Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop
In Celebration of 50 years of Hip Hop, Kurtis Blow and other Hip Hop legends performed, accompanied by 200 breakdancers, MC’s, DJ’s, and live graffiti art, with master breakdance choreography by King Charles and Kelli Forman, and epic graffiti art by King Cre8 and Steve Cas.
Kurtis had the crowd moving as he broke out with "The Breaks". This is a 1980 single by American rapper Kurtis Blow from his self-titled debut album. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first certified gold rap song, and the second certified gold 12-inch single. In 2008, the song ranked #10 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.
Hip hop, also known as rap, and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans in the Bronx, a borough of New York City
