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The music genre hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with events across the United States. A Los Angeles art gallery is showing photographs of hip-hop legends. Genia Dulot visited the gallery and files this report.
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Transcript/Script((PLAYBOOK SLUG: US – HIP-HOP AT 50
HEADLINE: Artists Mark 50 Years of Hip-Hop
TEASER: LA gallery showcasing unique photos of music legends
PUBLISHED AT: 08/15/2023 at 8:50AM
BYLINE: Genia Dulot
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DATELINE: Los Angeles
VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot
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((INTRO)) [[ The music genre hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with events across the United States. A Los Angeles art gallery is showing photographs of hip-hop legends. Genia Dulot visited the gallery and files this report.]]
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The Morrison Hotel Gallery in Los Angeles is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop with a photo exhibit. American photographer Bob Gruen is showing his picture of Malcolm McLaren, who was one of the pioneers of hip-hop in the early 1980s.
((Bob Gruen, Photographer))
“His album “Buffalo Gals” has been sampled by hundreds and hundreds other albums that followed because something you had to do is take some amount of sounds in order to make a hip hop album.”
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In 1988, photographer Timothy White took this picture of the not-yet-famous rapper Jay-Z.
((Timothy White, Photographer))
“It’s a voice, it’s a clear voice of a generation, of a culture that has become something else. It’s become part of musical consciousness. It’s become something of its own, its own genre. And it’s powerful. It’s a whole generation. It’s 50th anniversary, it’s 50 years, there are 50-year-olds who grew up only on that music.”
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Photographer Cheryl Fox has been documenting hip-hop stars for decades. She says hip-hop inspires confident women both in front of the camera and behind it. This is a 2012 photo of entertainer Rihanna, who has incorporated various genres into her work.
((Cheryl Fox, Photographer))
“She’s good in her skin, she knows her talents, and she believes in herself, and that’s how women make it in hip-hop. They are like unicorns. We are like unicorns. Even people say to me like “Oh, my God, you captured all these people, in this male-dominated space!” And I’m like: 'Yeah.’ And they’re like: 'You are a unicorn.’ But we know who we are as women in hip-hop.”
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Celebrations of the music and the art it has inspired continue throughout 2023, marking 50 years since music scholars say hip-hop was born at a party in the New York borough of the Bronx in 1973.
((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Los Angeles))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)
in Los Angeles
Embargo DateAugust 15, 2023 20:30 EDT
Byline
Genia Dulot, for VOA News
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
