PHOTOS: Rolling Loud 2023

Nippy and noisy, Rolling Loud kicked off the 2023 festival season as planes flew overhead and the biggest hip-hop festival in the world took over Hollywood Park.

Rolling Loud 2023 brought some of the biggest hip-hop musicians to the stage, with headline performances from Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, and Future and surprise guest performances from industry icons Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber.

The festival returned to Los Angeles for the first time since 2019, after being shut down in 2020 and 2021, and returning to San Bernardino in 2022. This year’s festival was the first to be held on the grounds of So-Fi Stadium.

At the festival, the Black Music Action Coalition hosted panels with industry leaders and musicians. The BMAC also hosted art installations and sold merchandise for charity.

Travis Scott, the headliner on Day 2, returned for the first time as a headliner since the large-scale crowd crush incident that killed 10 people at his Astroworld Festival in 2021.

This year’s Rolling Loud featured numerous basketball courts, a skatepark, a barbershop, a tattoo parlor and numerous carnival attractions for attendees. Rolling Loud plans to return later this year, going to Thailand, Rotterdam, and Germany for the first time.