2013 was one of the best years for music festivals. Coachella had another knock-out lineup and festivals like HARD Summer and Lollapalooza continued to raise their respective bars from years past. We even got the inaugural TomorrowWorld in Atlanta. With so many incredible festivals and even more insane lineups, we decided to put together a list of some of our favorite hip hop/trap music festival performances of 2013, in no particular order.
Make sure to holler at us in the comments below with some of your favorite performances this year that we might have missed out on.
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Earl Sweatshirt at Coachella
Earl Sweatshirt performed at Coachella in 2013, a performance many fans chanting ‘Free Earl!’ previous years never thought possible. The 19-year-old MC – widely considered the most verbally gifted member of Odd Future – was visibly hyped to perform. Backed by Flying Lotus, Earl’s Coachella set was loaded with special guests including Tyler, the Creator and Domo Genesis. Music festival site Travel Hymns speculates Earl will return to the Coachella 2014 lineup.
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Baauer at Coachella
Baauer dropped an absolutely filthy set on the Coachella crowd in 2013 – even by Baauer standards. His first major performance of the festival season, Coachella foreshadowed the colossal year ahead for the artist. Baauer’s relentless work behind the boards helped prove to casual audiences he was far more than the dude who brought the done-to-death ‘Harlem Shake’ to the world.
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RL Grime at Tomorrowworld
The first installment of TomorrowWorld, an Atlanta, GA offshoot of Belgium’s wildly popular Tomorrowland, was lucky enough to see RL Grime properly represent trap in 2013. Considered the best set of the festival by many in attendance, RL Grime helped open the door to future trap artists looking to set things off at the newly christened festival for 2014.
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Flosstradamus at HARD Summer
Another pioneer in the trap world, Flosstradamus stole the stole with a classic performance on the final night of HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles. Loaded with drops and newly remixed tracks including Kanye’s ‘New Slaves’, J2K and Autobot know how to engage the crowd like no other. Flosstradamus came out swinging, their memorable 2013 performance a cut above the rest.
Hard Summer 2013 – Flosstradamus Live (Los Angeles) – 04-Aug-2013 by || Sh4r3 0r Di3 || on Mixcloud
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Kendrick Lamar – Lollapalooza
One of the biggest highlights at Lollapalooza this year was Kendrick Lamar, fresh off the release of his critically acclaimed album, ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’. Kendrick easily asserted himself as the MC to watch in 2013 with this performance, an accolade he’s justified with his current billing on Kanye West’s Yeezus tour.
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Floss played almost identical sets throughout the summer. Electric Forest, Hard RedRocks, Hard Summer LA, they were all nearly the same for Floss
I gotta say, Floss was a huge let down at Hard Summer for me. They were way too hype and sounded like every other trap act I saw that day
Honorable Mention for some of the sets at the BassPod for EDCLV… Carnage .. Bro Safari.. Crizzly
They suck.
I don't know what you guys are all talking about, Flosstradamus absolutely Killed it at Hard. I honestly had a better time at his set than Dillon Francis' they were both epic but Floss brought in the Trap vibes I was waiting for that entire weekend.
Kelly Kennewick Nicko Laird No surprise Flosstradamus set at Hard made this list. Shit was $$$
The quality for the RL Grime set is outstanding.
Best trap show i saw this year was Mat The Alien at piknic electronik in Montreal. His set had a lot of variation, insane drops, all the summer bangers AND some relatively unknown stuff for the newcomers to discover. To top it all off, the guy does it live and is a master a scratching. What more can you ask for?
Brillz beats all.
his set…..? lol
I love Floss but they keep their sets too routine like and similar and don't DJ by reading the crowd. Heres the best set in my opinion though: https://soundcloud.com/joe-edgerton/club-promotional
Yeah Floss's set doesn't change much venue to venue, but that set was fucking tits. If you think that set was weak, I don't think you know what real trap shit is.