Brooklynites came together on a warm summer night for an evening rooted in lyricism, community and hip hop culture. <\/p>\n
On Friday, Aug. 18th, multiple generations of longtime hip hop fans and listeners\u00a0gathered in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park to celebrate\u00a0Lyricist Lounge’s 35th anniversary<\/a> at the Lena Horne Bandshell. \u00a0<\/p>\n The pioneering hip hop platform was founded\u00a0in 1991 by Anthony Marshall and Danny Castro.\u00a0It started as an open mic event to showcase artists\u00a0in a small apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and\u00a0quickly became an underground platform for some of the genre’s most influential voices.\u00a0Presented by BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!<\/a>, the free outdoor concert featured a wide range of established and emerging artists\u00a0representing NYC\u2019s underground and independent hip hop scene.<\/p>\n Performances included Nems, Northside Lord, Legendary Cyphers, Jourden Cox, Chris E. Bandz, Swerv Stacks, Bub Styles, Pro Dillinger, Lil Dee, Noah-O, Chubs and Cosi Pari while DJ Ant Marshall (co-founder) and DJ Trase kept the energy moving throughout the celebration.<\/p>\n Closing out the night with an electrifying performance was headliner, Yonkers native and LOX founding member Jadakiss. Known for his sharp lyricism and gritty delivery, he ended the evening with some of his greatest hits and fan favorites such as \u201cWe Gonna Make It\u201d and \u201cKnock Yourself Out.”<\/p>\n More than three decades after Lyricist Lounge first became a safe haven for lyricists, its tradition continues with another generation stepping to the mic.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklynites came together on a warm summer night for an evening rooted in lyricism, community and hip hop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}