Dreamville Festival 2025: The Final Recap
Dreamville Festival concluded its fifth and final outing over the weekend, and Hip-Hop Wired was there to take in all the festivities. As it happens with music festivals of this magnitude, we managed to get a few quick interviews and comments from celebrities while checking out sets in between.
Dreamville Festival 2025 was another sold-out event and brought thousands to the city of Raleigh, N.C. Everyone who touched the stage gave it their all, and the fans showed love to all the acts, whether familiar or not. The outpouring of love was bittersweet to witness, and it was beyond clear that this year’s Dreamville Festival meant the world to J. Cole, the Dreamville artists, and all who performed.
While backstage, we spoke with several media figures, such as DC Young Fly, who was there representing for his 85 South podcast crew along with the Pour Minds crew, Drea Nicole and Lex P, hosting a joint live broadcast powered by Backwoods. Several Dreamville Festival performers sat down on the couch and gave their perspectives and insights, with DC Young Fly, hilarious as ever, chatting with us briefly as they wrapped.
“I really do appreciate Dreamville for having us along with the Pour Minds crew down here and letting us do our thing in their backyard,” DC told us. We then asked DC how seamless the transition from comedy to podcasting was for him.
“I give all credit to that man Karlous Miller for seeing something in me and knowing I could carry the weight. It was pretty smooth because I’m used to talking for a living and trying to be funny, so it just came naturally for me,” DC Young Fly shared.
We spent significant time in the artist lounge area, coming across the likes of the charming Jordan Howlett, better known as Jordan The Stallion, Dee-1, and Julian Delgado of Something Wrong With The Podcast. Everyone we greeted was charming, affable, and humbled to be recognized by their fans and supporters.
In the gallery below, we’ll share a blitz of quick-hit interviews we did with Akia, Kai Ca$h, Niko Brim, Turk of the Hot Boys, and more. We want to thank everyone for being so gracious to us, and best of luck to all in your musical journeys.
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Photo: @dreamvillefest/@theparallelagency
