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03/01/2024

Homies! LINER NOTES makes its long awaited return to the the DMV at the Kennedy Center this month! We'll be doing an hour long, modified set as a part of the Hip Hop Listening Sessions.

I just checked and there's only a few tickets left---wouldn't be surprised if it sells out today so purchase as soon as you can!

We miss ya'll and can't wait to party!
Happy 12th anniversary LINER NOTES!🥳✨

As part of our Hip Hop & … Festival, join us for a very special presentation of our Hip Hop Listening Sessions focused on the intersection between hip hop and jazz! Whe

12/06/2023

Excited for this SOLD OUT event tonight. Keeping the celebration going of Queen Latifah receiving the coveted KC honor. See you tonight!🔥✨💯
All hail the QUEENS! Fresh off the heels of Queen Latifah becoming the first female hip hop artist to receive a Kennedy Center Honors, we are celebrating women in hip hop... come share your favorite songs and let’s listen together. The listening session will be complemented by a mixologist on-site, who will teach guests how to make their own themed cocktails. Special guests include moderator Dior Ashley Brown, DJ MISS H.E.R., and panelists Nia Dinero, Paige Hernandez, and Soleille.

All hail the QUEENS! Fresh off the heels of Queen Latifah becoming the first female hip hop artist to receive a Kennedy Center Honors, we are celebrating women in hip hop. Come share your favorite songs and let’s listen together.

11/30/2022

See you tonight Kansas!❤️🔥👊🏾

A multimedia concert event at the Lied Center of Kansas on Wednesday will take audience members on a live musical journey through the music of the civil rights era.

02/07/2022

Syl Johnson, Chicago soul singer widely sampled in hip-hop, is dead at 85

The singer's 1968 hit "Different Strokes" became a popular hip-hop sample used by artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and Kanye West.

02/02/2022

The Detroit musician wasn’t known to give many interviews, and his influence has grown exponentially since his 2006 death. “Dilla Time” by Dan Charnas explores what drove him.

09/19/2021

Go Paige go! 💪🏿🔥🙌🏾❤️

"I have been a lifelong fan of (Maya) Angelou, (Jean-Michel) Basquiat and specifically of Angelou's poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me. I have taught this poem for many years and look forward to putting my mindful hip hop aesthetic into a devised children's theatre piece.”— Paige Hernandez, Playwright

Multidisciplinary artist Paige Hernandez has been co-commissioned by four major TYA companies to create a theatre piece based on Maya Angelou’s Poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me”.

Read more on TYA Today Online: http://ow.ly/yQ4Q50G9OLF

07/17/2021

Nobody beats the Biz.❤️

Biz Markie, the rapper, singer and actor behind the 1989 hit “Just a Friend,” died Friday in Baltimore. He was 57. “It is with profound sadness that we announce, this evening, with his …

05/21/2021

Nas, Fat Joe, LL Cool J & more broke ground on Hip Hop Museum in The Bronx

The $80 million, 52,000-square-foot Universal Hip Hop Museum is hoping to open in 2024.

04/27/2021

04/08/2021

My girl Daphne A. Brooks decided it’s time to take our stories back into our own hands - and the result is her illuminating new book, “Liner Notes for the Revolution”.

I was so impressed with this book fam. She explores nearly 100 years of musical archives - from Bessie Smith to Beyonce - to re-examine our favorite artistic legends as radical intellectuals.✊🏾

Follow the link for more info!
daphneabrooks.com/

04/06/2021

https://www.okayplayer.com/music/clyde-stubblefield-documentary-funky-drummer-hip-hop.html