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Homecoming Week kicked off w/ KRS-One, Slick Rick & more in the Bronx (pics, video, recap)

NYC’s series of free ”It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC” shows began on Monday at Orchard Beach in The Bronx with Busy Bee, Furious 5 featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel and Scorpio, Kid Capri, Nice & Smooth, Kool Moe Dee, and more.

Free Central Park & Homecoming Week NYC show tickets become available today

Here’s how to get tickets to the Central Park ”mega-concert,” plus the four hip-hop shows leading up to it in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

George Clinton, Raekwon, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One, more playing free "Homecoming Week" NYC shows

The lineup for ”It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC,” a series of four free shows leading up to the Central Park ”mega concert” happening in August, is here.

Nas, Fat Joe, LL Cool J & more broke ground on Hip Hop Museum in The Bronx

The $80 million, 52,000-square-foot Universal Hip Hop Museum is hoping to open in 2024.

Questlove talks five rappers that blew him away when he first heard them

”This is hard because music attracts me first before the rhyme,” Questlove wrote in response to author/jouranlist Shea Serrano posing the question on Twitter. ”But some rappers caught me first…”

Notable Releases of the Week (10/2)

This week’s Notable Releases include Laura Jane Grace’s surprise mostly-acoustic album, Westside Gunn’s third album of 2020, Jonsi’s first solo album in ten years, and more…

Westside Gunn's new album out this week, will feature Slick Rick, Black Thought, Jadakiss, more

It also features the entire Griselda crew, Busta Rhymes, Alchemist, Just Blaze, and more…

Rolling Stone remade their '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list from scratch

Voters included Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, John Cale, Wayne Coyne, Jimmy Cliff, Robert Smith, Waxahatchee, El-P, and over 300 others.

Snoop Dogg names his top 10 rappers of all time

”A lot niggaz been cryin about me leaving people off my top 10 without. Even seeing my shit so here it is,” Snoop writes.

tours announced: The Alarm, DeVotchKa, Melted Music Fest lineup, Slick Rick, more

Plus: My Chemical Romance, GZA, Todd Glass, Moneybagg Yo, machinegum, Harry Belafonte NYC tribute show, and more tour-related news.
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