Hip-Hop artists

We track 309 Hip-Hop artists. 142 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Camp Flog Gnaw and Coachella. 96 have tour dates on sale, 501 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

96 Hip-Hop artists with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Hip-Hop artists on the bill, soonest first. The Hip-Hop festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  2. 2DJ Snake5Paris-born hit machine, from 'Turn Down for What' to 'Taki Taki', and festival main stages are his natural habitat.
  3. 3Limp Bizkit5Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era. Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
  4. 4Skepta5Grime's global ambassador, with Konnichiwa-era bars and a DJ's instincts, London energy at any scale, and 'Shutdown' still a detonation.
  5. 5Tyler, The Creator5Odd Future's ringleader turned auteur, with every record a full costume change and every tour a proper production, Grammy-decorated and still restless.
  6. 6Ludacris4Atlanta's fastest wit, with twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
  7. 7Travis Scott4Houston rapper and producer behind Astroworld, building murky, psychedelic trap from Auto-Tuned hooks and cavernous bass. Live shows run on sheer crowd chaos.
  8. 8Doechii3Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  9. 9RL Grime3The producer who made festival trap feel cinematic, with enormous drops and real compositional care, Halloween-mix mythology included.
  10. 10A$AP Rocky2Harlem's most style-conscious rapper, always a couple of years ahead of the room, folds cloud-rap haze, chopped-and-screwed detours, and high-fashion swagger into records that set trends instead of chasing them.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1LYNY8Textural, psychedelic bass music that is heavy without being blunt about it.
  2. 2Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  3. 32hollis7Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience, with icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
  4. 4Clipse7Pusha T and Malice, reunited: coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
  5. 5Ecca Vandal7Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap with riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
  6. 6ISOxo7Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes, with bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
  7. 7Ludacris7Atlanta's fastest wit, with twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
  8. 8P.O.D.7'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' are the calling cards of San Diego's nu-metal survivors, whose positivity stayed intact through every scene cycle.
  9. 9Zack Fox7Comedian and rapper in equal measure. The jokes are real and so, annoyingly, are the songs, beats from rap's A-list included.
  10. 10Doechii6Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.

Most favorited by readers

The Hip-Hop artists people here actually listen to, booked or not.

  1. 1DrakeToronto rapper and singer who made the sung-rapped hook standard, moving between dancehall, Memphis rap and late-night confessional over a decade of chart dominance.
  2. 2Kendrick LamarCompton rapper whose dense, character-driven records turned West Coast storytelling into something closer to theatre. The only rapper with a Pulitzer.
  3. 3Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  4. 4JAY-ZMarcy Projects rapper turned mogul, still the sharpest technician of his generation over soul loops chopped up high and fast.
  5. 5Tyler, The CreatorOdd Future's ringleader turned auteur, with every record a full costume change and every tour a proper production, Grammy-decorated and still restless.
  6. 6Childish GambinoDonald Glover's music project outgrew the joke a decade ago, now offering psychedelic funk and gospel-sized soul from a writer who treats an album like a screenplay.
  7. 7ClipsePusha T and Malice, reunited: coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
  8. 8DMXYonkers rapper whose barked, gravel-throated delivery and snarling ad-libs drove 'Ruff Ryders' Anthem' and 'Party Up (Up in Here)'. Raw aggression undercut by startling confessional candour.
  9. 9DoechiiSwitches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters, and the result is theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  10. 10J. ColeFayetteville rapper and producer who builds his own beats and sells millions without guest features, writing long autobiographical verses about class and doubt.

Most saved to a plan

The Hip-Hop artists people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Gym Class HeroesTravie McCoy's band bent rap, rock and pop into one radio-shaped thing, and Cupid's Chokehold and Stereo Hearts are the proof. Live they play it as a party rather than a nostalgia set.
  2. 2Kooley HighRaleigh's veteran hip-hop crew, offering warm, sample-driven North Carolina boom-bap with deep local roots and Little Brother lineage in the DNA.
  3. 3OddiseeProlific DC rapper-producer whose warm, jazz-laced boom-bap and live band Good Compny make thinking-person's rap groove (craft over hype, always).
  4. 4Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  5. 5Black MilkDetroit beat-scene heavyweight with Dilla-lineage production and hard-hitting drums, often backed live by his band Nat Turner for a hip-hop set that swings like a fusion gig.
  6. 6Daily BreadDusty, hip-hop-rooted electro-soul that would sound at home on a boom-bap record if you slowed it down, with Atlanta sample-craft in the Pretty Lights lineage.
  7. 7Insane Clown PosseThe Faygo flies at sundown: whoop whoop, and genuinely one of music's strangest, most loyal communities gathered in one place.
  8. 8JooselordRaleigh's mosh-pit rap general (metal-adjacent, high-adrenaline hip-hop engineered for chaos in small rooms) and a local legend for it.
  9. 9Alison WonderlandClassically trained cellist turned bass heavyweight who sings on her own emotionally raw records, with trap-sized drops carrying genuinely vulnerable songwriting underneath.
  10. 10Bryce VineSunny pop-rap with a guitar underneath, and 'Drew Barrymore' breeziness built for a summer that never quite ends.

All 309 Hip-Hop artists

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

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Other genres

EDM 529Indie 496Alternative 453Rock 390Pop 365Punk 317Folk and Americana 287House 267Metal 261Country 252R&B and Soul 226Hardcore 135Techno 134Dubstep and Bass 124Bluegrass 99Latin 96Jazz 76Emo 66Shoegaze and Dream Pop 62Trance 52Psychedelic 47Reggae and Dancehall 37Blues 32Drum & Bass 32Hardstyle and Hard Dance 22

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