This year, HARD Summer is celebrating its 10th anniversary and festival founder Gary Richards aka Destructo is doing it big for the celebration.
The two-day festival, which will be held August 5 and 6 at the Speedway in Fontana, California, features DJ Snake and Rae Sremmurd as headliners for the first night while Snoop Dogg will be performing Doggystyle to close out the weekend.
The Doggfather released the album in 1993 with the classic cuts “Gin and Juice” and “Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None).” Doggystyle was his debut after getting on West Coast anthems “Deep Cover” and “Nuthin But a ‘G’ Thang” with Dr. Dre. After more than two decades in the game, Snoop is preparing to release his Neva Left album in May.
Other Hip Hop acts to grace the HARD Summer stage include Migos, Ty Dolla $ign, E-40, Mike WiLL Made-It, Tink, Egyptian Lover and Skepta fresh off his appearances on Drake’s More Life.
Destructo spoke with HipHopDX last year about the popularity of the festival and how he’s bridged the worlds of Hip Hop and EDM. He recalled making a DJ play while he got cash to pay 2 Live Crew before they would take the stage, among other memories that make HARD Summer special to him.
“It’s just crazy. I never imagined it could be this big,” he shared. “I got a record label, so I used to always make records and then no one buys records, so I was like, ‘I guess I’m just fucking done.’ I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I decided I’d go back to DJing and try to sell concert tickets and started HARD, and then a couple years into it just started going to the studio more trying to make some records. Then the records started catching on and so I wanted to bring in more rap and everyone was like, ‘You got to meet Wax. If you want to do house and rap, then Wax is the dude.’ So we linked up and then a couple years later it just keeps getting bigger. I could’ve never envisioned it being this big but I’m not mad at it.”
Tickets go on sale for 2017’s HARD Summer Friday (April 28).
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If an artist had a music video with Obama in it dressed as a clown, then that said artist points a gun at his head….Would they ever be allowed to go to ANY music festival again? Would they be yelled at by everyone and their mothers?
Exactly. Especially if it was a WHITE artist(evil, evil whites!) doing it to Obama?? Wooooahhh
IDK but Trump has the worst approval rate Jimmy Carter. So that likely had something to do with activity getting a green light lol. Anyway doggy style is one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. It’s the first rap album I ever really listened to. Load the album and let it play. Just about every song go in. Snoop in my top 5. And lol for the Kramer avi
There are plenty of movies that come out to assassinate the president, no difference with music….freedom of speech & if snoop makes you want to kill the president you one dumb MF
Damn, you still not over that yet? People forgot about that shit in like a week.
Eminem has literally poked fun at every president from the last 50 years or more. He said more than once in songs how he wanted to piss on the lawn of the white house. He still does amazing shows for some really big events. Get over it you’re the racist, not snoop, because you cannot see the humor.
Eminem has literally poked fun at every president from the last 50 years or more. He said more than once in songs how he wanted to piss on the lawn of the white house. He still does amazing shows for some really big events. Get over it you’re the racist, not snoop, because you cannot see the humor.
I saw snoop dogg, perform, and doggystyle in the same sentence…that’s it….when I met you last night baybayyyy…b4 ya opened up yo gap…yal know the rest
I had respect for you, ladyyyy, But now, I take it all back.