(Photo courtesy of SPB)

Global hip-hop sensation Flo Rida will headline 2025’s Spring WILD (Walk In, Lay Down), which is scheduled for Friday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. on Mudd Field.

Grammy-winning DJ and producer Mustard and WashU student band On Hold With The IRS will perform as openers for Spring WILD. Mustard has collaborated with many popular artists and has produced his own hit albums, but he has recently skyrocketed in popularity for producing Kendrick Lamar’s diss track on Drake, “Not Like Us,” which is prefaced by Mustard’s signature “Mustard on the beat, ho!” 

The band On Hold With The IRS includes WashU seniors Nick Rodriguez, Caroline Haber, Charlie Morrison, and Jake Tindall, and junior Solly Lerman. The group defies genre boundaries and has also performed at popular venues like The BAO in Clayton, the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, and Joe’s Cafe. 

Flo Rida was officially announced as the headliner at the WILD Reveal Party hosted by the WashU Social Programming Board (SPB) on Thursday, April 3, at 5 p.m. in Tisch Commons.

Given the recent construction on Mudd Field, SPB’s Concerts Chair, senior Juan Sanchez, reassured students that the concert will not be impeded by the current construction.

Sanchez also explained that wristbands to gain admission will be offered for free to all current undergraduates during the week before WILD, in a similar manner to how wristbands were distributed for 2023’s Spring WILD concert. This year, SPB will also sell wristbands to graduate students. 

According to Sanchez, WILD’s budget for this year was increased to $325,000, almost double the budget of last year’s WILD, which featured rap sensation Joey Bada$$. 

Sanchez shared insight into the process of finding an artist in accordance with student preferences. 

“We began the search early in the fall semester and built a lineup of star-studded artists for the survey. We then published the survey near the end of the fall semester and gathered results from the student body, where they ranked their top twelve artists,” Sanchez wrote in an email to Student Life.

Sanchez added that SPB is looking forward to the concert and said that more information regarding wristband distribution and the concert’s set-up will follow in the next couple of weeks.  

“The WILD team and SPB are incredibly excited to have such a fantastic lineup this year, which provides differing sounds from A-List artists Flo Rida and Mustard!” Sanchez wrote.