Today is #GlobalHipHopDay Shout out to Hip Hop. Watch @BET Tales June 27th
Check out the trailer from BEt’s Tales series coming June 27th 2017
Today is #GlobalHipHopDay and we’re about to show you how far hip hop has come in #TALESonBET: a hip hop anthology series coming 6/27! pic.twitter.com/DkmwtL9BHE
— BET (@BET) June 8, 2017
Slick Rick Praises The First-Ever Global Hip-Hop Day
June 8 marks Global Hip-Hop Day, during which we celebrate the global and cultural impact of the genre that was started some 40 years ago.
The first-ever event, which is held in conjunction with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the office of The Bronx Borough President, and New York radio station Hot 97, will take place in the Bronx and will commemorate hip-hop’s ability to unite people and create positive impact around the globe.
During the day, there will be a public proclamation and unveiling of Hip-Hop Boulevard at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, which is the birthplace of hip-hop and home of legendary hip-hop pioneer Kool Herc.
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Global Hip Hop Day acknowledges hip hop’s ability to unite people and create positive cultural impact with the official Proclamation and street renaming Ceremony, followed by a community Block Party at Cedar Playground. Additional invitation only events— including an Industry Conversation and VIP Celebration—are planned to foster the current and future growth of hip hop’s positive influence.
Hip Hop, the first music genre created in New York City, has spanned far beyond its origins in The Bronx to become, according to marketing powerhouse Steve Stoute, “a catalytic force majeure that went beyond musical boundaries and into the psyche of young America.” Global Hip Hop Day celebrates this ‘catalytic force’ with the acknowledgement of hip hop’s cultural and commercial capital and the pervasive power of an art form that has become an international behemoth.
