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The annual, multi-venue NYC festival also includes Sun Ra Arkestra, Dave Harrington’s Merry Pranksters, Ravi Coltrane paying tribute to Alice Coltrane, Rafiq Bhatia, Red Baraat, and more.

The video is a tribute to James Brown and Nas — it has The Soul Rebels covering James Brown’s “The Boss” which they learned while touring with Nas, whose “Get Down” samples the song.

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Solange, Digable Planets, Future/Young Thug, Tommy Stinson’s Bash & Pop, Sylvan Esso/Lucy Dacus, Ty Segall, David Crosby, The Obsessed, and more.

The free 2017 Bushwick Collective Block Party has free face painting for kids, graffiti and street art, food trucks, a Modelo beer garden, and live music with a lineup that’s heavy on veteran New York rappers.

Tonight’s shows include: LCD Soundsystem playing the opening of Brooklyn Steel, Xiu Xiu, The Marked Men, Pile, Show Me the Body, and more.

The venerable underground rap label Rhymesayers have been throwing the Soundset Festival (with Rose Presents) in their home city of Minneapolis for a decade now. The 10th annual edition of the fest happens Sunday, May 28…

This year’s lineup is headlined by Pharrell & The Roots, with Lil Wayne, Solange, 21 Savage, Kimbra, Michael Kiwanuka, Thundercat, Noname, and a “live mixtape” from Black Thought & J.Period with Fat Joe, Mobb Deep, and Scott Storch.

Queensbridge rap legends Mobb Deep graced their hometown with a show at BB King’s last night (2/16), celebrating the 20th anniversary of 1996’s Hell on Earth, the great followup to their most classic album, The Infamous. The show’s whole bill was a mix of ’90s New York rap legends and newer artists who pay tribute to that era…

While he may not be a household name, his jazzy, groovy, lounge-y records from the late ’60s were a well that ’90s-era hip hop would go to again and again, his music being sampled on records by Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ-Shadow, De La Soul, The Beatnuts, Dr Dre.

Questlove and Phonte talk to the New York hip hop legend, and you can read an exclusive transcript of part of the interview.