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Nas, LL Cool J, Fat Joe and more break ground on site of new Universal Hip Hop Museum
Nas, LL Cool J, Lil Kim, Fat Joe and an array of other rap legends gathered in the Bronx last Friday (May 21) to break ground on a site that will soon home the newly-funded Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM).The UHHM has been dubbed the first-ever museum solely dedicated to rap music, chronicling the rise of the genre across the globe and highlighting its continuing DIY roots.Grandmaster Flash, Naughty By Nature, Slick Rick, Michael Bivins and EMPD were also in attendance to celebrate the physical beginnings of a project that has been a decade in the making.“Hip hop is one of those things that really gave my life meaning,” LL Cool J said at the ceremony.