The rapid rise of Europe’s biggest hip-hop fest
Beach, Please! co-founders Andrei "Selly" Selaru & George Carabelea chart the growth of the Romanian phenomenon
News By James Hanley | 10 July 2025
The organisers of Romania’s Beach, Please! have opened up on how they developed the event into one of the biggest hip-hop festivals in the world in the space of just three years.
A$AP Rocky, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Ken Carson, Yeat, Lil Baby, NLE Choppa and Denzel Curry head the stacked lineup for the 150,000-cap extravaganza in Costinești, on the shore of the Black Sea, from 9-13 July.
In a conversation with IQ, co-founder/CEO Andrei “Selly” Selaru,…
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