Dreamville Fest announces lineup for two-day festival
Dreamville Festival, the popular music festival from rapper J. Cole, has announced its lineup for this year's two-day event at Dix Park.
The entire Dreamville Records roster will be performing during the festival including J. Cole, Ari Lennox, Bas, J.I.D, EarthGang, Cozz, Omen, and Lute, who hails from Charlotte.
The lineup also includes Lil Baby, T-Pain, Ja Rule & Ashanti, WizKid, Kehlani, Moneybagg Yo, Bia, Morray, Wale, Rico Nasty, Fivio Foreign and Larry June.
The festival will be the site of the first performance of DJ Drama's Gangsta Grillz collaborative performance which will feature southern rap icons Lil Wayne, Jeezy and T.I.
A schedule of performances has not been released, but here is a break-down of performers by day:
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
- Blxst
- Earthgang
- Fivio Foreign
- Ja Rule & Ashanti
- J.I.D
- Kehlani
- Lil Baby
- Lute
- Mereba
- Mikhala Jené
- Morray
- WizKid
SUNDAY, APRIL 3
- Ari Lennox
- Bas
- Bia
- Cozz
- DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz Featuring: Lil Wayne + Jeezy + T.I.
- J. Cole
- Larry June
- Moneybagg Yo
- Omen
- Rico Nasty
- T. Pain
- The Hics
- Wale
The festival, which is being held April 2-3 at Dix Park, will require guests to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccinations or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of attending the event.
General admission and VIP tickets are on sale now via the Dreamville Festival website.
The Dreamville Festival benefits the Dreamville Foundation and Dix Park Conservancy.
The first Dreamville Festival was held in April, 2019 after being postponed from its original September 2018 date due to Hurricane Florence.
It was the first major concert event at Dix Park and went off with few issues. While heavy traffic and long lines were to be expected, the event didn't have nearly enough food vendors to handle the sell-out 40,000 person crowd, which resulted in unreasonably long lines for meals.
Dreamville Fest was set to hold its second annual event in Raleigh's Dix Park in April 2020, but it was postponed due to COVID-19.
J. Cole, who was born in Germany but was raised in Fayetteville, will also be performing this year in Greensboro. "The Off-Season Tour" will feature Cole, 21 Savage and Morray at the Greensboro Coliseum on Sept. 28. Tickets go on sale for that show on Friday.
