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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.

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.

Plus: Algiers, Anna of the North, Beach Bunny, Poison Idea, DaBaby, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

It's the unofficial start of summer and we've got some suggestions for musical stuff to see this long holiday weekend in NYC.

Plus: Live From Here With Chris Thile, Baby Dee and more tour news.

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.

There's also a new Nas and Erykah Badu song.

As previously mentioned, rap legends De La Soul are releasing the new crowdfunded album And the Anonymous Nobody on August 26, with guest appearances by Damon Albarn, Little Dragon, David Byrne, Pete Rock, and more. The Snoop Dogg-featuring single "Pain" is out now...

Aziz Ansari's new Netflix series, Master of None, debuted on Friday and if you were like me you powered through the whole thing over the course of a couple days...

Plenty of great hip hop shows in NYC are getting announced all the time. We don't get a chance to write about all of them, so here's a roundup of some recently-announced stuff coming up:

Veteran underground duo Cannibal Ox finally released the followup to their El-P-produced 2001 debut this…