So, Bonnaroo Loves Rap Music Now: Kanye West, Ice Cube, Lauryn Hill, and More to Play the Festival

Every June, thousands upon thousands of upon thousands of drunk and high music fans wearing too much facepaint and not enough clothes ascend on the fields of Manchester, Tennesse to get even more drunk and even more high and wear even less clothes while they listen to a bunch of good music at Bonnaroo. Traditionally, the festival hasn't featured too much variety outside of those who know the words to every Dave song (and those who know what band "Dave" is), but this year, shouts to the festival programmers for widening their scope.

Even though dude showed up almost eight hours late for his last Bonnaroo performance—the nice folks have welcomed back Kanye West. Alongside Elton John and Jack White, he'll headline.

Of course, my immediate response to this is, holy shit, Elton John and Kanye West are going to do "All of the Lights" together. But what's more is the programmers have apparently been reading a lot of Noisey, because on top of Yeezy, some of our favorite rappers will be taking the stage, like Ice Cube, Lauryn Hill, Pusha T, A$AP Ferg, Danny Brown, and Chance the Rapper.

See the full list of performers below, and to celebrate this wonderful occasion of Kanye's return, here's a playlist of the set at the Yeezus tour's recent Prudential Center stop.

Tickets for the festival, which runs June 12-15, are on sale Saturday, February 22 at noon EST via bonnaroo.com.

Kanye West
Elton John
Jack White
Lionel Richie
Vampire Weekend
The Avett Brothers
Phoenix
Skrillex
Arctic Monkeys
Frank Ocean
The Flaming Lips
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Kaskade
Damon Albarn
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wiz Khalifa
SuperJam with Skrillex & Friends
SuperJam “?”
The Bluegrass Situation Superjam hosted by Ed Helms
Disclosure
Cut Copy
The Head and the Heart
Zedd
Ms. Lauryn Hill
Funkiest Dancer
Chromeo
Broken Bells
Tedeschi Trucks Band
James Blake
Bobby Womack
Umphrey's McGee
Ice Cube
Ben Howard
Slightly Stoopid
Fitz and The Tantrums
Cake
Janelle Monáe
Grouplove
Amos Lee
CHVRCHES
Cage The Elephant
Die Antwoord
Andrew Bird & the Hands of Glory
Mastodon
Capital Cities
Jake Bugg
Chance The Rapper
Dr. Dog
Yonder Mountain String Band
John Butler Trio
Little Dragon
City and Colour
The Glitch Mob
The Naked and Famous
Taran Killam
Phosphorescent
Drive-By Truckers
Washed Out
Danny Brown
Warpaint
Sam Smith
A$AP Ferg
Darkside
Seasick Steve
Shovels & Rope
Lucero
Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Wood Brothers
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar, with special guests Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, DJ Logic and Shazad Ismaily
Pusha T
Meshuggah
Poliça
DakhaBrakha
Goat
ZZ Ward
Seun Kuti
Blackberry Smoke
MS MR
Hannibal Buress
First Aid Kit
Rudimental
A Tribe Called Red
Omar Souleyman
The Bouncing Souls
Greensky Bluegrass
Ty Segall
Sarah Jarosz
Vintage Trouble
Okkervil River
White Denim
Jonathan Wilson
Robert DeLong
Cloud Nothings
Typhoon
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Valerie June
King Khan & The Shrines
Cherub
BANKS
Break Science
The Black Lillies
Real Estate
The Lone Bellow
Caveman
Big Sam's Funky Nation
Jon Batiste
La Santa Cecilia
Classixx
Allah-Las
Cass McCombs
Vance Joy
Haerts
J. Roddy Walston & The Business
Those Darlins
Deafheaven
Lake Street Dive
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
The Wild Feathers
The Preatures
Blank Range

Eric Sundermann will be slowly dying in a tent this summer while waiting for Yeezus. Find him on Twitter — @ericsundy