The Roots Announce 2025 ‘Class of ’95’ L.A. Picnic With Lil’ Kim, Redman, Method Man, E-40 & More

The Roots are taking it all the way back to ’95. The legendary hip-hop crew and Tonight Show house band announced the line-up for their 2024 Roots Picnic Experience, which will take place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025.

The show, “A Roots Picnic Experience: The Class of ’95,” highlighting a roster of classic acts from the mid-1990s will feature a set from the hosts, as well as performances from Lil’ Kim, Redman & Method Man, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Raekwon, E-40, Goodie Mob, Havoc (of Mobb Deep) and others. The group brought their annual event to Los Angeles for the first time this June, where they were joined by Nas, Jill Scott, Lil Wayne, Trombone Shorty, J. Period, Fantasia and many more for a show titled “Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life.”

Tickets for the 2025 Hollywood Bowl show will go on sale on Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 10 a.m. PT. In the announcement, the group also promised their hometown fans that they shouldn’t fret, they’ll be back home next year for the event that launched in 2007. “DON’T WORRY PHILLY, WE’LL BE BACK FOR YOU IN 2025.”

In a statement, drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson said, “Well: 1995 was our true arrival. 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.”