The DMV, the acronym for the area comprising Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, boasts a number of the strongest Hip-Hop expertise within the nation and throughout the globe. e Phrases, Beats & Life Inc. (WBL), the longest-running Hip-Hop academic nonprofit group, is internet hosting the DMV HIP HOP 50 live performance that includes homegrown acts comparable to Oddisee, Adé, Nonchalant, and extra.
The DMV’s Hip-Hop historical past is a wealthy one, courting again to the Eighties and exploding within the Nineties with the likes of Opus Akoben, the AMPHBNS crew, graffiti crew EBO, the Soul Controllers combine present on the College of Maryland Faculty Park campus and venues comparable to State of The Union and Kaffa Home, and extra.
Acts comparable to Questionmark Asylum, D.C. Scorpio, Pungent Dink, and the aforementioned Nonchalant helped to develop a lot of the area’s sound past its acquainted Go-Go sound and launched the nation and the world to a different facet of the Nation’s Capital and its bordering lands.
This Saturday (August 12) on the Lincoln Theater, WBL will kick off its DMV HIP HOP present with the globe-trotting Oddisee, now based mostly in Brooklyn, N.Y. however by no means dropping sight of his roots. He’ll be rocking along with his band Good Firm, and his Diamond District cohorts, yU, and Uptown XO are additionally on the invoice. Adé, previously generally known as Phil Adé, continues to be crafting music on the main label stage and Nonchalant is preserving her ft within the recreation working each as an artist and DJ.
The stacked lineup consists of the likes of the gifted Dior Ashley Brown, longtime crew Meridian with Dimes, Noyeek, Idea, El Beta, ane BenOfficial, Prowess The Testomony, Asheru, Substantial, Priest Da Nomad, and the legendary DJ Kool. On the wheels can be space mainstay DJ RBI, and attendees can count on performances from Enoch, Flex Matthews, Odd Mojo, Sub Z, and a homecoming for Freestyle Union founder, Toni Blackman.
In different WBL space happenings, WHINO, a blinding artwork and eating house in Arlington, Va., is internet hosting a Hip-Hop Karaoke occasion TONIGHT (August 11) on Hip-Hop’s fiftieth and invitations attendees to point out off their rapping expertise with all the heavy lyrical lifting carried out for you. All it’s important to do is learn alongside and spit these bars with conviction. Discover out extra in regards to the occasion right here.
When you can’t make both occasion, WBL has its High quality Strains Graffiti and Paint Jam on Sunday (August 13) for a reside session of graffiti artwork and the like. Study extra right here.
To get your tickets for WBL’s DMV HIP HOP 50 live performance, click on right here.
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