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Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is hosting another of those big ‘Master of Ceremony’ hip hop shows this June…

’Yo! MTV Raps’ is being reinvented for ” for a new generation” and the 30th anniversary show at Barclays on June 1 includes Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, EPMD, Brand Nubian, Young Black Teenagers, and many more.

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

Plus, listen to Pete Rock’s new Panda Bear remix On Thursday (6/24), hip hop legend Pete Rock celebrated his new Petestrumentals 2 album with a star-studded release show at Brooklyn B…

Plus, Robert Glasper, Rakim, The LOX and more playing there this weekend Jazz musician Kamasi Washington, who’s on the new Kendrick Lamar album, the new Thundercat album, and has his own new album out now on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, has announced a lengthy t…

Hip hop legend Pete Rock, known among other things for his classic 1992 collaboration with CL Smooth, Mecca and the Soul Brother, put out a new instrumental album this w…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Todd Terje, Free Magic @ Verboten Having made one of last year’s best albums, Norwegian analog synth aficionado Todd Terje doesn’t tour much, and this show tonight is his only North American date apart from Coachella…

Nas @ Rock the Bells (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) That didn’t take long. We just announced the intitial lineup. Check out the almost-full thing below…

Keith Murray, EPMD, and Redman of Hit Squad Best Buy Theater in Times Square will welcome the return of the Hit Squad on February 24th, the hip hop crew which included EPMD, Redman, Keith Murray, K-Solo, and Das EFX before splintering into the Def Squad after the EPMD break-up…

Pharoahe Monch @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (more by BBG) Pharoahe Monch‘s latest tongue-twisting LP W.A.R. is out now via Duck Down Records and Monch has a pair of dates scheduled in the coming weeks…