{"id":2040850,"date":"2026-07-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2040850"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:00:00","slug":"savannah-bananas-a-trio-of-hip-hop-legends-set-to-perform-on-2026-espys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2040850","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Bananas & A Trio of Hip-Hop Legends Set to Perform on 2026 ESPYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIf you love both hip-hop and sports, you do not want to miss the 2026 ESPYS.<\/p>\n

\n\tSlick Rick, Ghostface Killah and De La Soul are all set to perform on the show, which will air live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City on Wednesday, July 15, at 8 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. CT on ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJalen Brunson, Lionel Messi & Alysa Liu Lead 2026 ESPYS Nominations: Full\u00a0List\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMarcello Hern\u00e1ndez to Host 2026\u00a0ESPYS\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SNL<\/em> star Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez will host this year\u2019s ceremony, which will also feature a performance by the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition barnstorming baseball team based in Savannah, Georgia.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a member of Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 14. Slick Rick received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2023. De La Soul won a Grammy in 1998 for their featured role on Gorillaz\u2019s \u201cFeel Good Inc.,\u201d which was voted best pop collaboration with vocals (and was also nominated for record of the year and best music video).<\/p>\n

\n\tHip-hop performers were also showcased at last year\u2019s ESPY Awards. Busta Rhymes, Clipse, rapper and singer Tobe Nwigwe and basketball player-turned-rapper LiAngelo Ball \u2014 who raps under the stage name GELO \u2014 performed at the 2025 ESPYS, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Shane Gillis hosted.<\/p>\n

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\n\tABC has aired the ESPYs every year since 2015 (except for the pandemic year of 2020, when the show aired on ESPN). This year\u2019s show will also stream on the ESPN App in pattern with ABC airings across time zones and be available to stream the next day on Disney+, Hulu, the ESPN App, and ABC Video on Demand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/savannah-bananas-2023-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard If you love both hip-hop and sports, you do not want to miss the 2026 ESPYS. Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah and De La Soul are all set to perform on the show, which will air live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2040850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}