Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday (Sept. 9) hosted a celebration of hip-hop’s fiftieth anniversary with appearances by a few of the music style’s pioneers and stars.
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Frequent, Jeezy, MC Lyte and Roxanne Shante had been among the many hip-hop artists invited to hitch Harris for the get together on the vice presidential residence.
Hip-hop’s fiftieth birthday has impressed a number of anniversary occasions this 12 months. Many hint the style’s creation to an Aug. 11, 1973, back-to-school get together the place 18-year-old Clive Campbell, also called DJ Kool Herc, deejayed at a Bronx condo constructing in New York Metropolis.
Harris stated hip-hop is “the last word American artwork type” that “shapes each side of America’s well-liked tradition.”
“Hip-hop tradition is American tradition,” she informed the group.
Hip-hop has grown into a world artform, changing into one of many world’s most influential cultural forces, an integral a part of social and racial justice actions, and a multibillion-dollar business constructed on generations of rapping, emceeing, deejaying, breaking and graffiti.
Harris famous that Public Enemy rapper Chuck D has described rap as “Black America’s CNN.”
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“It has all the time channeled the voices of the folks. It tells the tales that don’t make the information,” she stated earlier than becoming a member of her husband, Doug Emhoff, to look at musicians’ performances.
Saturday’s celebration was a collaboration with the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Dwell Nation City.
“It is a hip-hop family!” Emhoff stated.
