Featured performers at the Yankee Stadium extravaganza on the actual birthday of Hip Hop Include the trailblazers Run DMC.
Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube are repping for the West Coast. Atlanta's own Lil Wayne is showing up for the South. Good Day's Christal Young reports live from Hip-Hop Til Infinity the new evocative digital installation that transport guests through Hip Hop’s different eras and regions.
"I'm looking for that roar of the crowd, that's what we strive for you know, we make the crowd roar, so that's what we're gonna do. That's what it is."Months of planning went into making the Yankee Stadium concert a reality. Some of the proceeds will benefit the Universal Hip Hop Museum. "This year, the 50th Anniversary, what the museum allows us to do is to continue to tell the narrative, the story of Hip Hop in perpetuity," said Ruben Diaz Jr. "And it's going to have an education component. We're going to celebrate the elements of Hip Hop, and it's going to be a global destination."
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