WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday hosted a party of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary with appearances by means of probably the most song style’s pioneers and stars.
Common, Jeezy, MC Lyte and Roxanne Shante have been a few of the hip-hop artists invited to sign up for Harris for the party on the vice presidential place of dwelling.
Hip-hop’s 50th birthday has impressed a host of anniversary occasions this 12 months. Many hint the style’s advent to an Aug. 11, 1973, back-to-school party the place 18-year-old Clive Campbell, additionally recognized as DJ Kool Herc, deejayed at a Bronx rental development in New York City.
Harris stated hip-hop is “the ultimate American art form” that “shapes every aspect of America’s popular culture.”
“Hip-hop culture is American culture,” she informed the gang.
Hip-hop has grown into a global artform, turning into one of the crucial international’s maximum influential cultural forces, an integral part of social and racial justice movements and a multibillion-dollar industry constructed on generations of rapping, emceeing, deejaying, breaking and graffiti.
Harris famous that Public Enemy rapper Chuck D has described rap as “Black America’s CNN.”
“It has always channeled the voices of the people. It tells the stories that don’t make the news,” she stated earlier than becoming a member of her husband, Doug Emhoff, to look at musicians’ performances.
Saturday’s party was once a collaboration with Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Live Nation Urban.
“This is a hip-hop household!” Emhoff stated.