Six Artists, One Stage, $25,000: Plaqueboymax’s ‘Rising Star’ Finale Is Tonight in Los Angeles
Plaqueboymax’s three-day livestreamed competition “Rising Star,” run with Red Bull (November 6–8 in Los Angeles), ends tonight with a live finale at The Belasco in downtown Los Angeles.
For three days, six emerging artists lived together under one roof — writing and recording original songs, competing in challenges, and performing in front of a rotating panel of star judges that included Lil Yachty, Coi Leray and Wiz Khalifa — while fans at home voted in real time. Tonight, the finalists perform their original songs on the Belasco stage and one winner is crowned live.
The Prize
The winner takes $25,000 in cash plus access to the Red Bull Music Studio in Los Angeles — the kind of room and engineering support that can turn a weekend of momentum into an actual career step.
Why It Matters
Plaqueboymax built his name as one of streaming’s biggest music personalities by putting unsigned artists in front of his audience. Rising Star is that idea at full scale — a major brand, a real stage, real judges and a real check — built for artists who do not have a label machine behind them yet.
HipHopStories will post the winner as soon as it is official.
Sources: XXL, Revolt, Complex.