official sponsor of Bunny’s Bae Bar, an on-site activation at Rolling Loud founded by Bunny Zingler, which gives fans a one-stop-glam-shop with everything fans at Rolling Loud need to refresh and elevate their festival looks, including Forever 21 x Rolling Loud Miami merchandise. Bunny Zingler will debut the Forever 21 x Rolling Loud Miami merchandise and meet-and-greet with fans at the Forever21 store at the Aventura Mall, minutes away from Hard Rock Stadium.
Thursday, July 20th:
- DGK x Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dae (private event): Rolling Loud partners with skateboarding institution DGK to host members of Miami Garden’s chapter of Boys & Girls Club of America at their site in Kendall. 50 kids will have the opportunity to learn new skills and receive free skateboards and apparel from DGK and Rolling Loud.
- Rolling Loud x BBC Ice Cream Pop-Up (5-8pm @ the BBC Flagship in Wynwood): Miami-based streetwear company Billionaire Boys Club is a longstanding partner of Rolling Loud, collaborating with the festival on numerous merch capsules and events during Rolling Loud’s eight-year history. Rolling Loud and BBC will host a pop-up at BBC’s flagship store in Wynwood to debut the latest Rolling Loud x BBC Ice Cream capsule. The annual pop-up is a popular destination for Rolling Loud performing artists. Early arrival suggested.
Friday July 21st:
- Rolling Loud x BMAC – “RAP Act” Town Hall (5-6pm on Festival Grounds at BMAC Community Lounge): Rolling Loud partners with the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) to host a rally with two sitting U.S. congressmen: Jamaal Bowman (D, NY-16) and Hank Johnson (D, GA-04). Congressmen Bowman and Johnson are co-sponsors of the Restore Artistic Protection (RAP) Act, which seeks to protect artists from the wrongful use of their creative expression against them in criminal and civil proceedings. Festival goers will have the chance to dialogue directly with the Representatives at BMAC’s on-site activation, to have questions answered, and attain a better understanding of the impact of the pending legislation
Along with these community-focused events, Rolling Loud Week includes a takeover of Miami’s nightlife scene. Throughout the weekend, Rolling Loud hosts club nights at the city’s most popular clubs, featuring some of the biggest artists on the lineup. View the full schedule below:
Friday July 21:
- Playboi Carti @ E11even – Doors at 8pm
- Chase B @ GALA – Doors at 11pm
Saturday, July 22:
- Travis Scott @ E11even – Doors at 8pm
- Lil Uzi Vert @ GALA – Doors at 11pm
Sunday, July 23:
- Lil Uzi Vert @ E11even – Doors at 8pm
- A$AP Rocky @ GALA – Doors at 11pm
Led by its founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, Rolling Loud is the most powerful rap festival in history. Stay tuned for many more announcements.
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Critical Praise:
“Built from scratch by lifelong music fans Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, Rolling Loud’s early strengths were its daring curation and booking, elevating a new generation of artists with exciting live shows and captivating energy. Today, the biggest performers headline the raucous Miami festival, coming from all over the world, often driven solely by their love and trust of Zingler and Cherif.” – Billboard
“From niche hip-hop festival to must-play event for some of the biggest stars in music.” – Pollstar
“Until Elon Musk involuntarily envelops society into a physical cloud universe, Rolling Loud will be the closest experience to actually living inside your streaming app.” – Complex
“Rolling Loud’s annual New York edition is always something special, but this year’s Halloween-weekend extravaganza (not to mention the first post-pandemic) brought seriously spectacular energy to Queens’ Citi Field.” – Highsnobiety
“Rolling Loud is a lifestyle brand. They are more than just the shows. They have built a community with their consumers and are building new channels to maintain continuity” – Forbes
“In four and a half years — beginning small in Miami, and now promoting Coachella-sized events around the country — Rolling Loud has established itself as a playground for the young…This time last year, many of the rappers now drawing crowds of several thousand were barely known.” – The New York Times
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The Background:
Founded by 6-time Billboard Hip-Hop Power Players Matt Zingler & Tariq Cherif as a one-day Miami show, Rolling Loud has grown into a global festival phenomenon, putting on shows on both coasts and in multiple countries. Rolling Loud is the premier festival brand in hip-hop, known for its expert curation of wide-ranging lineups that reflect the state of the genre.
In 2023, Rolling Loud expanded its empire even further, hosting a series of star-studded festivals in all corners of the globe. The festival kicked off its biggest year yet by returning to Los Angeles for Rolling Loud California. Just weeks later, Rolling Loud debuted Rolling Loud Thailand, its first-ever Asian festival. Rolling Loud continues its world tour this summer with three European shows including Rolling Loud Portugal, and the inaugural editions of Rolling Loud Rotterdam and Rolling Loud Germany.
Rolling Loud season culminates with its flagship festival, Rolling Loud Miami 2023, which returns for its eighth edition on July 21-23, featuring headliners Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti, and a wide-ranging lineup including Latin stars Anuel AA & El Alfa, and hardcore punk band Turnstile.
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