{"id":207084,"date":"2026-05-31T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:41:13","slug":"photos-jay-z-at-roots-picnic-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207084\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Jay-Z at Roots Picnic in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootspicnic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Roots Picnic<\/a> brought tens of thousands of people to Philadelphia\u2019s Belmont Plateau over the weekend. Despite long wait times to get in, patience prevailed for those who witnessed Jay-Z\u2019s headlining set.\n<\/p>\n<p>In its 18th year, the festival brought out its biggest lineup to date for an <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/roots-picnic-marks-18-years-massive-lineup-jayz-headliner\/19195524\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated 80,000 attendees<\/a> in Fairmount Park. Nearly 30 years after the release of his debut album, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3YPK0bNOuayhmSrs0sIIBR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reasonable Doubt<\/a>,\u201d Jay-Z closed out the first night with Philadelphia\u2019s very own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroots.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Roots<\/a> as his backing band.\n<\/p>\n<p>While Philadelphians packed the festival grounds over the weekend, plenty of people from outside the City of Brotherly Love made the trek, including Kiah VanTull from Brooklyn, New York.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t been to Philly in years, probably since college trips, so it was really nice to see the cityscape,\u201d VanTull said, with the Philadelphia skyline overlooking the festival grounds.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,89808],"class_list":["post-207084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-roots-picnic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207084","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=207084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}