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Hip Hop goes home to the Bronx with star-studded ceremony for new museum - North Dallas Gazette

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent Hip Hop started in the South Bronx, the hardscrabble borough in New York City, and on Thursday, May 20, some of the genre’s legends returned to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Universal Hip Hop Museum. “Hip hop is one of those things that really gave my life […]

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