August 20, 2023 9.00 am This story is over 13 months old

Hip-hop at 50: How the genre travelled from the Bronx to Lincoln

We speak to a Grammy winning producer, an up and coming rapper and a resident DJ – all from Lincoln
On the month of hip-hop's 50th anniversary, we spoke to a few sizeable names in the Lincoln rap sphere - including a Grammy nominated producer - on what makes the genre tick and its emergence in Lincoln.
By Local Democracy Reporter

From beat breaks at a party in the Bronx to headlining every festival on the planet – the 50-year journey of hip-hop as a music genre has created a new lane for aspiring artists to pursue greatness in creativity.

August 11, 1973 has become the symbolic birth date of this genre we now all know called hip-hop, thanks to funk and soul DJ Kool Herc’s mixing of two records together, while making vocal announcements over the top, from an apartment in the Bronx, New York.

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