The Roots take it all the way back to '95. The legendary hip-hop crew and Tonight show The house band have announced the line-up for the 2024 Roots Picnic Experience, which will take place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025.
The show, “A Roots Picnic Experience: The Class of '95,” which showcases a catalog of classic performances from the mid-1990s, will include a set from the hosts, as well as performances from Lil' Kim, Redman & Method Man, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Raekwon, E-40, Goodie Mob, Havoc (of Mobb Deep) and more. The group brought their annual event to Los Angeles for the first time this June, where they were joined by Nas, Jill Scott, Lil Wayne, Trombone Shorty, J. Period, Fantasia and more for a performance titled “Hip-Hop Is the The love of my life.”
Tickets for the 2025 Hollywood Bowl show go on sale Wednesday (December 11) at 10am. PT. In the announcement, the band also promised their hometown fans that they shouldn't worry, they'll be back home next year for the event that started in 2007. “Don't worry KISS, I'LL BE BACK FOR YOU IN 2025.”
In a statement, drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson said, “So: 1995 was our real arrival. Nineteen eighty-seven was the year of creative glue, the year that brought together Tariq's world and my high school world and 1991 was the year of the green light, the year we gave ourselves permission to take our resources and our passion and pursue our dream. But 1995? That was the year it all came together, the year our first big release, Do you want more????? sent into the world. Hip-hop was a whole new ball game back then, on a whole new playing field. Those were the days when there were still things like mainstream terrestrial radio, inflated video budgets and creativity both regionally and globally. Those were the days when they produced classic album after classic album, unleashing countless new ideas on art. Those were the days when the world was our oyster. This is the story of those days.”
