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This year's festival goes down June 29-July 3 in New Orleans, and will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop.

In the house at Webster Hall on Thursday: Q-Tip, Prince Paul, Queen Latifah, Black Thought, Chuck D, Monie Love, Common, Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, D-Nice, Pharoahe Monch, and more.

Other new additions to SummerStage’s 2022 lineup include Skip Marley, Burning Spear, and more.

Saturday's NYC-area shows include Wilco, Big Thief, Lyricist Lounge 30th Anniversary Celebration, The Zombies, Tim Heidecker, Lee Fields, and more.

It's “A Night of HIp Hop Royalty“ at Queens' Knockdown Center in November, featuring Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick (both of whom are touring this fall), Rakim and Kid Capri...

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.

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.

The Roosevelt was a location for many movies over the years, as well as the Roosevelt Record Convention that was central to '80s/'90s hip-hop.

’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.