Five Flags Center Confirms Date of Upcoming Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Concert, Adds Lil Flip to Show

FIVE FLAGS CENTER – Five Flags Center, Dubuque’s entertainment destination, today confirmed its next hip hop showcase, which will feature headliner Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, plus special guests Lil Flip and Do or Die. The concert is booked for Saturday, October 23, beginning at 8:00 PM. Tickets are currently on sale at the Five Flags Box Office, and online via FiveFlagsCenter.com and Ticketmaster.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony has been ranked among the greatest rap groups of all time. The Cleveland-based quintet debuted in 1994, shortly after Eazy-E had signed them. The following year, they released their breakout album, “E. 1999 Eternal,” which topped the Billboard albums chart. The album contained the hits “1st of tha Month,” “East 1999,” and “Tha Crossroads,” which would become the group’s best-performing single. It topped Billboard’s Hot 100, Rap, and R&B charts in the summer of 1996. All told, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have tallied more than a dozen Top 40 hits, the most recent coming just two years ago, when their track “Fantasy” reached #13. Through their career, the group has collaborated with a veritable “who’s who” of music, including Mariah Carey, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Phil Collins, and Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine).

Lil Flip has been a mainstay of the Texas hip hop scene since releasing his self-published debut in 2000. Since then, he's landed multiple albums in the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 200, and has cracked the top ten of the singles charts numerous times. His most successful single to date was 2004's "Sunshine" featuring Lea, which climbed all the way to #2 on the pop singles chart. Among the most prolific rap artists of the 21st century, Lil Flip has also verses to songs by the likes of DMX, Pitbull, Beyonce, and Nelly.

Chicago-based Do or Die are also longtime veterans of that city’s hip hop landscape. Their first mainstream success came in 1996, when their debut single “Po Pimp” reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 while topping the publication’s Rap chart.

Local Contact: Jesse Gavin, Marketing Manager – 563-589-4353 | jgavin@fiveflagscenter.com