Escape Psycho Circus has added two hip hop names to its 2026 roster. Too $hort and Ja Rule will both perform at the Halloween weekend festival on Saturday, October 31, according to an announcement from Insomniac.
It’s a notable pivot for a lineup otherwise stacked with dance music heavyweights. Too $hort is one of the Bay Area’s defining rap exports, a Oakland staple since the mid-1980s whose catalog and influence on West Coast hip hop run deep. Ja Rule, the New York rapper and singer who broke through in the late ’90s and early 2000s with a run of platinum singles and Murder Inc. releases, brings a different…
