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Under “ Pause on this site” click “ Always”.Click the AdBlock icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Hot 97’s “Hip Hop Forever” at Madison Square GardenĪdblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others And to round it off, the “Pillars of Hip Hop” segment will be hosted by the one and only DJ Kool Herc, alongside Cindy Campbell, Grandmaster Caz, Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel, Roxanne Shanté, Scorpio, Sugar Hill Gang and more.

The occasion will also encompass a “Queens of Hip Hop” set featuring Eve, Lil Kim, Remy Ma and Trina. The group will be joined by a few of their fellow tastemakers, including Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube. “I am honored to pay tribute to the culture that allowed this little shy kid from Queens to grow up and become The Mighty King of Rock!” “Up in the Bronx’ where it all started we will be celebrating this historic moment in history!,” Darryl “DMC” McDaniels said.

Fortunately, fans of the ‘80s hip-hop group will have the opportunity to see them live for a final time at Yankee Stadium’s “Hip Hop 50 Live” event on August 11. Hosted by Rock the Bells radio personality Roxanne Shanté, the August 5 event will showcase performances from DJ Z-Trip, Queen Latifah, Ludacris, De La Soul, Method Man and Redman, Swizz Beatz and a few surprise special guests.Ī post shared by Hip Hop 50 was scheduled to play its last show ever in April at Madison Square Garden, an event that didn’t end up actually happening. The comeback event will return once again in 2023, this time, taking place in LL Cool J’s home borough of Queens at Forest Hills Stadium. “I feel like Hip-Hop is indispensable, and the same reverence and deference in the way Paul McCartney gets celebrated, the way Bob Dylan gets celebrated or Mick Jagger, I feel like these artists, these kings, and queens, deserve that same treatment for this art form,” LL Cool J said of the festival. Take the recently-united Wu-Tang Clan, for example, who performed at the inaugural 2004 festival just four months before the passing of Ol’ Dirty Bastard.Īfter a few more iterations of Rock the Bells throughout California in 20, the festival went on hiatus for nearly two decades until LL Cool J revived it last year. A post shared by ROCK THE BELLS the Bells, the namesake festival of SiriusXM’s channel 43 hip-hop radio station, played a major role in hip-hop history, serving as a platform for a few artists’ career-defining shows.
