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Location	Worldwide
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The following is anincomplete list of hip-hop festivals, which encapsulatesmusic festivals focused onhip hop music or other elements ofhip-hop culture.Hip-hop, also called rap music,^[1]^[2]^[3] is amusic genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompaniesrapping, a rhythmic and rhymin speech that is chanted.^[1]

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The following is an incomplete list of both ongoing and defunct festivals.
Festival name	Location	Attendance	Years
Beach, Please! Festival	Costinești,Romania	260000	2022 - Present
Rolling Loud	United States; Australia; Canada; The Netherlands; Portugal; Thailand; Germany; Austria;	255000	2015 - Present
Essence Music Festival	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	550000	1994–present
Les Ardentes Festival	Liege,Belgium	245000	2006–present
Cancun Jumpoff	Cancun,Mexico	12000	2003–present
Urban Beach Week	Miami, Florida, United States	400000	1990–present
Outside Lands Festival	San Francisco, California, United States	200000	2008–present
SF International HipHop DanceFest	San Francisco, California, United States	~4000	1999–present
Longitude Festival	Dublin,Ireland	40000	2013–present
Pemberton Festival	Pemberton, British Columbia,Canada	180000	2008–present
Royal Arena Festival	Orpund, Bern,Switzerland	20000	1999–present
Openair Frauenfeld	Frauenfeld,Switzerland	170000	1985–present
Governors Ball Festival	New York City, New York, United States	150000	2011–present
Made in America	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	140000	2012–present
Bonnaroo Music Festival	Manchester, Tennessee, United States	80000	2002–present
Couleur Café	Brussels,Belgium	72000	1990–present
Afropunk Festival	New York City, New York, United States	70000	2005–present
Blockfest	Tampere,Finland	10000	2005–present
Parklife	Prestwich, United Kingdom	70000	2010–present
Dour Festival	Dour,Belgium	225000	1988–present
2x2 Hip Hop Festival	Columbus, Ohio, United States		2015–present
Summer Jam	East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States	50000	1994–present
Lovebox	London, United Kingdom	50000	2002–present
Garorock Festival (pop, rock, electro and techno)	Marmande,France	160000	1997–present
#Plugfest	Silverston,South Africa	45000	2018–present
Southside	Tuttlingen,Germany	40000	1999–present
Big Day Out	Australia	31000	1992–2014
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival	New York City, New York, United States	30000	2005–present
Soundset Music Festival	Minnesota, United States	30000	2008–present
Hip Hop Kemp	Hradec Králové,Czech Republic	20000	2002–present
Rock the Bells	United States	17000	2004–2013
Roots Picnic	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	70000	2008-present
Outlook Festival	Pula,Croatia	15000	2008–present
Lyricist Lounge	New York City, New York/Miami, Florida, U.S.	8000	1991–present
Scribble Jam	Cincinnati, Ohio, United States	7000	1996–2008
Paid Dues	United States	5000	2006–2013
Freaknik	Atlanta, Georgia		1982–2010
DMC World DJ Championships	Thessaloniki,Greece		1985–present
Waga Hip Hop Festival	Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso		1997–present
Hiphopplaya Festival	Seoul,South Korea	25000	2016–present
Coast 2 Coast Music Conference	Miami, Florida, United States	1000	2008–present
B-Boy Park	Tokyo,Japan		1999–present
Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival	Thessaloniki,Greece		2003–present
Jingle Jam	Hartford, Connecticut, United States		2004–2008
Breakin' Convention	London, United Kingdom		2004–present
Hip Hop goes Theatre	Salzburg,Austria		2004–present
Trinity International Hip Hop Festival	Hartford, Connecticut, United States		2006–present
Young London into Music	London,United Kingdom		2009–present
Urban Street Jam	Irvine, California, United States		2010–present
No Major, No Problem^[6]	Los Angeles, California, United States		2015
Dooinit^[7]	Rennes,France		2010–present
Supafest	Australia		2010–2012
Fresh Island Festival	Novalja,Croatia		2011–present
Northern Touch Music Festival	Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada		2017–present
A3C	Atlanta, Georgia, United States		2005–present
WooHah	Hilvarenbeek,Netherlands	32500	2014–present

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^^a ^bEncyclopædia Britannica article on rap, retrieved frombritannica.com: Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (“rapped”) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling (music and sounds extracted from other recordings), is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying (turntable manipulation), graffiti painting, and break dancing.
^AllMusic article for rap, retrieved fromAllMusic.com Archived 2010-10-13 at theWayback Machine
^Harvard Dictionary of Music article for rap, retrieved fromCredoReference
^"Blockfest 2016".Visit Tampere (in Finnish). Visit Tampere Matkailuneuvonta. Retrieved2021-04-19.
^"Hiphop-festivaali Blockfest myytiin loppuun ennätysajassa".YLE (in Finnish). 2 July 2019. Retrieved2021-04-19.
^Sherriffe, Mariah.""No Major, No Problem" gathers musicians to showcase work in Hollywood".Sundial.
^"Dooinit festival – Since 2010".dooinit-festival.com. Retrieved2025-09-16.

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Culture festivals	Freaknik B-Boy Park Breakin' Convention Lyricist Lounge PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival Scribble Jam Universal Hip Hop Parade Urban Beach Week Urban Street Jam Waga Hip Hop Festival
Theater festivals	Hip Hop goes Theatre
Music festivals	DMC World DJ Championships Openair Frauenfeld Big Day Out Blockfest Summer Jam Young London into Music Essence Music Festival Soundset Music Festival Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival Rock the Bells Jingle Jam The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Trinity International Hip Hop Festival Paid Dues Pipefest Supafest Hiphopplaya Festival
Culture	Hip hop culture DJing breakdancing MCing beatboxing hip hop fashion street art hip hop theater
Related events	Block party open mic dance festival music festival jazz festival blues festival electronic music festival pop festival rock festival concert tour

Music festivals

by genre

Folk	Bluegrass Blues Canadian blues Celtic Hawaiian Jazz Maritime World Indian classical Reggae
Classical	Early Bach festival Chamber Choral Experimental Opera
Rock	Free Goth Heavy metal Jam band K-pop Punk rock Squat
Religious	Christian Carnatic Reggae Pow wow
Electronic	Algorave Circuit party Doof Electronic dance Hip hop Industrial Rave Technoparade Teknival Trance

by region

Africa	Nigeria
Asia	Indonesia Israel South Korea Taiwan
Europe	Estonia Italy Netherlands United Kingdom
North America	Antigua and Barbuda Canada United States Chicago Massachusetts
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
South America	Brazil

Hip-hop

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Subgenres

General	Alternative Hipster hop Boom bap Bounce British Road rap Chipmunk soul Chopped and screwed Chopper Cloud rap Comedy Crunk Crunkcore Drill Brooklyn drill Jersey drill Sample drill UK drill East Coast Frat rap Freestyle rap Hyphy Jerkin' Instrumental Latin Chicano rap Lofi Lowend Miami bass Mumble rap Nerdcore Chap hop Political Conscious Progressive rap Religious Christian Jewish Snap music Southern Turntablism Underground
Hardcore	Dirty rap Gangsta rap Mafioso rap G-funk Horrorcore Memphis rap
Trap music	Afro trap Latin trap Phonk Plugg Rage Sigilkore Tread UK trap

Fusion genres

General	Country rap Electro Emo rap Hip-hop soul Hip house Industrial Jazz rap New jack swing Pop rap Psychedelic rap Punk rap Ragga Rap opera Rap rock Trip hop
Rap metal	Trap metal Nu metal
Regional	Afroswing Bongo Flava Boomba music Cumbia rap Genge Hip-hop galsen Hipco Hiplife Igbo rap Kwaito Low bap Motswako Nā mele paleoleo Nuyorican rap Romani hip-hop Songo-salsa Scam rap Stronda Urban Pasifika Vigilante rap Zenji flava

Derivatives

Electronic	Breakbeat Baltimore club Florida breaks Ghetto house Ghettotech Glitch hop Grime Illbient Freestyle Wonky
Other	Funk carioca Reggaeton Alternative reggaeton Samba-rap

Regional scenes

African	Algerian Angolan Beninese Botswana Gambian Ghanaian Ivorian Kenyan Malawian Mauritian Moroccan Namibian Nigerian Port Harcourt Nigerien Senegalese South African Tanzanian Togolese Zambian Zimbabwean
Asian	Armenian Azerbaijani Bangladeshi Burmese Chinese Indian Desi Indonesian Japanese Korean Malaysian Mongolian Nepalese Pakistani Philippine Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thai
European	Albanian Austrian Belgian Bosnian and Herzegovinian British Celtic Scottish Bulgarian Croatian Czech Dutch Finnish French German Greek Portuguese Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Macedonian Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Romanian Romani Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Ukrainian
Middle Eastern	Arabic Egyptian Iranian Israeli Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Arabian Tunisian Turkish Yemeni
North American	United States: East Coast Baltimore New Jersey New York City Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Midwestern Chicago Detroit Minneapolis/St. Paul Milwaukee Omaha Southern Atlanta Memphis Miami West Coast Northwest Alaska Asian American Latin Native American Outside the US: Canadian Cuban Dominican Haitian Mexican Salvadoran
Oceanian	Australian New Zealand Samoan
South American	Brazilian Brasília Chilean Colombian

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