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Pharrell Williams has added some new names to his Something In The Water Festival lineup.

May 8, 2019 The festivals change in location was because Pharrell felt his hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia didnt do enough to address the police killing of his cousin Donovon Lynch in 2021. Pharrell announced the festivals cancellationin a letter to Virginia Beach City Manager Patrick Duhaney. I love my city, but for far too long it has been run by and with toxic energy, he wrote. The toxic energy that changed the narrative several times around the homicide of my cousin, Lynch, a citizen of Virginia, is the same toxic energy that changed the narrative around the mass murder and senseless loss of life at Building Number 2. I wish the same energy Ive felt from Virginia Beach leadership upon losing the festival would have been similarly channeled following the loss of my relatives life. Check out the full lineup for Something In The Water below, which goes down June 17 19. View this post on Instagram Read more