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New York City Council Spends 1.5 Million For Hip-hop Museum
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Over 30 years of hip-hop culture has gone by and now the city of New York will build a museum to trace all the hip-hop history. The New York City Council has put aside $1.5 million to construct the “Hip-Hop museum” and its home will be where it all started… the Bronx.
The museum’s mandate is, according to Allhiphop.com, to “trace Hip-Hop from its origins in the 1970′s and be used as a forum to educate future generations about Hip-Hop culture.”
City Council members, Larry Seabrook (who spearheaded the funding) and John Liu have both been very vocal about the difference between rap music and hip-hop culture.
“We’re not talking about gangster rap,” Seabrook said. “We’re talking about hip-hop.”
Both have expressed a need for hip-hop culture to not become synonymous with the violent goings-on connected with the music industry – such as celebrity shootings at the now infamous Hot 97.
“It is precisely the crap that goes on at Hot 97 and Power 105 that is the reason we need a way to memorialize what hip-hop really is, and not this commercial bastardization that has occurred,” Liu said.
