Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday hosted a celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary with appearances by some of the audio genre’s pioneers and stars.
Frequent, Jeezy, MC Lyte and Roxanne Shante ended up among the hip-hop artists invited to be part of Harris for the bash at the vice presidential residence.
Hip-hop’s 50th birthday has impressed a host of anniversary situations this year. Lots of trace the genre’s generation to an Aug. 11, 1973, again-to-college occasion exactly where 18-12 months-outdated Clive Campbell, also known as DJ Kool Herc, deejayed at a Bronx apartment making in New York Metropolis.
Harris said hip-hop is “the final American artwork form” that “shapes each individual facet of America’s preferred society.”
“Hip-hop society is American culture,” she told the crowd.
Hip-hop has grown into a worldwide artform, getting to be a person of the world’s most influential cultural forces, an integral section of social and racial justice movements and a multibillion-greenback field built on generations of rapping, emceeing, deejaying, breaking and graffiti.
Harris observed that Community Enemy rapper Chuck D has described rap as “Black America’s CNN.”
“It has normally channeled the voices of the folks. It tells the stories that do not make the news,” she claimed ahead of becoming a member of her husband, Doug Emhoff, to enjoy musicians’ performances.
Saturday’s celebration was a collaboration with Recording Academy’s Black Audio Collective and Dwell Nation Urban.
“This is a hip-hop home!” Emhoff said.
