{"id":31399,"date":"2019-08-22T03:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31399"},"modified":"2019-08-22T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:33:44","slug":"wu-tang-clan-to-replace-die-antwoord-at-riot-fest-2019-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/wu-tang-clan-to-replace-die-antwoord-at-riot-fest-2019-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang Clan to Replace Die Antwoord at Riot Fest 2019 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wu-Tang Clan - Method Man (Official HD Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEnwXYJcSZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Big news coming up from the Riot Fest organizers, confirming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/wu-tang-clan-tickets\"><strong>Wu-Tang Clan<\/strong><\/a> will be performing at this year\u2019s edition of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic hip-hop group will hit the stage on Saturday, September 14 in Douglas Park, Chicago. If you want to see them perform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/wu-tang-clan-tickets\"><strong>click right here<\/strong><\/a> to acquire your tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Wu-Tang Clan join the already formidable lineup of this fest which includes the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/blink-182-tickets\"><strong>Blink-182<\/strong><\/a>, The Flaming Lips, Jawbreaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/slayer-tickets\"><strong>Slayer<\/strong><\/a>, Rise Against, Bikini Kill, Ween and many others.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day happening will celebrate its 15<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary and the organizers are now ecstatic to welcome the 2017 alumni who brought a memorable performance three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Wu-Tang Clan are replacing Die Antwoord who have been removed from the lineup after a video surfaced of the group members using homophobic slurs in 2012. Namely, the video shows band member Ninja in a physical confrontation with Andy Butler from Hercules and Love Affair. Also in the video, another Wu-Tang Clan member \u00a5o-landi can be heard using a homophobic slur several times during the altercation.<\/p>\n<p>The band has since explained that the altercation which occurred in Australia was not a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This fight had nothing to with the fact that this guy was gay. We <\/em>dont<em> care about people\u2019s sexual preference. Our DJ and best friend DJ HITEK is gay, and <\/em>alot<em> of people in our crew <\/em>are<em> gay,\u201d<\/em> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>However, in addition to Riot Fest, Die Antwoord have also been dropped from the 2019 edition of the Louder Than Life festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riot Fest 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Show Date and Time: September 13-15, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Show Location: Douglas Park, Chicago, Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news coming up from the Riot Fest organizers, confirming that Wu-Tang Clan will be performing at this year\u2019s edition of the festival. The iconic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31400,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions\/31400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}