{"id":140716,"date":"2026-03-17T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140716\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:32:24","slug":"jay-z-and-the-roots-to-headline-roots-picnic-2026-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140716\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z and The Roots to Headline Roots Picnic 2026 in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased max-w-[720px] mx-auto mb-5 px-[20px] lg:px-0\"><a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/jay-z\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jay-Z<\/a> is returning to the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased max-w-[720px] mx-auto mb-5 px-[20px] lg:px-0\">On May 30, as announced Tuesday (March 17), HOV and The Roots will headline the 2026 edition of Roots Picnic at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia. In a statement, Shawn Gee\u2014Roots manager and Live Nation Urban president\u2014cited the upcoming performance as a \u201cbucket-list moment\u201d for all involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased max-w-[720px] mx-auto mb-5 px-[20px] lg:px-0\">\u201cAfter meeting with Mayor Cherelle Parker and hearing her vision for Philadelphia 250, she truly inspired us to dream even bigger, and we\u2019re grateful to her, Commissioner Susan Slawson, Jazelle Jones and everyone who helped make it happen,\u201d Gee added in a statement provided to Complex. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see everyone in May at the Plat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased max-w-[720px] mx-auto mb-5 px-[20px] lg:px-0\">This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay-Z is returning to the stage. On May 30, as announced Tuesday (March 17), HOV and The Roots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-140716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}