{"id":2699,"date":"2023-08-11T04:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T04:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:50:11","slug":"50-years-of-hip-hop-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/50-years-of-hip-hop-watch","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop: See New Listening Room Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On August 11th, 1973, a back-to-school party in the Bronx became the birth of a sonic revolution. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0VcTIm4tmf91b3mWd8lVuQ?si=g24wLFzbQWO36aYruYKQOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DJ Kool Herc<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> decided to try some sounds for his sister\u2019s get together\u2014rap breakdowns, and an extended beat to let people dance with his signature move, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7qwml-F7zKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cmerry go round\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The rest is history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To mark the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11th, we\u2019ve created an ultra special edition of our Listening Room series, Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve invited five artists to capture five iconic tracks, one for each decade, with dynamic takes on songs from <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3Mcii5XWf6E0lrY3Uky4cA?si=FzQZQsnARMCR5lqUj3SRCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ice Cube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg?si=f7fSilkFTJWBpDkejypOOw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>, and more. Hear <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1qH7l0NhbPqaVbDWiw4JLf?si=vn6WgHyZQI6YHcvbPtvFXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ShySpeaks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/033UemSvGVe9WBWUpJ02Fp?si=HtgkOBwkTEiMZNBd5WYT2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mel Chant\u00e9<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5PlqLpoCAXsG230DjaGDy0?si=oblwQ4akQO-Y0C2pJfoVjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seefour<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Arrow, The Symbol, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/7HXr3w238HsQoQInMLxosZ?si=D6-54FQjR5-E89H4oJruCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BD3 <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">honor the legends in this new Listening Room performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Compilation | Sofar Listening Room\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPOvsNPQ3uA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in person? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/celebrations\/50th-anniversary-of-hip-hop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Browse these special shows.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Words by Sofar Editorial Team <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 11th, 1973, a back-to-school party in the Bronx became the birth of a sonic revolution. DJ Kool Herc decided to try some sounds for his sister\u2019s get together\u2014rap breakdowns, and an extended beat to let people dance with his signature move, the \u201cmerry go round\u201d. The rest is history.\u00a0 To mark the 50th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[416,425,287,427,428,426,252,424,423,429],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-50th-anniversary-of-hip-hop","tag-arrow","tag-bd3","tag-ice-cube","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-listening-room","tag-mel-chante","tag-seefour","tag-shyspeaks","tag-the-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}