On Friday, July 4th, 2025, the Colorado music scene will experience a rare convergence of worlds: Following a loaded local lineup in the early evening highlighted by Phish summer tour hitting Boulder’s Folsom Field and Wu-Tang Clan performing its last-ever Colorado show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater, far-reaching funk-jam sextet Lettuce and iconic Wu-Tang rapper GZA will bring the fanbases together in Denver for a late-night hip-hop throwdown at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom [get tickets].

No band commands the funky space between hip-hop and jam bands quite like Lettuce. The group has always leaned toward hip-hop within its improv-oriented, funk-centric sound. Lettuce has mounted various notable collaborations with hip-hop heavyweights through the years, from its set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with GZA’s Wu-Tang Clan cohort Ghostface Killah in 2017 to a 2023 stint at New York’s Blue Note featuring early-days rap heavyweights Buckshot and Grand Puba and beyond. During their co-headline tour earlier this year, GZA joined in with Lettuce in Brooklyn for a take on timeless Wu-Tang tentpole “C.R.E.A.M.”

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On the upcoming performance with GZA at Cervantes’ after Wu-Tang Clan’s final show in Colorado and the ongoing touring activities, Lettuce drummer Adam Deitch reflected, “Wu-Tang Clan to this day has such a cultural impact on this world. GZA aka the Genius, who we’ve gotten to know and work with over the years, is an integral part of the style, knowledge, and sound of this legendary group. GZA’s album Liquid Swords is a classic, and we are honored to be sharing the stage with him and his band. Lettuce looks forward to seeing you all in attendance for this monumental show that will join classic Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, and mysterious psych jams into one big sweaty event!”

Tickets for the Lettuce/GZA late-night at Denver’s Cervantes’ on Friday, July 4th after Phish at Folsom Field and Wu-Tang Clan at Fiddler’s Green are on sale here while supplies last. Below, get a taste of this potent live hip-hop combo with a clip of GZA joining Lettuce for Wu-Tang Clan classic “C.R.E.A.M.” in his native Brooklyn, NY earlier this year.

Lettuce w/ GZA – “C.R.E.A.M.” (Wu-Tang Clan) – Brooklyn, NY

[Originally published 6/4/25]