Rolling Loud Miami
The Miami edition of the world-spanning hip-hop festival that started it all.
Rolling Loud Miami is an international hip hop music festival established in 2015. According to Complex, it is "one of the biggest festivals in the world," while Billboard called it "the be-all of hip-hop festivals." In 2019, an estimated 210,000 people attended the event in Miami. The festival was founded by Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, who met in elementary school in Hollywood, Florida.
Quick Facts
- Event type
- Major Music Festival
- Location
- Miami, Florida
- Genre focus
- Hip-Hop
Lore & Background
The first Rolling Loud took place in Miami in July 2015 and featured artists such as Schoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky in a one-day event at Soho Studios in the Wynwood district. The venue was temporarily flooded during the event due to rain. In 2016, the festival was held at the larger Mana Wynwood convention center and featured Ty Dolla $ign, Young Thug, and Future as headliners. In 2017, Rolling Loud moved to Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami. Since 2018, it has been hosted at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. In 2021, Rolling Loud hosted a post-pandemic festival in Miami with an estimated 200,000 attendees, including a collaboration with WWE that featured a ring and promotional segments, though SmackDown was not broadcast live from the main stage.
Reader's Guide
Rolling Loud Miami is the flagship edition of the festival, held annually since 2015. The event typically takes place over a weekend, with the 2020 edition originally scheduled for May 8-10 but rescheduled to July 23-25, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival features multiple stages and a lineup heavily focused on hip-hop. Notable headliners have included Future, Ty Dolla $ign, Young Thug, and others. The 2021 edition drew more than 200,000 attendees. In 2023, Rolling Loud teamed up with the City of Miami Gardens and Rick Ross to gift eight scholarships to graduating high school seniors from Miami Norland and Miami Carol City Senior High Schools. Also in 2023, Rolling Loud hosted a panel discussion with the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) in support of their Restoring Artistic Protections (RAP) Act initiative on the first day of Rolling Loud Miami, featuring co-founder Tariq Cherif, BMAC co-founder Willie “Prophet” Stiggers, Congressman Hank Johnson, and Congressman Jamaal Bowman.
Did You Know?
- In 2017, Lil Uzi Vert stage-dived into the crowd from a two-story scaffolding at Rolling Loud Miami.
- XXXTentacion's last ever live performance was at 'The Joint' in Las Vegas on June 10, 2018, not at Rolling Loud Miami.
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