Back in the day…August 11, 1973, to be precise… DJ Clive Campbell forever changed the way we listen to music. That night, Campbell was spinning records at a birthday party in the rec room at a Sedgewick Ave apartment building in the Bronx. Campbell played tunes from James Brown, Jimmy Castor and more. He played funk and soul tracks too. Noticing that people waited for a particular part of the song to show off their best dance moves, Campbell (DJ Kool Herc) used 2 turn tables to jump back & forth to extend these “break beats.” The Bronx took notice, and the rest of the world did too

50 years later, Hip-Hop is woven into the fabric of our culture. Hip-Hop is not only the biggest money-making genre in the world but it continues to influence other music genres worldwide like Pop, Reggae and Latin with artists crossing over to collaborate or sample Hip-Hop beats. Hip-Hop is creating Billionaires in Music, Fashion, and Entertainment. Hip-Hop is more than music it is a culture.

THE CULTURE: HIP-HOP’S 5OTH ANNIVERSARY ( working title) is a 9-part performance-based retrospective, featuring more than 200 artists from the past 50 years.