Bonnaroo 2024 Artist Spotlight: Teezo Touchdown

Like we’ve been doing for many years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorite acts from Bonnaroo‘s 2024 lineup. After roaring back to life in 2022, after two years off due to Covid and weather, and feeling fully like its old self again with a great fest last summer, this year marks Bonnaroo’s 21st installment (and 23rd anniversary), boasting not only another great and varied lineup, but also a continuation of some of the big changes and improvements rolled out over the last couple of years, with more flexibility in ticketing and camping, a reimagined “Outeroo” campground area, new activations, and further new ways to Roo. Back once again in its usual June 13-16 timeframe, we’re counting down the days until another great weekend on the farm.

As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a spread of performers spanning across genres and stages, big and small, new and old, to bring you some of the most interesting, lesser-known, and most highly-recommended among this year’s crop of artists. And as our time at ‘Roo approaches, we’ll also be bringing you some special features and full list-style daily lineup guides, to help you plan your weekend ahead of the fest. While these previews won’t span every artist, and might omit some more obvious must-see acts, we hope they’ll serve as a way to help you navigate Bonnaroo’s gargantuan lineup, and to make the most of your busy weekend at the fest!

Grab your tickets right here if you haven’t already, and read on for our Bonnaroo Artist Spotlight!

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One of the most unique and exciting new fixtures in hop hop, Texas born artist Teezo Touchdown might seem like an overnight success, given his hype, major cosigns, features, and tour spots over the last two years, but someone with an ear to the alternative rap scene might’ve noticed just how hard he spent hustling for more than a decade to reach that point. Born Aaron Thomas, the multifaceted artist was exposed to all kinds of music at a young age by his DJ father, influenced not only by rap, but also alt rock, emo, heavy metal, r&b, electronic, and more. As a teen he learned to write and produce his own music, DJ, and film music videos, and spent years making music under varies aliases like AyeTee, TeeKnow, and Teezo Suave, finding some underground and regional buzz, but nothing widespread. By 2016, then in his mid-20s (he’s now 31), Thomas settled on the moniker Teezo Touchdown, and released a couple of early mixtapes, The Example and Cover Boy, both in 2018. It was a string of subsequent singles and video spots, though, particularly 2019’s Panic! at the Disco sampling “100 Drums,” that started to help Teezo garner more attention, and soon major artists like Chance The Rapper and Trippie Redd were shouting him out. From 2020 on, his career has significantly picked up and his artistic identity has really been honed, donning an attention-grabbing style which often features large metal nails dangling from his hair and football style black eye paint, plus a fashion sense that has landed collabs with the likes of Marc Jacobs and Balenciaga. Teezo has also shown up on songs from Tyler, the Creator, Lil Yachty, Travis Scott, and Drake, opened for Tyler and Vince Staples, as well as Scott, on tour, and garnered quite a bit of attention for his 2023 much-hyped debut LP, How Do You Sleep at Night?– featuring Janelle Monáe and Fousheé, and met with a polarizing response, with some praising it as genius, and some critiquing its theatrical, genre-bending excess. An experimental, earnest rapper as much as an off-kilter pop artist with an emo undertone; an in-demand collaborator for some of hip hop’s biggest names; a fiercely individual fashion trailblazier; and a multimedia, multifaceted modern artistic expressionist, there’s no one else quite like Teezo Touchdown making music today, and given the expansive, genre-bending nature of his debut, he has a very exciting career ahead. Don’t sleep on his Bonnaroo debut!

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