Minneapolis hip hop duo Atmosphere will headline the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Aug. 23 on a packed bill that also includes Cypress Hill, Lupe Fiasco, the Pharcyde and DJ Abilities.
Tickets are priced from $86.75 to $51.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix or by phone at 800-514-3849.
Rapper Sean “Slug” Daley and DJ/producer Anthony “Ant” Davis released their debut album “Overcast!” in 1997 on Rhymesayers, a record label they founded with Musab Saad and Brent Sayers. The pair broke through to a larger audience with 2002’s “God Loves Ugly,” which was later named as one of the 30 best underground hip hop albums of the 21st century by HipHopDX.
In the years since, Atmosphere has continued to regularly release new music, including their most recent album “So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously,” which Slug has compared to Pink Floyd. Over the past year, Ant has issued three instrumental albums dubbed “Collection of Sounds,” with a fourth on the way.
Beyond the music, Atmosphere is best known for their live shows. They’ve toured heavily since the beginning and started playing with a live band in the early ’00s. From 2008 to 2019, the duo headed up the Soundset Music Festival, which drew fans from around the world to the Metrodome parking lot and, in its later years, the Minnesota State Fair.
The Minnesota State Fair runs from Aug. 21 through Sept. 1. Atmosphere joins the previously announced headliners Old Dominion on Aug. 21, the joint bill of Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls on Aug. 24, the Happy Together Tour on Aug. 25, Def Leppard on Aug. 26 and the Steve Miller Band on Aug. 28.
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