The Roots brought their Roots Picnic festival to Los Angeles for the first time this year in June, and they’ve now announced its return for 2025. Next year’s edition is titled “A Roots Picnic Experience: Class of ’95,” and it happens on June 8 at Hollywood Bowl.

The Roots headline and serve as the backing band for all guest performances, and the lineup also features Lil’ Kim, Redman & Method Man, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Raekwon, E-40, Goodie Mob, Havoc of Mobb Deep, and more to be announced. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, December 11 at 10 AM PT.

“Well: 1995 was our true arrival,” Questlove says. “Nineteen eighty-seven was the Year of the Creative Adhesive, the year that tied together Tariq’s world and my world in high school, and 1991 was the Year of the Green Light, the year we gave ourselves permission to take our resources and passion and pursue our dream. But 1995? That was the Year It All Came Together, the year when our first major release, Do You Want More?!!!??! was sent into the world. Hip-hop was an entirely new ballgame back then, on an entirely new playing field. Those were the days when there were still things like mainstream terrestrial radio, bloated video budgets, and creativity at both the regional and the global levels. Those were the days that produced classic album after classic album, unleashing countless new ideas about art. Those were the days when the world was our oyster. This is the story of those days.”