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The four-show, four-burroughs "It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC" series -- part of the celebratory Homecoming Week in NYC -- wrapped up at Forest Hills Stadium on Friday night (8/20)...

Plus, watch Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, aka ”Killah Chuck,” rap a few bars.

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.

Stretch Armstrong, El-P, R.A. the Rugged Man, Guilty Simpson, and more also paid their condolences to the old school hip hop icon, rapper, producer, dancer, and EPMD affiliate.

Plus: City Morgue, Amyl & the Sniffers, Windhand, Vetiver, Tropical Fuck Storm, Yves Tumor, Weedeater, Torche, EPMD, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

Plus: Talib Kweli, Phony Ppl, Big Freedia, Musiq Soulchild, Force MDs, Grand Wizzard Theodore, The Originals and more free hip hop shows as part of SummerStage 2019.

SummerStage has announced its 2019 lineup of over 100 free shows which happen at NYC parks in all five boroughs, including Japanese Breakfast, Big Freedia, FELA! The Concert, Young M.A, The Wailers, Parquet Courts, The Mountain Goats, Corinne Bailey Rae, Alvvays, and more.

Listen to new songs by Cate Le Bon, Foxygen, The Cranberries, The Dream Syndicate, Earth, Peter Perrett (The Only Ones), Lydia Ainsworth, Full of Hell, State Faults, Kash Doll, and more.

Holiday Hip Hop Jam (with Rakim, The LOX, Black Moon & more), another Weezer/Pixies tour, Mumford & Sons, Cat Power, and more tour and show news.