KRS-One performs “The Bridge Is Over” and “South Bronx” for the Rock The Bells crowd.
Maybe Bambaataa, KRS-One and others should build their own hip-hop museum. If they start out with a room in a house it’s better than having a larger space run by disrespectful people. Or even do an online museum to start with because they need to get their voices heard before someone else in hip-hop dies.
1. Eminem inducting Run DMC into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. The Kings from Queens are one more set of heavyweights that validate the importance of their borough to hip-hop. It would’ve been more appropriate to have a Queens notable like Nas, Kool G.Rap, A Tribe Called Quest, 50 Cent or even Run’s [...]
(New York, NY) Twenty years ago, hip hop artist/activist KRS-One wrote an inspiring op-ed in The New York Times “A Survival Curriculum for Inner City Kids,” in which he addressed the city’s failings to take care of its most needy; in the article, he also mentioned how he’d spent many of his formative years in [...]