T-Pain was one of the most influential hip-hop and R&B artists of the 2000's with multiple hits including Buy You a Drank, I’m N Luv, Bartender, I’m Sprung and his iconic sound that popularised the use of Auto-Tune in the genre. He is a two-time Grammy award-winning, 13-time Grammy-nominated R&B and hip-hop game-changer.

The final headliner is Compton rapper The Game, who can lay claim to some of the biggest rap songs of the mid-2000's - How We Do and Hate it or Love it among them. Juicy Fest will be The Game’s first appearance in New Zealand since 2012 and he cannot wait to return.

“New Zealand, Australia! I’m coming to the Juicy Fest. I’m happy to come back, I’m happy to see y’all finally,” The Game said.

Juicy Fest promoters Glenn Meikle and Matthew Spratt are excited about securing such a high calibre group of artists for Juicy Fest 2024 and say there may be a special guest announcement in the near future that will complement the already impressive line-up.

“We’ve been working really hard to secure a line-up to rival this year’s inaugural festival and I think we have achieved that and then some,” Meikle said.

“We’ve locked in some of the biggest names in R&B and hip-hop from the 1990's and 2000's era and they’re just excited about coming to New Zealand and Australia as we are to be hosting them,” Spratt said.

“This year we have added Christchurch and Wellington to the New Zealand leg of the Juicy Fest tour and Adelaide on the Australian leg to ensure Juicy Fest is more accessible for more people,” Meikle said.

The pair said while they were proud of what had been achieved for the first Juicy Fest, some tweaks had been made behind the scenes to better the Juicy Fest experience for all attendees in 2024.

Among the changes will be the earlier opening of festival gates to better cater to the flow of queues.