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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...

You can now watch the first two seasons of Chris Rock's 1997 - 2000 HBO series, which featured such guests as Prince, D'Angelo, Maxwell, Tracy Morgan, Erykah Badu, Puff Daddy, Conan O'Brien, Wyclef Jean, Missy Elliot, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes and more.

plus Bartees Strange, Knocked Loose, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Portugal. The Man, Marco Benevento, and more livestreams you can watch this week.

The soundtrack also features Nas, Rapsody, Smino, Saba, A$AP Rocky, Pooh Shiesty, Polo G, H.E.R., and more...

The Shaka King-directed, Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield-starring film about the assassination of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton will feature a Jay-Z/Nipsey Hussle collab, as well as songs by Smino, Saba, Rapsody, Pooh Shiesty, and more...

”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...”

plus NOFX, Bad Religion, Bob Weir and Wolf Bros, The Dandy Warhols, Melvins, Rakim, J Period, Dua Lipa, J Balvin, YG, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

Black Thought also did a 'Colors Show' live performance and talked about the rapper whose co-sign made him say ”My work is done here! Mission accomplished!”

Chris Rock, Q-Tip, Pete Rock, Rapsody, the late ODB, Rick Ross, Mariah Carey and more also appear.

Mike Epps is bringing a block party to living rooms with a new virtual concert he's hosting.