{"id":225959,"date":"2026-06-23T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:49:07","slug":"meek-mill-performing-in-philadelphia-on-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225959\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill performing in Philadelphia on July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Philadelphia music legend is set to take the stage at the city&#8217;s free Fourth of July concert.<\/p>\n<p>The city announced rapper and Philly native Meek Mill has been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/wawa-welcome-america-2026-concert-philadelphia-july-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;One Philly Unity Concert&#8221;<\/a> lineup for July 4 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Meek Mill will be featured as a special guest of The Roots, who are also set to bring Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kathy Sledge and State Property on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Aguilera, Jill Scott, Seal and Jordan Davis were announced as fellow headliners last month.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Wanda Sykes will host the show, which will include appearances by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/gillie-da-king-eagles-super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unofficial Eagles hype man Gillie Da King<\/a> and Wallo267.<\/p>\n<p>Doors for the concert open at 3 p.m. and performances start at 5 p.m. The city has not yet released show times for each artist.<\/p>\n<p>Once the show wraps up, fireworks will be set off over the Philadelphia Museum of Art at 11:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration, known in years past as the Wawa Welcome America Festival, wraps up 16 days of events honoring America&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Philadelphia music legend is set to take the stage at the city&#8217;s free Fourth of July concert.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43518,35781,92364,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-225959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america-at-250","tag-ben-franklin-parkway","tag-july-4th","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225959","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=225959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}