J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival ending in 2025: “What a ride it’s been”

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J. Cole‘s Dreamville Festival is officially ending in 2025, set to take place on April 5 and 6 at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Dorothea Dix Park.The festival made its announcement last night (December 10). “What a ride it’s been… We can’t thank y’all enough for all the memories we’ve shared,” they wrote in a press statement.“From the very beginning, the idea behind the fest was creating a place where our fans, the Dreamville community, could spend time together, a place where they could see themselves reflected, a place to share in experiences.

Let’s run it back one more time in April!”The Dreamville 2025 lineup will be announced early next year – it will also be the festival’s fifth anniversary.

Presale tickets will be released later today at 2pm UK time, or 9am EST, on the festival’s official website here.A post shared by Dreamville Fest (@dreamvillefest)The North Carolina-raised rapper first announced his own music festival back in 2018, but its inaugural edition wasn’t held until April 2019 after the previous year’s event was cancelled due to Hurricane Florence.

This year’s line-up was led by J. Cole, SZA, Chris Brown, and Nicki Minaj.Earlier this year, J. Cole released surprise album ‘Might Delete Later’, which featured a line that responded to the Kendrick Lamar-featured track ‘Like That’.The brief back and forth resulted in an apology from J.