11 TV Hill: 50 years later, hip-hop has big influence on Baltimore music

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PLEASURE. WELL, 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, A BLOCK PARTY IN THE BRONX CHANGED THE COURSE OF MUSIC HISTORY ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THIS WEEKEND. CITIES AND FANS PAYING TRIBUTE AND CELEBRATING THE CULTURE THAT HIP HOP CREATED. IT’S INFLUENCE HAS BEEN SEEN THROUGH MANY GENERATIONS, DEFINING IT. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, YOU CAN SEE THE IMPACT OF HIP HOP CULTURE FROM FASHION TO ART AND EVEN MODERN TELEVISION AND ITS INFLUENCE. LOCAL MUSIC BALTIMORE CLUB MUSIC COULD NOT EXIST IF IT WEREN’T FOR THE RISE OF THE DJ CLUB. MUSIC, IN TURN, CAN BE HEARD IN SOME OF TODAY’S BIGGEST RAP SONGS IN TERMS OF IT BEING A 50TH ANNIVERSARY. IT’S AMAZING. I MEAN, TO GO FROM LIKE LISTENING TO CASSETTES IN A BOOM BOX OF LIKE THE COLD CRUSH BROTHERS AND THE FOURSOME SEEDS AND ALL OF THESE EARLY RAP GROUPS THAT WERE TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE FIVE BOROUGHS IN NEW YORK AND WRITING RHYMES ON AN IRONING BOARD TO CELEBRATING 50 YEARS ON THE BIGGEST STAGE IS IN ARENAS. AND, YOU KNOW, WITH PEOPLE COMING WHO HAVE GROWN UP WITH THE CULTURE, IT’S IT’S AN AMAZING FEELING. ON FRIDAY. LL COOL J BROUGHT HIS FOURTH TOUR TO BALTIMORE CFG BANK ARENA. WE ASKED WHAT HE THINKS HIP HOP’S LEGACY MAY BE IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS. I THINK LEGACY IS DECIDED BY BY THE PEOPLE WHO WHO WHO OBSERVE IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING? DA VINCI DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE MONA LISA MEANT. YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING? TO TO PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY THE PEOPLE DECIDE. PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED TO LOVE IT OVER 50 YEARS. THAT’S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF 11 TV. HILL. THANKS FOR JOINING US. WE’LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

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