Ninth Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Announces Lineup

Wednesday night, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival officially kicked off its 9th annual shindig with a gathering of volunteers, sponsors and Bodega Fam at the Brooklyn Brewery. Schedules were announced, names were dropped, tickets went on sale, beer was consumed, fun was had.

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BHF’12 Bodega Education Initiative

Tonight, the Bodega Education Initiative (BEI) continues at the Brooklyn Public Library! Over the past three months, we’ve met at the Brookyn Historical Society to explore: Heavy D The Overweight Lover, The Box That Rocks: Video Music Box and The

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#BHF12 Wild truths of a wild style. An interview with “Wild Style” director Charlie Ahearn

On Tuesday, July 10th, Filmwax will be a co-presenter at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival and will feature screenings of Wild Style (1983) and Big Fun in The Big Town (1986) at the Brooklyn Central Library Dweck Auditorium at Grand

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On hell, heaven, idolators, the BET Awards and the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

“Idolator! Your soul is required in Hell!” – The old man who murders Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) at the end of New Jack City. “All the way to heaven!” – Doug E. Fresh, from Doug E. Fresh and the Get

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On Busta Rhymes, Flavor Flav and the magical power of Br’er Rabbit…

Hip-hop’s relationship to African folk traditions should be obvious. A nephew of griots and a cousin to jazz, rap music’s cultural connection to some of the most intrinsic pieces of the grand puzzle of black history are obvious. The key

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Win a trip to a concert in Coachella Valley with your pics!

All you music lovers, we’ve got your chance at an all expenses paid trip to a concert in Coachella Valley next month! Submit a your best concert photo to the T-Mobile 4G Life Photo Contest this weekend for your chance to win a

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2012 BROOKLYN HIP-HOP FESTIVAL – July 9th- July 14th

Brooklyn Bodega, producers of the 8th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF), announce that 2012 is the year the Festival will delight its fans with another “Artist & Friends” once-in-a-liftetime presentation and increase Performance Day capacity by 40% as we move

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Kendrick Lamar Videos

I know everyone is talking about “N****s In Paris” but this was on the brain today. BHF Alum Kendrick Lamar

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Flashback VIDEO – Q-Tip and Kanye at BHF ’11

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Family Day: Community Hip-Hop

At this time in history, the concept of community is more important than it’s ever been. These days, our world can sometimes seem a bit plastic, somewhat disengaged, overly mechanic and lacking of that certain human touch and spirit that

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