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The 4th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival will kick off July 11th at the Masonic Temple in Fort Greene. For more info, the calendar of events & tickets, visit www.brooklynbodega.com/brooklynhiphopfestival

Previously Posted — Win With Brooklyn Bodega & The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival | Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Media Mixer. 6.23.08. NYC.

Over the past four years, Brooklyn Bodega has been instrumental in working the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Along the way, we (as well as many of you) have been a part of it as well – watching it expand, the list of performers & offerings increase, and the festival as a whole grow beyond what anyone could have hoped. Read the rest of this entry »

Words By Khalid Strickland

On the real, I’m from Brooklyn. Let me re-phrase that: “Um frum Brooklyn”. Pre-gentrification Brooklyn, that is. I didn’t move there once things got sweet like the aliens who claim it as their own now. When I did my tour of duty on the block, people weren’t in front of coffee shops, sippin’ lattes and eating cucumber sandwiches. Back then, niggas held down the corners puttin’ in work, and the drinks we sipped were in 40-ounce bottles, fuck a Starbucks “Grande” cup.

Being that I’m a pillar of the community, it’s only right that I attended the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival’s Media Mixer. For the uninitiated, the BK Hip Hop Festival is an annual concert sponsored by multi-media marketing firms, The Room Service Group and Brooklyn Bodega. The three-day event is held in parks & clubs throughout Downtown BK, of course; past performers include Ghostface Killah, Lupe Fiasco, Sean Price, Talib Kweli, and a slew of other notables. This year’s festival, which takes place on Saturday, July 12th, is also championship caliber and will feature a well-balanced line-up of seasoned veterans and hungry, talented rookies. KRS-ONE, DJ Premier and Buckshot anchor a concert which also boasts the likes of Mickey Factz, Blue & Exile, 88 Keys, Homeboy Sandman and J. Period. BK’s own music-video pioneer and Festival host, the legendary Uncle Ralph McDaniel’s, personifies the phrase coined by Pimpin’ Ken Ivey: “Internationally Known, Nationally Recognized and Locally Respected”.

The good folks at Brooklyn Bodega and The Room Service Group put together the Media Mixer so that journalists could chop it up with the BHF’s performing artists. To sweeten the deal, the famous Brooklyn Brewery provided enough free lager to intoxicate a small army. Buckshot, another genuine Brooklynite, showed up to meet the press. Read the rest of this entry »