Weekend filled with celebrations for hip-hop’s 50th birthday begins Friday
On Friday night, dozens of hip-hop icons will take the stage — including Run DMC, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and many more. It kicks off at 6 p.m.
Starting Friday, celebrations and events will be popping off all across the Bronx and Brooklyn for hip-hop's 50th birthday.
The big celebration is set for Yankee Stadium at the Hip Hop 50 Live concert. Paying homage to a culture born half a century ago, the set list will include icons like Run DMC, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and many more.
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But that’s not the only place you can celebrate 50 years of the genre. There will also be a block party put on by the Universal Hip Hop Museum at noon Friday, as well as a hip-hop cleanup event.
On Friday and Saturday, BRIC Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary Weekend at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn will also take place featuring performances by Digable Planets, Kari Faux, Wiki, Donwill, and Quinnette.
And on Saturday, the mayor’s hip-hop block party is taking over Sedgwick Avenue, the exact place hip-hop was born.
