9th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Announces Lineup – Adam “MCA” Yauch to be Honored

May 19th, 2013 by David Weiss

The “B” borough will be brimming with beats before you know it.

Prepare for the 9th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival (BHF), happening from July 10th-13th with a powerful lineup lined up. Taking place once again in Brooklyn Bridge Park, tickets are now available for a great series which will include Pusha T, EPMD, Redman, Dizzy Wright and more performing on July 13th.

In addition, an honor for late Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch will be on the program, via a tribute curated by BHF Executive Director Wes Jackson and Brooklyn Bodega DJ Rawbeatz.

Set once more to commence: The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival.

Count on a very memorable experience for days on end. Here are more details, direct from BHF:

The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is more than a music festival; it’s a celebration of Brooklyn and of Hip-Hop. Whatever your particular tastes are, there is someone on the bill that fans of all ages can be excited about and the spontaneous nature of the Festival is the epitome of Hip-Hop, as unexpected guests have become part of the Festival’s allure. Recent festivals have included impromptu performances from Kanye West to Q-Tip who have shown up to support the headliners (mind you, not for one song, but for nearly entire sets). That spontaneity is sure to emerge this year as well, as with EPMD and Redman on the bill; will the “Hit Squad” reunite? Will Kanye and his G.O.O.D. Music brethren join Pusha T (he is after all dropping his debut solo-LP the Tuesday following the festival) and perform? The possibilities are endless.

The Festival will run from July 10th through the 13th and will be headlined by none other than the Funk Doc himself, Redman. Reggie Noble will be joined by the brothers from Brentwood, Long Island, The E Double E and the capital PMD, Erick and Parrish Making Dollars otherwise known as EPMD. Rounding out the headliners are the Bronx born, Virginia bred Pusha T whose album “My Name Is My Name” drops on July 16th, the Tuesday after the Festival, XXL 2013 Freshman Dizzy Wright, and Brooklyn Soul, jazz, funk and gospel outfit Soul Understated.

In addition to headliners Pusha T, EPMD and Redman, Brooklyn Bodega, producers of the Festival will be paying tribute to Adam Yauch aka “MCA” of the Beastie Boys. The founder of the legendary group passed away last year from cancer and the team at Brooklyn Bodega has wanted to pay their respects since the news broke.

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In regards to the tribute, Jackson says, “We reached out to [King] Ad Rock [Adam Horowitz] right after MCA passed last year and asked if there was anything we could do to help celebrate the life of his brother. It was so soon that we were hesitant to even reach out. We wanted to give them space and time. We did speak to Cey Adams [longtime Beasties collaborator and friend] and tried to put something together but the timing wasn’t right. We couldn’t go another year without taking time out to honor what MCA did for our culture and our music.”

On the Final Day of the Festival, July 13th, The Festival will stop for a moment of silence for Yauch and then launch into a tribute curated by Jackson and Bodega DJ, RawBeatz. Brooklyn Bodega will also release an exclusive mix of Beastie songs of remixes from the “Cookie Puss” days all the way to “Hot Sauce Committee”.

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The Festival will kick-off on July 10th with its Bodega Education Initiative (BEI), a political forum at The Brooklyn Historical Society. With the upcoming NYC mayoral election Brooklyn Bodega looks to take the time to sit down with the candidates and discuss issue of civic engagement that affects the Hip-Hop community. We will be discussing the effects of the controversial ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy, arts in our public schools, public performance spaces and what is the city doing to support our the Hip-Hop Committee’s vast network of small businesses.

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The ever popular Salute The DJ (STDJ) series will return for 2013. The event which launched in 2010 has been celebrating various aspects of DJ culture and cementing their place in our history. STDJ salutes Turntablists, Radio DJ’s, crate diggers, and party rockers. DJ Scratch, Rob Swift, DJ Premier, DJ Rhettmatic, Marley Marl, Bobbito Garcia, DJ Spinna and more have graced our stage over the years.

This year the event will be incorporated into the Main Day on July 13th, as its own stage. Stay tuned for more announcements on the next crop of legendary DJ’s The Festival will salute.

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