“I went to the first, and now I’m coming to the last (Dreamville Festival), so this is proper send-off,” said Simon, a Chapel Hill resident. A variation of the festival will continue for the next four years in the park, but fans said goodbye this weekend to the original event hosted by rapper J. Cole.

While Ye (formerly Kanye West) has continued to badger J. Cole and his music, the North Carolina rapper took the high road during his set at Dreamville Festival 2025 on Sunday night (April 6). Cole saluted the embattled rapper ahead of performing "Work Out,

Dreamville Festival as we know it may be over, but J. Cole hints that it's not totally the end. During the fifth and final Dreamville Fest held in Raleigh, North Carolina, the "cLOUDs" rapper and co-founder addressed the future of the music festival while performing Cole's "Too Deep for the Intro" with headliner Erykah Badu on the last night of the weekend-long festival on Sunday (April 6),