‘Hip-Hop 50 Live at Yankee Stadium’ All-Star Music Director on Working With Run-DMC, Lil Wayne and More

variety.com:

A.D. Amorosi Hip-hop may belong to the world now, but there’s little question that the sound and culture that took over the world had its start in the New York City borough of the Bronx in the summer of 1973, where DJ Kool Herc and others held neighborhood block parties — mixing, scratching and rhyming over records.

In observance of that anniversary, Run D.M.C. some of the biggest names in hip-hop history will return to the Bronx tonight (Aug.

11), taking the borough’s biggest stage, Yankee Stadium — so close and yet so far from its birthplace. The lineup includes New York legends Run D.M.C. (in what they say is their last performance), Nas, Fat Joe, Ghostface, EPMD, Remy Ma, Melle Mel, Lil Kim and Kool Herc, along with Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and more in a daylong festival of hits under the baton of Adam Blackstone, who’ll serve as its managing creative music director along with keyboardist Omar Edwards.

The Yankee Stadium HH50 concert will also livestream, beginning at 6 p.m. ET, exclusively via Mass Appeal’s YouTube channel, presented by Google Pixel. (See Variety‘s “50 Greatest Hip-Hop Executives of All Time” feature here.) “Performing at Yankee Stadium, and in the Bronx, for hip-hop’s 50th anniversary is extremely special to me,” Fat Joe tells Variety. “I’ve watched hip-hop grow from being played at Bronx parties on the block to becoming the biggest genre in the world.