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to the hip hip, hop-a you don’t stop” all the way back in 1979, on the first rap track to break the Billboard 100, “Rapper’s Delight.” Now, 50 years on, hip-hop shows no signs of stopping soon, just as Mike predicted way back when. What you hear is not a test: depending on how you measure it, hip-hop and rap have now been a part of the culture for half a century.

There was a brief moment during Hip Hop 50 Live — an epic celebration of the golden anniversary of hip-hop that stretched from Friday night into Saturday morning at New York’s Yankee Stadium— that provided a quick reality check.In between Kid Capri’s DJ set and a breakdancing segment featuring Rock Steady Crew legend Crazy Legs, Yankee legend Derek Jeter crashed what felt like the world’s biggest block party and reminded you that it was actually the home of the Bronx Bombers.But on this unforgettable night, the stadium belonged to hip-hop — the music and the game-changing culture that was fathered by DJ Kool Herc at a party in the South Bronx 50 years ago on Aug. 11, 1973.And with a loaded lineup that included golden-age groundbreakers (Run-DMC, Slick Rick), West Coast rap royalty (Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube) and new-millennium masters (Lil Wayne, T.I.), the marathon, seven-hour-plus concert felt like the Live Aid of hip-hop.

Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens.“I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who was in the eighth grade — walked into the schoolyard with a flat Panasonic tape recorder that all the kids would use [back when] there were no boomboxes,” DMC, 59, told The Post.“And he said, ‘Yo, come listen to this!’ He pushed play, I heard a beat … and it was about, like, a minute and 30 seconds of this guy rapping over this little drum beat.

 Karl Jordan Jr., and Ronald Washington — were previously indicted in August 2020 in the death of 37-year-old Mizell, who was shot and killed at his recording studio after a drug deal went bad on Oct. 30, 2002.Bryant’s attorney, César de Castro, told the Associated Press in an email that he and his client had just learned of the charges.