This year’s ESSENCE Festival lineup is filled with amazing artists who are also celebrated for the way they are able to maintain flourishing professional careers while keeping their families at the top of the priority list.

ESSENCE Festival 2017 single-night tickets and ticket packages are on sale now! For more info and the latest news, visit our Festival page here.

We chatted with multitalented entertainer John Legend and Hip Hop mogul Master P about what some of the ways fatherhood has changed them and what it really means to be a dad. Hear what they had to say above and the be sure to grab your tickets to see these doting dads light up the stage, alongside more of the biggest names in music, at the 2017 ESSENCE Festival in New Orleans!