Rolling Loud’s move to Orlando comes with a new roster. The festival revealed the lineup for its 2026 edition on Wednesday (Jan. 14), with Playboi Carti, Don Toliver and YoungBoy Never Broke Again on top and more than 75 artists in all, Billboard reported. It runs May 8–10 at Camping World Stadium and is the festival’s only U.S. date this year, a week after it announced it was leaving its longtime home of Miami, per Pitchfork.
Complex says Toliver headlines Friday, Carti Saturday and YoungBoy closes out Sunday. It is Carti’s sixth time headlining; A$AP Rocky still holds the record at 10, Pitchfork noted, and it is YoungBoy’s first. Toliver, who led the festival’s India edition in November, is preparing his album Octane ahead of the festival.
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The surprise is how far down the poster the future is written. EsDeeKid, fakemink, Destroy Lonely, Feng, Nettspend, Molly Santana, OsamaSon, Che, Nine Vicious and xaviersobased are all on it, alongside veterans like Chief Keef, Sexyy Red and Pooh Shiesty, who is performing after being released from prison, Complex said.
Co-founder Tariq Cherif called it a deliberate statement. “This lineup is a statement,” he said in a release, adding that Carti, YoungBoy and Toliver “each represent different forces shaping hip-hop right now.” His fellow co-founder Matt Zingler said Orlando “felt like the right place to evolve the festival.”
Not everyone was convinced. Complex reported that fans online asked why Florida names like Ski Mask the Slump God and Kodak Black were missing, and why staples like Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby and Future were not on the bill. Cherif addressed it with DJ Akademiks, explaining that the festival made “a conscious decision” to book artists who are appealing to “this new age of hip-hop fan,” naming fakemink, Nettspend, EsDeeKid, OsamaSon and xaviersobased.
If we want to stick around and evolve as a festival, we cannot just give you the same lineup every time.
Tariq Cherif, Complex, citing DJ Akademiks
Rolling Loud’s answer was historical. The festival wrote on X that “people hated on our 2016 lineup too,” a bill that included Carti, Lil Yachty, Young Thug and 21 Savage before they became some of rap’s biggest names, Complex noted. Cherif has not committed to Orlando past this year, saying the festival might move city to city in a Super Bowl-style model.
The Sunday slot changed hands by May, when Ken Carson closed the festival after YoungBoy pulled out.
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