03 Greedo brings Watts to Weedpatch Highway on Feb. 13

The prolific Los Angeles rapper booked Paradise Palace Hall for a Saturday night in February, and tickets are already on sale.

Bakersfield doesn't get many nights where a rapper with a cult following this deep points the tour van up the 99 instead of past it. Last week we got one: 03 Greedo will play Paradise Palace Hall on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2027, with the show starting at 8 p.m. The date was announced Nov. 3, and tickets run $15 to $100 through Eventbrite.

If you only know the name, here's the short version. 03 Greedo is Jason Jamal Jackson, a rapper, singer, songwriter and producer from the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, per Wikipedia. He built his name the hard way, on a run of mixtapes that started with 2016's *Purple Summer*, and on a melodic, half-sung style that made him one of the most distinctive voices in West Coast street rap.

Then the story took a turn. In April 2018 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on drug trafficking and firearm charges. He kept releasing music from inside, earned his GED in 2019, and after a successful parole hearing was released on Jan. 12, 2023. Seven days later he put out *Halfway There*, his first album since the sentence, as XXL and Stereogum reported at the time.

He hasn't slowed down since. The Fader clocked him dropping three tapes in nine days at the turn of 2025. *Another Night Out* followed that October, a record HotNewHipHop noted he largely carried on his own. This September brought *Last Night Out*, a nine-track EP with features from Ty Dolla $ign and Wallie the Sensei, per HotNewHipHop. In other words, anyone heading out in February will have a deep, fresh catalog to hear and probably a few songs that didn't exist when the show was booked.

He kept releasing music from inside, and he hasn't slowed down since.

The room is part of the story too. Paradise Palace Hall sits at 1430 Weedpatch Highway on Bakersfield's southeast side, and most people in town know it as an event hall, the kind of place that hosts weddings and big family parties, per its Zola listing. A rap show there is a different kind of celebration, and it puts a touring act in a hall that's easy to reach for folks in east Bakersfield, Lamont and the neighborhoods along Highway 184 instead of making them drive to LA or Fresno.

Size matters here. 03 Greedo's usual headline room holds about 820 people, so this isn't an arena-tour stop scaled down. It's the kind of crowd he plays for night in and night out, which should make for a packed, loud floor rather than a half-empty hall.

What to know before you go: the ticket spread is wide, from $15 at the low end up to $100, so if you're price-sensitive, buy early before the cheaper tiers are gone. Eventbrite is the seller. Check the ticket page for age rules and any updates on the rest of the bill, which hadn't been announced with the date.

February is a long way off, but nights like this have a way of selling out while everybody is still saying they'll get around to it. If you've been waiting for 03 Greedo to come to Bakersfield, he's coming. Get your ticket and clear the Saturday.

Sources: 03 Greedo at Paradise Palace Hall (JamBase) (jambase.com); Tickets (Eventbrite) (eventbrite.com); 03 Greedo - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); 03 Greedo announces first album since prison sentence (XXL) (xxlmag.com); 03 Greedo Announces New Album Halfway There (Stereogum) (stereogum.com); 03 Greedo just dropped his third tape in nine days (The Fader) (thefader.com); Another Night Out - Album by 03 Greedo (HotNewHipHop) (hotnewhiphop.com); Last Night Out - EP by 03 Greedo (HotNewHipHop) (hotnewhiphop.com); Paradise Palace Hall (Zola) (zola.com)