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the bronx

Birthplace Of Hip Hop Is A Future Tourist Attraction

Good news, hip hop fans! It looks like the City of New York is going to save the building at 1520 Sedgwick in the Bronx, a.k.a. Sedgwick and Cedar, a.k.a the BIRTHPLACE OF HIP HOP, from destruction [NYT]. It's where DJ Kool Herc first started throwing parties and cutting records in 1973, leading eventually to those sweet, sweet hip hop sounds. Bad news, hip hop fans: a nightclub in Kips Bay just agreed to pay a $35,000 fine for keeping out black patrons in "urban wear" clothing, but letting in white people in the same clothes. When will the struggle for equality in crappy nightclub admissions end? Below, a documentary clip on Herc and the founding of hip hop in the building. Do the knowledge, yall. More »

10:08 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
610 views, 12 comments

Latest by n/a: @famousauthor: co-sign. more »

lawsuits

Jay-Z Kool With Herc; Voodoo Issue Still Unresolved

Yesterday, a man named Clive Campbell filed a wacky $5 billion lawsuit against rap star and partial New Jersey Nets owner Jay-Z, as well as others associated with the huge Atlantic Yards construction project in downtown Brooklyn (which includes a new stadium for the Nets). The charge was that because Barclay's bought naming rights to the stadium, and was possibly involved in the slave trade way back when, everyone involved was illegally profiting from slavery. So that will be dismissed quickly. More interesting: Clive Campbell is the real name of DJ Kool Herc, the old school master widely credited as the founder of hip hop. So outlets started reporting that Kool Herc was suing Jay-Z—intergenerational hip hop madness! But then it came out that this was a different Clive Campbell [Gothamist]. Too bad, cause that would have been crazy. Now Jay-Z can turn his attention to warding off this "Voodoo Priestest"!: More »

4:28 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
655 views, 8 comments

Latest by The Assimilated Negro: Mr. Nolan, I chastised you for the weird stout/jay-z analysis, but i do appreciate you bringing something resembling a hip hop beat to gawk. it's just unfortunate that jay-z's name isn't a guaranteed 3-5K in pageview like, say, Jay-Allison. maybe more »