The Bronx School of Hip-Hop welcomed its inaugural freshman class of about 100 students.<\/p>\n
“This is our first school ever in hip-hop! I started off dancing, rapping. I feel like it’s going to be a fun experience for me for sure,” student Xavian Sanchez said.<\/p>\n
The school at 1600 Webster Ave. aims to use the five elements of hip-hop, emceeing, DJing, breaking, graffiti and knowledge of self, to teach traditional school subjects. Other courses include audio production, digital media and financial literacy.<\/p>\n
The school is the first of its kind in New York City.<\/p>\n
“The idea is that hip-hop becomes the hook, the anchor, and then rigorous learning will follow,” Chris Emdin, a member of the advisory board at the Bronx School of Hip-Hop, said.<\/p>\n
The building is also heavily influenced by music, artwork and tributes, which are on display throughout the halls, featuring artists like Lauryn Hill and the Notorious B.I.G. A sign outside the building reads “Hip-Hop is Home.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a double entendre,” the founding principal of the Bronx School of Hip-Hop said. “Hip-hop is home is here in the Bronx, where it started, with this school. And hip-hop is home, our home. We feel at home.”<\/p>\n
Some Bronx hip-hop legends joined students in the courtyard at dismissal to mark the occasion, including Melle Mel and Fat Joe.<\/p>\n
“The Bronx created hip-hop,” rapper Fat Joe said, “Everyone across the world enjoys hip-hop culture and so it’s only right that we show our kids some pride.”<\/p>\n
Each year, the school plans to welcome a new class, eventually having grades nine through 12 within the next four years.<\/p>\n
It’s one of five new schools opening across the city, including the Bronx School of Arts & Exploration and three other schools in Queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bronx School of Hip-Hop welcomed its inaugural freshman class of about 100 students. “This is our first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-344874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344874","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=344874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}