North American fans of FKA Twigs are not happy. Yesterday (April 4), the “Childlike Things” singer announced her live performances scheduled across the continent have been canceled.
In a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), FKA Twigs revealed she has been forced to drop out of her upcoming festival appearances at Coachella 2025 and AXE Ceremonia 2025 due to ongoing visa issues. FKA Twigs’ remaining Eusexua Tour stops have also been nixed.
“I’m devastated to share the news that due to ongoing visa issues I am not able to see through any of my scheduled tour dates for the remainder of April across north america, including Ceremonia and Coachella,” she wrote. “It pains me to say this because I am so excited to bring you a creation that I have poured my soul into, and I believe is amongst my strongest work.”
She continued: “I know this news impacts so many of you that have already made plans and spent money in order to see these shows. I promise that I am working to reschedule the affected dates as quickly as possible.”
FK Twigs closed the messages with details about refunds and her future performance plans. “For headline shows, please refer to your point of purchase for details and refund information,” she wrote. “Back to you all with more updates as soon as I have them.”
It’s hard to go anywhere in the music world without hearing GloRilla’s name. She’s one of rap’s hottest names who, after a brief period of struggle, found her rhythm again and turned into an extremely reliable hitmaker. GloRilla officially silenced her critics with the release of her highly praised debut album Glorious last fall, but even before its arrival, the Memphis rapper kept the rap world fed with songs that kept people dancing and verses that had the music world talking.
This winning formula is what made GloRilla a perfect addition to the McDonald’s All American basketball game lineup. The Memphis was picked to perform at halftime for the All American games, and ahead of her performance, Uproxx caught up with GloRilla for a quick convo about her experience with sports, making your dreams come true, her debut album Glorious, and her current tour.
With performing at the McDonald’s All American game, I wanted to ask, what’s the best memory — the funniest, wildest, etc. — that you have being at a sports game while you were in school?
I played basketball in high school, and that was the funniest because I sucked. [laughs]
These kids are pretty close to achieving their dreams of making it to the NBA. As a rapper, you understand that idea of making your dreams come true. What would you say is the most important thing to keep in mind when you’re so close to making your dreams come true?
Just keep going.
When you think about that dream of “making it,” what do you wish someone told you about what comes after? In terms of the support, but also the hate that seemingly comes up out of nowhere?
I’m not worried about them. Hell nah, man. I kind of knew that already, but it hit me hard because I wasn’t prepared for my own success. It really just hit me out of nowhere. So yeah, I wish somebody told me, don’t let it get to me. I was already like that, but certain times, I let it get to me.
Has dealing with haters, whether it be ignoring them or finding a silver lining, become easier for you over time?
It’s become way easier because I know they’re just talking. They just get on the internet and talk.
Your debut album Glorious was a star moment in a big run for you, what did it mean for your self-confidence to be able to deliver an album like that after everything you overcame to get to that moment?
I felt victorious and glorious!
You’re almost six months removed from the album coming out, what’s your favorite moment that’s happened since Glorious dropped?
Just seeing how well the fans are taking it in and all the TikToks, videos, and reels that they’ve been using my music with.
If there’s a sport you could have a professional career in, which sport would you pick?
Soccer.
Rap is often referred to as a sport, for better or for worse, and I think that presents a thin line between collaboration or competition. Glorious saw you work with some of rap’s best, and up to today, you still work with big and small artists. What’s the thought process for you with collaboration vs. competition in rap?
It’s no competition. I just do me. It’s just me and what I want, I’m not worried about what’s on the side of me.
You kicked off The Glorious Tour earlier this month, how have you been enjoying that and is there anything different or better compared to other tours you’ve done or been a part of?
I feel like it’s my best tour because I put a lot into it. I got more into my creative bag. I just get better each tour because I just be more hands on each tour.
What’s something you want to accomplish in 2025 that we should all be on the lookout for?
Another great album. I’m working on it right now, so another great one.
Glorious is out now via CMG/Interscope. Find out more information here.
What a week. After Drake dropped his long-awaited “Nokia” video, Rico Nasty followed up with her own video for “On The Low.” Meanwhile, Lil Wayne announced the release of his upcoming album Tha Carter VI, which was followed up by Ken Carson of Opium announcing his own new album, More Chaos.
Meanwhile, new music releases came from Gelo, who officially released the buzzy “Law N Order” after previewing it during Rolling Loud.
Lil Yachty resurrected his Michigan Boy Boat persona alongside Veeze with “Can’t Be Crete Boy.”
Russ released his inner romantic via “April 7,” from his upcoming album Wild.
And Sexyy Red shared her brash new solo single in praise of “Hoochie Coochie.”
Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending April 4, 2025.
Albums/EPs/Mixtapes
Chy Cartier — No Bring Ins
Chy Cartier
A debut that shouldn’t be overlooked, I decided to include Chy’s No Bring Ins off the strength of a cursory listen this week because sometimes, you can just tell someone has something special. Also, there’s a DIRE lack of female voices being elevated in the UK grime/rave/drill scene (by design, or by circumstance, it’s there), so it feels equally important to shine some light on one of the rare voices to carve out space in a space that could really use some wider persepctives.
FattMack — Here To Stay
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With a flow and sound somewhat reminiscent of Lil Durk’s or even Fredo Bang’s, FattMack adds another name to the very short but slowly growing list of rappers to rep Mobile, Alabama. He’s got the pain rap sound pegged, but he’s also deceptively deft with his wordplay. While there’s still plenty of room for improvement, Here To Stay is a solid entry to southern rap’s burgeoning underground and raises the ceiling of expectation for an artist who truly seems interested in living up to his project’s title.
Lou Phelps — Chélbé
Lou Phelps
Kaytranada’s brother has always kind of hovered at the fringes of mainstream rap consciousness, and I’ve always felt this an injustice. You all probably know by now that I love quirky, left-of-center rap that focuses more on bringing fun vibes than proving political points, and with a production sensibility similar to his brother’s, Lou certainly qualifies. You’d think there’s be some kind of halo effect, but even without it, he deserves more — as evidenced by his latest, which incorporates traditional African rhythms, funk, and skating rink disco for a slick dance-rap record that could soundtrack many a sweaty dance floor this summer.
Shoreline Mafia — Back In Bidness
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It’s fascinating to see Shoreline Mafia return older, wiser, and more polished, but just as hedonistic as they were as teens coming up through the South LA underground scene. By reconstituting as a duo, OhGeesy and Fenix get more space to show off as individuals and to indulge their chemistry, which was an underrated and underdisplayed aspect of the group’s early work. There’s also a fun homage to Ying Yang Twins, which gives them a chance to spread their wings creatively — at least, sonically.
Singles/Videos
1999 Write The Future — “Timeless” Feat. The Pharcyde
One of the more intriguing musical projects of the past few years has been 1999 Write The Future, the 88rising-backed collective that seems to be mainly interested in smashing modern musical sensibilities into throwback genre staples, leading to unexpected results. Arriving without very much fanfare, “Timeless” does exactly that, tapping ’90s LA alt-rap staples Pharcyde and pairing them with a borderline Neptunes-ish beat that brings a new dimension to their old-school approach.
Bossman Dlow — “Money Talks”
A short but effective hustler anthem, “Money Talks” kicks off Bossman Dlow’s 2025 in stalwart fashion. While it’s not as explosive as his breakthrough tracks from early 2024, it lays the foundation for another impressive run for the Florida native.
Maiya The Don — “10”
New York drill refuses to die. Maiya The Don breathes new life into the more standard variation of the genre (as opposed to the “sexy drill” purveyed by Cash Cobain), sampling The-Dream’s 2007 hit “Shawty Is A 10” in an On The Radar debut that doubles as a single launch.
Murda Beatz — “Winter’s Over” Feat. Hurricane Wisdom, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
What a lineup. The Canadian producer rarely misses when he crafts beats for his own projects, and smartly taps both a rising star and a genre staple to lend unexpected perspectives to his moody loop. The two rappers trade melodic verses over a woozy instrumental that sounds nothing like their usual backdrops and makes everything sound fresher than you might have thought going in.
Ray Vaughn — “Dollar Menu”
An ode to the survival meals that saw Ray through his upbringing in Long Beach (“last night I had sleep for dinner” punched me in the gut), the TDE newcomer’s latest comes with a menacing beat switch midway through, reflecting the rags-to-riches narrative that has become very familiar, but Vaughn’s clever lyricism carries the concept through to the end.
For a second consecutive week, the Uproxx Music 20 column stays in the Bel-Air as we shift our attention to another one of the many actor-singers on the show. Los Angeles native Jazlyn Martin plays the role of Jackie on Peacock’s Bel-Air. There, she plays a street-smart South LA native who sees Will for the Philly hooper he is at heart, rather than the Bel-Air transplant that he is often asked to be. In her music, Martin is a sweet soul with the emotional maturity to beautifully, succinctly articulate her feelings in romance from the honeymoon phase to heartbreak. Even outside of love, Martin’s transparency with personal experiences and societal challenges makes for records that resonate.
The most complete display of Martin’s artistry lives on her debut EP Identity Crisis. Released in August 2024, Identity Crisis captures an emotional and introspective musical journey as she bares it all while looking within. “Fruit” takes aim at the inconsistent messages directed at women about their value while “In This Bed” dives into the struggle of being vulnerable in a world that sees little value in anything below strength and resilience.
The next step in Jazlyn Martin’s career comes in the form of her new single “Easy.” The record is a haunting presentation of the moment love stops being effortless. Its matching visual refuses to hide the pain and frustration entwined in Martin’s lyrics as she mourns the love she once near through emotionally and physically bare tugs and pulls with an unrequited partner. The tension is inescapable as the viewer is forced to empathize with Martin’s unfulfilled pleas for more.
With “Easy” out now, we placed Jazlyn Martin under the Uproxx Music 20 spotlight to learn more about her influences, inspirations, and aspirations. Scroll down to discover the best of Jazlyn Martin.
The earliest memory of music I’d say is watching my dad fall in love with music. He had a home studio in our garage, and so I’d watch him produce his own music and record himself. I remember I recorded “And I Am Telling You, I’m Not Going” in there.
Who or what inspired you to take music seriously?
This answer isn’t as simple as I thought, but I always had such a strong support system between my family and friends, and they ingrained such a strong belief that I could do it. I’ve always had a very strong sense of determination and trust, but my family and friends really propelled me to do it seriously.
Do you know how to play an instrument? If so, which one? If not, which instrument do you want to learn how to play?
Yes, I play the guitar and the piano, and a bit of the bass.
What was your first job?
My first job was as a waitress at Meli Café in Chicago when I was 17.
What is your most prized possession?
My faith.
What is your biggest fear?
The absence of God… and not living out my purpose he was instilled within me.
You get 24 hours to yourself to do anything you want, with unlimited resources: What are you doing? And spare no details!
Well, with everything I’d want to do, there’d have to be absolutely no traffic on this day. First, I’d want to start off the day well rested and early. I’m not really a morning person, so I strive to be and always feel so much more productive when I start early. I’d do my morning pages and order breakfast in, then I’d go to a Pilates class, I always feel good once I’ve worked out. I’d want to go learn and try a new activity like archery or maybe go to a nearby farmer’s market. I would love a lunch picnic with Pura Vita food. I love the beach and love to swim, so a little paddle boarding would be great. I’d get dinner at Crossroads, one of my favorite vegan spots, and lastly go to a Jazz nightclub for live music.
What is the best song you’ve ever made?
Okay, I really love “Perfect” and I’d say another song that is not released yet, which is “Goodbye.”
What’s a feature you need to secure before you die?
Geez, there’s a couple but I’m really into Mk.gee right now.
If you could appear in a future season of a current TV show, which one would it be and why?
Abbott Elementary. It’s hilarious and it creates such a beautiful space for humans to be weird and awkward and themselves. I love how its comedy is rooted in real life situations, which makes it even funnier.
Which celebrity do you admire or respect for their personality, and why?
I’d say Denzel Washington. I greatly admire his work of course but most importantly his character. His bold, empathetic and wise. He speaks with such grace and humility and his actions follow through to that. He is a man of God, and is constantly giving back to the community, not just through his art.
Share your opinion on something no one could ever change your mind about.
Cancel culture is silly. People better hope they’re deepest flaws aren’t worldly announced and get discarded in the time where they need connection the most. I’m all for accountability and justice, so don’t get me wrong, but it’s love that truly heals, not judgement. Everyone is redeemable.
What is the best song you’ve ever heard in your life, and what do you love about it?
“A Song For You” by Donny Hathaway. The lyrics, his tone, the melodies, the pain and sorrow you hear in his voice. It’s truthful and that’s hard to come by.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s a city you’re excited to perform in for the first time?
Los Angeles because it’s home! I’m very excited to perform in London!
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location where it would be held.
What would you be doing now if it weren’t for music?
I would be a Marine Biologist or doing something in bio psychology.
If you could see five years into the future or go five years into the past, which one would you pick and why?
Oh man, I’d go five years into the past. I think it would be a nice reminder that everything is going to be fine. And honestly, I’d like to see how far I’ve come. It’s so hard to remember and celebrate the small wins in an industry that’s constantly moving onto the next thing. I’d love to see younger Jaz and imagine how proud she would be with the next 5 years. The future can stay as a surprise, I don’t want to know, it takes all the fun away.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Live at home for as long as you can. It’s rough out here sis.
It’s 2050. The world hasn’t ended, and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
I’d like it to be remembered as honest and real. I want to give people something to feel, music that helps heal, love and share joy. A sense of escapism but also freedom. The duality of making music for myself while being of service to others, to share and uplift the human experience.
Reacher‘s third season has now come to a bone-crunching end with another season already renewed. Alan Ritchson’s Big Guy finally defeated Oliver Ritchers’ Bigger Guy (although Ritchson did get knocked unconscious in the process), and now, the wait will begin for Neagley, but there’s much more coming from Alan Ritchson outside of Lee Child’s skull-crunching universe.
Have you seen his IMDb page full of upcoming projects?
His lack of calendar white space is evident, but the important thing to note right now is that, beyond Ritchson’s Reacher physicality, he is always in on the joke, and sure, his recently displayed humor is of the dry variety, but he is nonetheless capable of being broadly funny. And although he will star in several upcoming movies, including War Machine and Motor City, Ritchson will also go back to his former comedic stomping grounds. Let’s talk about what’s in the works for more Blue Mountain State.
Plot
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Back in the early aughts, Blue Mountain State ran for three seasons on Spike TV (which has evolved into Paramount Network and the home of many Taylor Sheridan shows). Creators Eric Falconer and Brian Robbins followed up the show’s run with a kickstarter-funded movie, 2016’s Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (also from Falconer and Robbins), revolving around Ritchson’s Thad Castle losing his drafted NFL status after senior-year partying devolves into lasting chaos. Distributed by Lionstage, the movie seemingly ended with finality after the demise of Thad’s budding football career and the explosion of Goat House. However, Thad somehow lived and even surfaced with a mojito, so an opening was always there for more.
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Well? Ritchson revealed that a fourth season is happening, and this sounds like a direct result of Reacher‘s Prime Video success.
“We’re actually setting it up with Amazon,” he divulged, according to Deadline. “We are going to make a fourth season happen; I’m trying to work it into my schedule. Honestly, I think it’s going to be the best season of BMS we’ve ever had. It is so damn funny, and it’s perfect, the way we resurrect the characters and bring them into the way that things are now.”
Actual plot details remain a mystery, so let the speculation begin on how Thad gets the gang back together, maybe for Goat House 2.0 or even 3.0 at this stage. Key cast members, however, are already on board.
Cast
Varsity Pictures/Lionsgate Television
Darin Brooks (as Alex Moran) and Chris Romano (as Sammy Cacciatore) are already confirmed to return, and clearly, these dudes are well-past college years, or are they? We shall see. The jury also remains out on whether we’ll see other original cast members including Denise Richards (as Debra) return.
Release Date
Ritchson didn’t detail when filming might begin, but since his schedule is packed, we can assume that when production begins, Amazon will want to stream this as soon as possible to further capitalize upon Reacher mania.
Trailer
If you haven’t lived the unbridled joy of Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland, a flashback can be found below.
The Handmaid’s Tale has managed longevity and the extension of Margaret Atwood’s subject matter in the face of, well, everything. The top-of-the-crop Hulu series debuted in 2017 and is ending in 2025, and it doesn’t require too much stretching to see where the first and sixth seasons have bookended themselves against our current times. Frozen bank accounts were only the beginning of the horrors awaiting June, and this universe will also continue with the in-the-works The Testaments, which is being helmed by The Handmaid’s Tale‘s longtime showrunner, Bruce Miller.
Soon, June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) will begin moving their respective chess pieces toward an endgame for the flagship show. The pair has been open about how this final season will largely focus on their evolving and devolving relationship, but also, the show has made clear that the “red” of the handmaids’ hooded robes will symbolize rage amid the revolution. So, you’ll want to know when new episodes will be available and if Hulu is going for binge format.
Will The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Premiere All At Once?
Nope. Hulu will premiere the sixth season on Tuesday, April 8 with three episodes. From there, new episodes will land weekly until the May 27 series finale.
If you want to watch the entire season at once, that will require waiting until the finale. Given the spoilers that will fly on the Internet, choose your battles carefully here.
The sixth season incites that “June’s unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead” while “Luke and Moira join the resistance.” Meanwhile, “Serena tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought.” From there, June’s actions will “highlight the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.”
The final season cast includes Madeline Brewer, O.T. Fagbenle, Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley, Amanda Brugel, Josh Charles, Sam Jaeger, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, and Ever Carradine, and a trailer is available below.
Dreamville may not officially kick off until this weekend, but things in Raleigh, North Carolina are already popping off. Leading up to what will be the final year of the festival, several pop-ups and exclusive events are being hosted throughout the city that are notable not just because they are great places to pre-game before the weekend, but because they allow for early access to one of Dreamville’s best pieces of merch — the Festival Brew.
What’s better than merch from the last Dreamville Fest ever? Merch that you can drink!
For every year that Dreamville has been a thing, it has been a tradition that the festival sell a hyper-exclusive small-batch locally crafted beer. The brew serves as both a collectible and a totem of North Carolina pride. Dreamville has always been a festival with deep connections to the state (J. Cole is a Fayetteville native) and the festival brew, with its collaboration with local brewers like R&D Brewing, Foothills Brewing, and this year, HAZE, is the perfect icon of homegrown craft.
We spoke with Adrian Larrea, a longtime Raleigh resident, beverage entrepreneur, and one of the creative forces behind Dreamville’s Fest Brew to talk about the origins of the tradition, the inspiration behind this year’s brew, (spoiler: it’s a Strawberry Lemonade Shandy), and what the future holds as Dreamville comes to a close.
So how did the Dreamville Festival Brew become an annual thing?
I first met Adam Roy, one of the founders of the festival, through some mutual friends in Downtown Raleigh. In 2018, when they were going to run the very first Dreamville, Adam reached out to me because he knew I was in beverage, and asked, “Hey, what could we do that is cool, different, and unique for the festival?”
That year I was running a kombucha company at the time. We had made Kombucha Pale Ale as a trial thing to see how people liked it. I had a big batch of it that was going to be getting done right around the time of Dreamville, so I said, “Well, what if we did some custom Dreamville cans and we did a custom beer for you guys?”
So we built the first can design, it had the date and everything, then that festival got canceled because of a hurricane, and so we had to drink a lot of those beers. The rest of them got scrapped. We couldn’t reuse them because it was the only year that we put the specific date on the can. We learned our lesson after that. Don’t ever put the specific date on your event can!
When that festival got moved to 2019, Adam hit me up again and asked me, “Hey, are we running back The Fest Brew?” And I was like, “Let’s do it.”
And so we did a Kombucha Pale Ale. They hit all the concession stands in the beer tent and all of them were gone before it got dark. Everybody got in line for it. It was a piece of merch, it was a piece of history. It was a really cool beer that you could only try that one day. And so it sold out, crazy, crazy fast.
The next year we were going to have the festival and then COVID happened, so we got delayed.
So in 2022 we did another brew and it kind of turned into a thing for Adam and I. We came up with all of these different concepts just to have fun with it, and it started to turn into: what’s the branding going to be of the festival this year? How do we tie in the stage names? How do we get artists to promote it? It started to be really fun. That year EARTHGANG actually took a picture with one of the cans and he posted it.
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When did it feel like the festival brew program was really becoming a phenomenon?
The third Dreamville we partnered with R&D Brewing in Raleigh and they made an orange creamsicle flavor. It was so delicious and everybody just loved it so much. That year people started posting that they were drinking these beers on the beer drink review sites. And we also threw an intro party with R&D where we had a DJ come and spin, and we posted it out there as a release party and all these Dreamville fans from all over the country, all over the world started showing up for that party and people were coming to us and they’re like, “Hey, just to let you know, we’ve been collecting the brews for the last couple of years. We go to a lot of different festivals and nobody has this kind of program and we just think it’s so cool, please keep doing it.”
It really hit for us that people were really following the program and what we were doing. That year we started tying in some local bars and some local bottle shops, and there were some pre festival events and the festival had moved to the two-day model. Last year we did the Rise and Shine Ale, which was our attempt at a dark and stormy liquor drink. It had vanilla and lime and it was a little bit darker than anything that we had done before. Super funky and different and a little bit almost beer snobbish. We went really in that direction and again, people showed up.
Can you take us into this year’s Strawberry Lemonade Shandy?
When news came out that this was going to be the fifth and final Dreamville, Adam and I, we got together and we decided what we wanted to do.
I had started a new beverage brand called HAZE. We are a THC infused soda and energy drink company out of North Carolina. We were originally thinking how cool it would be to do a THC drink for the festival, but we decided to just keep this a beer program since we had done it for four years and this was going to be the final. But we had a flavor from our company, Lifted Lemonade. It’s like this strawberry lemonade flavor.
And we were like, “Well, what if we did a strawberry lemonade Shandy?” It was light, it was bright, it had an influenced by HAZE type vibe to it, but not a THC drink, just normal beer. We partnered with Foothills Brewing Company, these guys have been known for 25 years in North Carolina. They’re in Winston-Salem. So we started taking flavors from HAZE and different beer styles that Foothills knew how to make, and we were blending it all together trying to figure out how to make a funky lemon shandy.
And we nailed it.
And so it’s really cool to see everything coming together for this fifth and final year. And this year we’re actually going to have them at the pop-up, which is this really cool merch program that they do with special exclusive merch.
But the excitement is there, people are already asking for it by name. People are calling it “Fest Brew.” We actually trademarked “Fest Brew” because we thought that this is something that maybe we could work with other festivals to do or figure out a way to take this concept even further. But our roots will always be with Dreamville. That’s what Dreamville is all about about. It’s about figuring things out. It’s about discovering things.
The Dreamers and Dreamville brand that they’ve built, all the artists that they bring in every year that are part of the Dreamville label, it’s all just so cohesive and it’s so well done. The brand is all intertwined into everything. The artists are all intertwined, the drinks are intertwined, the merch is all intertwined. It’s a big incredible story and adventure.
When did you come up with the idea to make a new brew for every festival?
We wanted to do something different every year. But a Kombucha Pale Ale or Kombucha Sour, nobody had even heard of that. So we didn’t even know how it was going to be received, but it just sparked the creative experimental vibe, and I think that that’s what we’ve carried through for the five years, asking “how do we be experimental and how do we be different and how do we make sure we bring the brand and that year’s branding into the fold every year while also keeping it North Carolina?”
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How important was keeping the production process local?
J. Cole is from Fayetteville, and we all have family and friends that’s spread out through North Carolina. It just so happened that we could keep things in Raleigh for years because Raleigh has so much going on. It has so many different breweries and so many different groups to work with. The focus with the program was how do we keep everything North Carolina, how do we keep ingredients North Carolina? How do we do everything that we possibly can in North Carolina?
That’s a absolutely huge part of it because people come to this festival to know what is happening in Raleigh. The amount of economic growth and support that Dreamville brings to Raleigh and the Greater Triangle and to North Carolina every year with people flying in from all over the world to come here, spend money here, support our businesses and our bars and our breweries and our restaurants and our clubs and our hotels and everything, it makes a huge economic impact.
So it was a really big part of the program.
This might be a tough question for you, but do you have a personal favorite festival brew?
The one that resonates as being the most true to my heart was the first year that we did it, because it was just so new and it was so different. It was super experimental. Then I’d say second favorite year is probably this year. Bringing HAZE into the mix is kind of like a dream come true. To be able to tie my brand in, how big Dreamville’s gotten, and for it to all be connected together is just beautiful.
And then my third favorite would be the Dreamsicle Orange Cream. We just nailed it so well. It was like a sun-kissed root beer float with vanilla ice cream. It was just so balanced and delicious. So I’d say those are my favorite three. But I actually just tasted this beer for the first time since it had been packaged and I mean, it’s really good. So people are going to really, really enjoy it this year.
Because the brews have kind of a cult following and this is the last Dreamville, are there any plans to do a collector’s edition of all five or offer them outside of the festival? Or are these just forever locked to Dreamville?
They are locked to Dreamville, but “Fest Brew” as a concept might not be locked to Dreamville. We would love to figure out a way to work with other festivals to be able to create cool custom programs. It adds such a vibe and it’s such a cool thing and has the potential to create a cult following that it would be silly to just let it go. But if it does and it was just this five year run, I’m really happy that I got to be a part of it.
What’s the game plan going to Dreamville this year? What do you suggest we do first and how many Strawberry Lemonade Shandys are we drinking?
Well, it depends if you’re just going to the two-day festival or if you’re coming for all the events. Because the pop-up shop started Wednesday in Downtown Raleigh, and then Friday is a whole day of events. We’re going to be at the CAM center.
How many you drink is on you, but I think that over the course of the whole festival, everybody’s going to be drinking three, four, five, six of them or at least until they run out. That’s one thing everybody needs to keep in mind: if everybody goes absolutely HAM for them in the first day of the festival, there might not be any left for the second day!
It’s Coachella month, and among the acts heading out to the desert in a couple weeks is Jessie Murph (who’s performing on the 13th and 20th). She’ll have some new music to bring to the festival stage, too, as today (April 4), she shared a fresh single, “Gucci Mane.”
The track interpolates Mane’s “Lemonade” and it sees her flexing her country storytelling abilities, starting the first verse, “I’m from Alabama, I’m ’bout 4’11” / I’ve got a sh*tty father and I’d like to go to Heaven / Internally, I’m scrappy, but I’m afraid to fight / I prefer to keep my hoops in. so I stay in at night.”
A press release teases that Murph has “a whole lot more to come” “very soon.”
In a 2024 interview with Uproxx, Murph described when she first got a big reaction to her singing, saying, “I think I was 11, and I posted a video on YouTube of me singing ‘Titanium,’ and I remember it got like 24,000 views. I remember being so freaked out and excited about that. I think that was the first moment that I was like, ‘Whoa, I could really do this if I work hard enough.’ I always wanted to be a singer, but growing up, especially in Alabama, everybody’s like, ‘That is not realistic.’”
Unfortunately, all good things eventually come to an end. This weekend, that most definitely applies to J. Cole’s beloved annual outdoor event, Dreamville Festival. After five years, the “Port Antonio” rapper’s hometown program will say goodbye and do so with a group of pre-festival events, which of cource includes the highly anticipated multi-day festival.
Today (April 4), Dreamville organizers shared the weekend’s set times, which include when headliners Lil Wayne with Hot Boys & Big Tymers, Erykah Badu, Tems, 21 Savage, and J. Cole will take the stage.
Continue below to view the set times for the final edition of Dreamville Festival. All times are p.m. and ET, and set times are subject to change.
Dreamville Festival 2025 Set Times For Saturday, April 5, 2025
Rise Stage
01:30–01:50 p.m. — Omen
02:30–03:00 p.m. — Ab-Soul
04:00–04:30 p.m. — Bas
05:30–06:00 p.m. — Ari Lennox
07:00–07:30 p.m. — Ludacris
08:40–09:25 p.m. — 21 Savage
Shine Stage
01:10–01:25 p.m. — Kai Case & Niko Brim
02:00–02:20 p.m. — Lute
03:15–03:45 p.m. — Young Nudy
04:45–05:15 p.m. — Chief Keef
06:15–06:45 p.m. — Keyshia Cole
07:45–08:30 p.m. — PartyNextDoor
09:35 p.m. — Lil Wayne with Hot Boys & Big Tymers
Dreamville Festival 2025 Set Times For Sunday, April 6, 2025
Back in 2002, at the height of his battle with Benzino, Eminem declared in his diss track “Nail In The Coffin,” “Nobody wants to hear their grandfather rap.”
Well, he’d better hope he was wrong, because he’s officially entered grandfatherdom with the birth of his daughter Hailie Jade‘s first son, Elliot Marshall McClintock (aw, he’s named after pop-pop). Hailie announced her son’s birth on social media two weeks after his actual birthday, March 14, posting a photo of the baby snuggled up in a cute onesie with a corkboard revealing his name and birthdate above him.
Of course, Em probably isn’t sweating his prior prediction too much; while he’s only a year removed from his last full-length release, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), it seems unfathomable that his fans wouldn’t want to hear new music from him should he decide to follow-up with a new album this year.
They would probably especially love it if Em delivered on the speculation that he and 50 Cent would release a joint project at some point in the future. Last year, he agreed of the rumored project, “That would be great. I think we just gotta stop bullsh*tting and just do it.” 50 also expressed his approval, writing on Instagram, “Looks like I’ll be back in the booth after all ! Just gotta do this residency in Vegas first.”
For now, the rap icon seems to be focused mainly on bringing a WNBA franchise back to his hometown while clearing up some legal issues regarding his biggest hit.
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