Hip-hop turns 50 this year and the Grammy Museum is celebrating with an expansive exhibition
Jason King, dean of the USC Thornton School of Music and former chair of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU speaks with Bay Area rapper Saweetie at the exhibit Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit he co-curated at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, October 6, 2023. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles seen on Friday, October 6, 2023. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of the first women DJs in the Bay Area hip-hop scene co-curator Felicia Angeja Viator, an associate professor at San Francisco State University and author of To Live And Defy In LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America, poses in the interactive area of Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Edition at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, October 6, 2023. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
A promotional photo of Grandmaster Flash, a founding father of hip-hop, and a flyer for the Back Door Club from 1978 are seen in Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, October 6, 2023. The exhibit is in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Curating the exhibition along with King are a who’s who of hip-hop experts that include Felicia Angeja Viator, associate professor of history at San Francisco State University and author of “To Live And Defy In LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America,” and one of the first women DJs in the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene; Adam Bradley, professor of English and founding director of the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture at UCLA, and co-editor of “The Anthology of Rap”; and Dan Charnas, associate arts...
Other items in the exhibition include The Notorious B.I.G.’s iconic 5001 Flavors custom red leather peacoat he wore in Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s music video “Players Anthem.” It’s displayed alongside Shakur’s white suit from his last music video “I Ain’t Mad at Cha.”
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