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Lil Wayne, André 3000, Jill Scott, and More to Perform at Roots Picnic 2024

The Roots will back Lil Wayne in a celebration of New Orleans, with Victoria Monét, Gunna, Nas, and Babyface elsewhere on the bill

By Jazz Monroe

February 19, 2024



The 2024 Roots Picnic lineup is here, with top billing for a special New Orleans celebration from Lil Wayne and the Roots, featuring Trombone Shorty, PJ Morton, and others. Jill Scott co-headlines, with André 3000, Nas, Gunna, and Victoria Monét among the other big names. The festival takes place at the Mann in Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, on June 1 and 2.

Among the others set to perform: Sexyy Red, Method Man, Redman, Babyface, Wale, Tyla, Cam’ron, Smino, Scarface and Amerie, Robert Glasper and Yebba, Wallo and Gillie, and Adam Blackstone with Fantasia and Muna Long. Check out the poster below.

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Revisit Puja Patel’s 2013 feature “Bouncing Back: The Street Kings (and Queens) of New Orleans.”