Another year, another dope Roots Picnic. The 2025 Roots Picnic held at The Mann in Fairmount Park and featured a host of stars, from GloRilla to Jeezy and Lenny Kravitz. Curated by The Roots in partnership with Live Nation Urban, the diverse lineup proved to be an impressively eclectic showcase: from soul to jazz, from hip-hop to R&B, from house to pop, and from Afrobeats to rock.

GloRilla showed why she’s one of the most engaging performers in music during her set. And despite the gloomy weather, neo soul superstar Maxwell (a last minute replacement for D’Angelo) handled things on Saturday night. Musiq Soulchild and Miguel also came with it on Day One. It was Lenny Kravitz’s world on Sunday; as the legendary rocker and Philly’s own Meek Mill closed things out. Kravitz tore through his hits; meanwhile Meek’s set gave the hometown fans plenty to cheer with “Dreams and Nightmares,” and a run of favorites.

Acts like Total and Jagged Edge represented for ’90s R&B groups; and house divas CeCe Peniston and Crystal Waters brought dancefloor classics to the crowd. Tems showed everybody that she’s an absolute star; and Latto continued the girl power energy with her set. King Push was joined onstage by surprise guest No Malice, priming the audience for the new Clipse album coming next month. And 2 Chainz seemed to have one of the more well-received performances of the festival, burning through his 2012 hit “I’m Different.”

And of course, there were The Roots. Black Thought, Questlove, and the whole crew were joined onstage by Rahzel the Godfather of Noise and Philly spoken-word poet Ursula Rucker to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their second album, the beloved Do You Want More?!!!??!

With diverse acts encompassing the soulful to the effortlessly cool, this year’s Roots picnic showed that–even in the rain–it’s possible to get your shine on.