J. Cole's Dreamville Festival is this weekend. Here are the top hits from this year's lineup

The third installment of Dreamville Festival will take place in Raleigh at Dorothea Dix Park on Saturday and Sunday.

This year, the Dreamville head honcho will be co-headlining the two-day event with megastar Drake. Dreamville Festival’s lineup is a cross-cultural mashup of the world’s greatest musicians across various genres.

Here are the top hits from each artist performing at Dreamville Festival 2023:

• Lil Durk: Known for his emergence from the Chicago drill scene. Durkio’s latest project, “7220" features songs like “What Happened To Virgil." He also makes an appearance on Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later."

• Ari Lennox: The first lady of Dreamville just released the newest project age/sex/location, led by the single “Waste My Time."

• City Girls: The Miami duo is known for hit songs like “Act Up” and “Good Love” featuring Usher.

• Sean Paul: The dancehall icon keeps dancefloors packed with “Get Busy,” “Gimme de Light" and “Like Glue.”

• Earthgang: Spillage VIllage members Olu and WowGr8 are best known for their 2022 release “WATERBOYZ” featuring J.Cole.

• Jessie Reyez: The Canadian singer-songwriter recently released “Forever” featuring 6LACK, who is also on her song “Imported."

• Key Glock: Signed to the late Young Dolph’s Paper Route Empire imprint just released “Glockoma 2” and is currently on tour.

• Sir: The Inglewood native is known for songs like “Hair Down” and “Mood” and just dropped “Nothing Even Matters."

• Lute: Hailing from Beatties Ford in Charlotte, Lute has risen to the forefront with releases like “Gold Mouf” and his verse on “Under The Sun” with J. Cole and another Charlotte native, DaBaby.

• Omen: The Chicago MC signed to Dreamville and is best known for his 2015 release “Elephant Eyes."

• Marqus Clae: Signed to Def Jam, Marqus Clae is a Houston rapper with hits like “Studio Gangsta,” “Are U Ready” and “THE.”

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• Victony: The Nigerian artist is best known for songs like “Apollo” and “Soweto."

• Summer Walker: The Atlanta singer has songs like “Girls Need Love” featuring Drake. Her hit song “Playing Games” featuring Bryson Tiller has garnered 79 million views on Youtube.

• J.I.D.: The Atlanta rapid-fire spitter exhibits his plethora of flows on songs like “Off da Zoinkys," "Surround Sound," “Workin Out” and “Stick."

• Glorilla: The Memphis femcee has ushered in a new wave of female rappers with songs like “F.N.F” and “Tomorrow.” She was nominated for Best Rap Performance at the 65th Grammy Awards.

• Bas: The Queens-bred Dreamville OG just dropped “Blood, Sweat, and Tears” off the "Creed III" soundtrack. The Sudanese musician is also known for songs like “Lit” featuring J.Cole, “The Jackie” featuring Lil TJay, and “Night Job."

• Waka Flocka Flame: Formerly of Gucci Mane’s 1017 Bricksquad label and owner of Bricksquad Monopoly, his songs “O Let’s Do It,” “Hard In The Paint” and his verse on “No Hands” with Roscoe Dash and Wale still get heavy play throughout parties, clubs, and festivals around the world.

• Mario: The Baltimore singer came onto the music scene with his breakout hit “Just A Friend," then followed up with songs like “Braid My Hair,” “Break Up” and “Let Me Love You.”

• Arya Starr: The Nigerian songstress describes her sound as Afrosoul. With songs like “Rush” and “Stability,” Starr shows why she is meant to be on the Dreamville Festival stage this year.

• Baby Tate: Songs like “I Am” featuring Flo Milli and “Hey, Mickey!” help the Atlanta female rapper to stand out as bright as her hair. Baby Tate is the daughter of Dionne Farris from the group Arrested Development, best known for their song “Tennessee."

• Cozz: Signed to Dreamville, the Los Angeles rapper shows he is the perfect fit for Dreamville with songs like "Knock The Hustle” with J. Cole.

• Jordan Ward: Hailing from St. Louis, the R&B singer is making a name for himself with songs like “Lil Baby Crush,” “White Crocs” and “CHERIMOYA."

• Reuben Vincent: One of Charlotte’s latest superstars, Vincent’s song “February 13th” featuring Jamla labelmate Rhapsody is one of the reasons that he was standing alongside Roc Nation Brunch.

• Burna Boy: The crossover phenomenon has garnered international success with smash songs like “Last Last” and “Ye,” which has garnered 228 million views on Youtube.

• Usher: The Atlanta R&B singer has been in the spotlight since the 1990s with hits like “My Way,” “U Got It Bad” and “Love In The Club”. The crooner will be headlining the first day of Dreamville Fest.

• Drake: The 6God has solidified himself as one of the top-selling artists in the world with a massive catalog that includes songs like “For Free”, “Sticky" and “Controlla." He will be co-headlining the second day of Dreamville Fest with the festival’s creator, J. Cole.

• J.Cole: Fayetteville’s hometown hero and the creator of the Dreamville imprint has grown to legendary status with monster releases like “MIDDLE CHILD,” "Power Trip" and his latest offering, “procrastination (broke).” This is his third year hosting and headlining the Dreamville Festival. This year, he is co-headlining with Drake.

Salute to Cole, Dreamville, all the performers, and every activist getting active. Peace.

Rakeem “Keem” Jones is a community advocate and father of three from the Shaw Road/Bonnie Doone area of Fayetteville. He can be reached at keemj45@gmail.com.

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