Hip-hop will take pleasure in its fiftieth birthday within the largest approach attainable this summer season when it returns to the style’s outdated stomping grounds in The Bronx on Aug. 11. Dubbed Hip-Hop 50 Dwell, a slew of the style’s most adorned stars, together with Run-D.M.C., Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Dice, will take heart stage contained in the legendary Yankee Stadium to have fun hip-hop’s origin.
Together with the names talked about above, there will probably be a number of particular units in commemoration of the occasion, together with Queens of Hip-Hop, headlined by Eve, Trina, Remy Ma, and Lil Kim, together with a Pillars of Hip-Hop set paying homage to the early architects of the style comparable to Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel, Roxanne Shante and extra. Different performers embrace T.I., Fats Joe, Widespread, A$AP Ferg, EPMD, Ghostface Killah, Lupe Fiasco, and Slick Rick, whereas the DJ set will function Clark Kent, Marley Marl, Mannie Contemporary, and Battlecat.
“I’m honored to hit the stage within the Bronx, the birthplace of Hip Hop and have fun all of my heroes,” stated RUN in a press launch. “Aug eleventh is Hip Hop’s fiftieth birthday! So…’Up within the Bronx’ the place it began we will probably be celebrating this historic second in historical past! I’m honored to pay tribute to the tradition that allowed this little shy child from Queens to develop up and develop into The Mighty King of Rock! Thanks Hip Hop!!!” stated DMC.
Pre-sales start this Thursday (June 8), from 10 a.m. EST till 10 p.m., with costs beginning at $50. Common onsale will start on June 9 at 10 a.m. EST right here. Hip-Hop 50 Dwell will probably be co-produced by Mass Enchantment, Dwell Nation and the New York Yankees. Emmy Award-winner, BASSic Black Leisure CEO Adam Blackstone and producer and keyboardist Omar Edwards would be the live performance’s inventive music administrators.
Try the complete lineup under.
