Rapture Festival, a new but yet to be confirmed national touring hip hop festival, looks to be heading Australia’s way early next year, featuring rap heavyweights Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
Noted Aussie promoter AJ Maddah is supposedly the man behind the new Rapture Festival that is expected to hit Australian shores in February 2014.
Maddah has played a significant role leading the Soudwave, the cancelled Harvest, Warped Tour and Big Day Out festivals. After initially saying he’d never work on a hip hop festival, Maddah spilt the beans in early September when he responded to a fan on Twitter about his plan to bring Eminem over for Rapture Festival after failing to secure the 41-year-old for the heavy music festival Soundwave.
Another piece of substantial evidence was uncovered over the weekend when Project U posted an image of a poster circulating around Brisbane plugging the event featuring the two aforementioned headliners plus J.Cole, Chance The Rapper, 360 and Action Bronson.
The Rapture Festival would mark a welcome change of pace for Australia’s hip hop scene. Three major events have already been cancelled in 2013- Supafest (50 Cent, T.I, Akon, NE-YO) was postponed shortly before the festival was set to kick off before making news in recent months for its massive debt troubles, regional rap festival Urban Vibe (Soulja Boy and J-Kwon, Scribe) was cancelled on the day of the event while the Nas-led Movement festival suffered a similar fate.
Expect more news in the coming weeks.
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