50 years of hip-hop: Yankee Stadium (video)

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Hip-Hop celebrates its 50th anniversary

(Inside Edition) Aug. 11, 2023: It's a big party across the airwaves as America celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Yankee Stadium in New York is holding a concert with some of the biggest names in hip-hop performing for the big anniversary. The lead-up to today's celebrations was building all year long, including performances from Run DMC and LL Cool J at the Grammys. Mc Lyte, one of the pioneers of female rap, sat down with Inside Edition's Les Trent.

Poor Kool Herc's sister threw a Bronx party where he used two turntables

(Associated Press) The Bronx looks back at 50 years of hip-hop Aug. 9, 2023: Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, the poorest section of New York, rising from the ashes of a borough ablaze with [Black segregation, street drugs,] poverty, urban decay, and gang violence. Fifty years later, hip-hop is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, but the Bronx has yet to benefit. (Aug. 9) (AP Video/Noreen Nasir) More: apnews.com. AP Archive: aparchive.com/metadata/you... #bronx #hiphop #music

It's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time, Penn & Teller

H*ll no! Kool Herc didn't invent hip-hop

Kool Herc did NOT start Hip-Hop!

Neither did Jamaicans or Puerto Ricans! (Doggie Diamonds TV) Streamed live on Sept. 13, 2022: Keep it real, mofos! Tell it like it is. Straight up. Word! Speak truth to power and all these bougie n's at the AP. Man, funk that! I'm just keepin' it real, my n. No disrespect to nobody. I wasn't there, and neither was these n's. Who is the homey Minnesota? Doggie Diamonds No Filter Podcast Videos

The Birth of Hip Hop

(Black History in Two Minutes or so) 11/6/20: In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record — as well as isolate and repeat music breaks — led to the discovery of the hip hop genre. From school yards to gatherings, boomboxes housed the exhilarating sound that people couldn’t get enough of. Soon, freestyling over the beat became popular, and we’d have one of the most noted songs of the genre released in 1979, entitled “Rapper’s Delight.” As the genre evolved, artists used their platform to speak on social issues near and far. These lyrics became the melody that told the narrative of the artist’s world to a beat.

Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from author Joan Morgan, Jelani Cobb of Columbia University, rapper Nas, and filmmaker Ava Duvernay, we celebrate an underground cultural movement that has unified people and has become the most streamed genre of present day.

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Lhasa "tense" before uprising anniversary

Tibetans-in-exile after a meeting with United Nations Human Rights group, ahead of 50 years of Tibetan Uprising Day on 3/10/09 at community center in Katmandu, Nepal 3/6/09. The meeting was called by UNHR to brief Tibetans about rights limitations (AP/Manish Swarup).

BEIJING – Tensions are high in Tibet's capital and paramilitary police are out in force, Hong Kong tourists reported Friday, while Chinese authorities sought to portray a stable situation ahead of Tuesday's 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that forced the Dalai Lama into exile.

VIDEO: File footage of Dalai Lama's flight into exile (AFP)

VIDEO: Tibetans fear intimidation (Reuters)

Armed officers are positioned across Lhasa, creating a highly "tense" atmosphere, and police also are blocking roads leading to eastern parts of Tibet, a 33-year-old Hong Kong traveler told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Although they denied it, officials appeared to be on high alert for any trouble in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China to coincide with sensitive anniversaries coming up in the next week. More>>

Buddhist monks blow sea shells during prayers for peace, prosperity, and long life at the Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling monastery, in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, March 6, 2009 (AP/Manish Swarup).