Central Park SummerStage – Hip-Hop Performances
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Each year, dozens of free and ticketed live music performances take place in parks across the boroughs—though SummerStage’s home base is Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. Alfresco hip-hop performances this year include Dead Prez, TH1RT3EN and Large Professor at Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn on July 16; Grandmaster Flash at Crotona Park in the Bronx on August 4; old-school rap DJs Stretch Armstrong, Clark Kent, Rich Medina and Tony Touch spinning at Rumsey Playfield in Manhattan on August 5; a massive hip-hop celebration curated by rapper Special Ed at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Amphitheater on August 6; a brunch hip-hop and R&B dance party celebrating the Black diaspora on August 20 at Rumsey Playfield; and the Native Tongues collective celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop on August 20 at Marcus Garvey Park in Manhattan. The new documentary Mixtape, which explores the mixtape’s use in hip-hop culture, will screen at Marcus Garvey Park on August 19 and will include live DJ sets.