Jay Z announced today (April 16) that Budweiser Made In America is set to have a two-day music festival in two cities this year, a first in the festival’s three-year span. Both cities will have the Budweiser Made In America fest take place on the same dates, August 30-August 31.
For the first time since the festival began, Jay Z’s Budweiser Made In America music festival is slated to be held in Los Angeles’ Grand Park, which Jay Z addressed at the press conference.
“I’m puttin’ together a music festival that blurs those lines of genre,” Jay Z says. “All walks of life and all people can come and it’s in the city. It’s not in some far off place that you can’t get to. No disrespect to any other festivals. No shots. But in the middle of the city, look how beautiful this park is. It’s accessible to everyone. It’s inclusion. It’s not exclusive. It’s not something that’s far away…We started two years ago in Philadelphia and had huge success and I’m sure we’ll have even more success in Los Angeles.”
The event is also scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Ben Franklin Parkway.
Tickets for the two-day event in Los Angeles are available on Ticketmaster for $155. Tickets for the Philadelphia event are on sale for $117.
The event’s Los Angeles date was subject to criticism, as reported today. Councilman Jose Huizar has warned that this event, which expects more than 50,000 attendees, could be “a nightmare” for downtown Los Angeles residents due to various street closures and beer sales scheduled to take place the day of the event. Huizar reportedly said those concerns are being ironed out, according to Fox.
An image of Jay Z at the press conference is below, as published by Gerrick D. Kennedy, a music journalist for the Los Angeles Times.
Video of the press conference is available below via Fox.
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lip licking House Negro, uplift the race!
For saying this since your family can’t uplift you with manners and food to silence your hungry, low mentality, black clouded score. Your family name will forever remain nameless. Hov!
with the 50 cent type beefs ppl belivieing others are after others are greater than 90s cause of wat is shown
90s was just sense of fight at club or maybe 1 or 2 verbal beefs useing verses
useing verses on songs
very rare r and b singers beef ussually they just sing
or pop singers
but when verses are thrown in with rappers wth out knowing they could be some trouble
specially dealing with jay z .and fake pics fake preformers being used an threats
What in the actual fuck are you talking about
Rozay gonna get him a deal on police security.
Tell em why u don’t drink cristal no more nikka, Pun hit you over the head with that!
They always think is by bin stupid, by power or retard guns they carry n reduce them selves… I put it to y’all wanna be homo hardcore, do better than Hov dats how u put my statement wrong.
Que?
Momma’s youngest and strongest, survived summers like saunas
Mastered a corner like Deion in his uniform
Pop hurtin assertive, flirted with death
Damn near murdered before my first album hit the shelf
Grandma’s favorite, she could not understand
How there’s people in the world who wouldn’t want me as a neighbor
Has to explain to her, you think these folks want me in the penthouse
As a reminder that I make top paper?
Black entrepeneur, nobody did us no favors
Nobody gave us shit, we made us
The Rap Pack, I’m Sinatra, Dame’s Sam Davis
Big’s the smart one on the low like Dean Martin
We came in this game, not beggin niggas pardon
Demandin y’all respect, hand over a check
And while y’all at it, hand over the jet
We the reason they ain’t hand over Def Jam so quick
They knew every year I was droppin new product
I was raisin the stock up, while buildin the Roc up
But that’s alright, cause they knew they had to see us
When it was time for us to re-up, make us multi-million-ires
Je-je-jeah!
I Did It My Way—Jay -Z
Jay Z is the only rapper with that true flow and lyric, every other rapper just put words together for ignorant people and put their life, fact and truth out of those words they make up for these black lames
Hov’s lyrics are Diamond to get them you have to dig deep only then you can find.
This why Jay z got all that paper. he a business he know where the money at. He know he bring a show to the second biggest city in America it gon bring in the money. Not to many rappers have the business skills hov got thats why he on his way to a billy.
155 bucks for a ticket and 10-20 dollar beers is nowhere near inclusive to every walk of life.
This spells doom for wack ass Rock the Bells
no it don’t
I think Rock the Bells was doomed a long time ago. The same promoters didn’t even have their Paid Dues festival, which they have done since 2006.