{"id":216671,"date":"2026-03-12T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:59:08","slug":"hip-hop-legends-the-roots-and-nas-to-perform-at-long-beach-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216671\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Legends The Roots and Nas To Perform At Long Beach Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The Long Beach Amphitheater is still under construction and isn&#8217;t expected to open until the summer, but the venue is already lining up shows by popular artists.<\/p>\n<p>The latest ones are hip-hop legends Nas and The Roots, who announced March 11 that they&#8217;re embarking on a limited four-show run titled <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\/event\/a-great-night-in-hip-hop-nas-%26-the-roots\/tm_vvg1iz_alt1gxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018A Great Night in Hip Hop.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brief tour includes an Aug. 28 show in Long Beach, with tickets going on sale to the public at 10 a.m. March 13.<\/p>\n<p>Joining The Roots and Nas will be another legendary rap crew, De La Soul. All tickets will be sold via Ticketmaster. More information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/a-great-night-in-hip-hop-long-beach-california-08-28-2026\/event\/0B00645AE92B5FA9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Amphitheater<\/a>, an 11,000-seat outdoor venue, is expected to open to the public with a July 11 show by rocker Les Claypool and his band, Primus.<\/p>\n<p>Other acts also scheduled include &#8220;yacht rock&#8221; acts Toto and Christopher Cross on Aug. 14, country star Luke Bryan on Aug. 15, and cumbia band Los Angeles Azules on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 The Long Beach Amphitheater is still under construction and isn&#8217;t expected to open until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-216671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}