Two Hip Hop Museums to open in New York

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JT Thompson is the driving force and CEO of The Hip Hop Hall of Fame & Museum, set to open in Harlem in 2020


Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum & Hotel
Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum & Hotel Slated for NYC By 2021
By Hotel Business on December 18, 2018 Finance, Renovations


NEW YORK—The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum & Hotel has signed a term sheet to acquire a building in Manhattan on 125th St. for the museum and hotel project.

The Hip Hop Hall of Fame (HHHOF) team is now actively engaged in a capital campaign to complete the next round of $5 million to close escrow on the site, and another $10 million to complete the museum and hotel design revisions, building permit phases, as well as break ground, according to the organization. The project is slated to open in 2020-21.

The Hip Hop Hall of Fame opened up the project to “private and institutional investors and hip-hop moguls” to be partners in the ownership and development of the Hip Hop Museum’s hotel, residential, and retail components at the mixed-use facility, according to the company.

“This concept is not new, but revolutionary in hip hop music, culture, and business circles. It fits our community’s socio-economic empowerment objectives of harnessing the ‘power of hip hop’ by leading the way, promoting investment and ownership of real estate in urban development and opportunity zone infrastructure projects …,” stated J.T. Thompson, founder/CEO of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame + Museum. In the 1990s, Thompson created, and executive produced the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards Induction Ceremony & Concert on Black Entertainment Television (BET).

The design concept for the proposed 20-story, 140,000-sq.-ft. building will include a museum, five-star hotel, residential apartments, retail mall, gift shop, arcade, TV studios, sports bar, restaurant and concert lounge, according to the company. Promoted as an “urban theme park,” there are plans to produce more than 100 live events and concerts annually.


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Kurtis Blow and Rocky Bucano are the men behind the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx in 2022
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Forthcoming Universal Hip Hop Museum Names Chuck D Chairman of Celebrity Board
By Annie Armstrong Posted 12/19/18 3:26 pm

Chuck D.

COURTESY THE UNIVERSAL HIP HOP MUSEUM

The future Universal Hip Hop Museum—with plans to break ground in the Bronx in December 2019 and an opening scheduled for 2022—named Chuck D of the venerated rap group Public Enemy as chairman of the museum’s so-called “celebrity board.” He was appointed by Rocky Bucano, the museum’s director, as well as rapper Kurtis Blow, who is chairman of the board. In a release, Blow said, “Chuck D is one of the most intelligent and well-respected MCs in the culture of hip hop. The credibility he brings to our team is mammoth. He also understands the importance of the Universal Hip Hop Museum, and vows to let the world know via a star-studded celebrity board in the near future.”

The museum has already secured $20 million in initial funding for its future home in Bronx Point. In the same release, Chuck D said, “My life has been dedicated to the hip hop genre, both serving it as an artist and curating it to share with others, and I want to carry that work over to the Universal Hip Hop Museum. The museum is what we need to organize as a collective and present its history while having a hand in its future.”

Blow added: “Flame on!!

 

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Holding my breath in case the curators are white yet again

 

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Holding my breath in case the curators are white yet again

You are right.
I specifically posted pics of the CEOs because I just heard the story about the one opening in Harlem. I had to look up who JT Thompson was. The investors are going to dictate who the curators are, though.

Funny to see corporate interests co-opt hip hop though. I remember when they wanted nothing to do with it.
I read about the same thing happening to the blues, jazz, and rock n roll. I lived long enough to witness it happen to hip hop.

 

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Holding my breath in case the curators are white yet again

I'd put Khris on it to rest assured

 

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I'd put Khris on it to rest assured

Pretty sure I'm on record here stating how the NMAAHC should've tapped his shoulder during their controversy with Liz. He has his own museum too tho, right?

 

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You are right.
I specifically posted pics of the CEOs because I just heard the story about the one opening in Harlem. I had to look up who JT Thompson was. The investors are going to dictate who the curators are, though.

Funny to see corporate interests co-opt hip hop though. I remember when they wanted nothing to do with it.
I read about the same thing happening to the blues, jazz, and rock n roll. I lived long enough to witness it happen to hip hop.

hip hop might just end up like the other 3.......and fukk nikkas will act like they didnt see it coming even though all the signs are out there now.

 

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December 21, 2022

Senator Gillibrand Secures $3M In Federal Funding For The Universal Hip Hop Museum In The Bronx​

Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced she secured $3 million in funding in the year-end omnibus package to go toward construction of the Universal Hip Hop Museum, which broke ground in the South Bronx in May 2021 and is slated to open in 2024. The omnibus is expected to pass Congress and be signed into law this week.

The Universal Hip Hop Museum aims to become a tourist hub honoring the genre’s influence over art, music, fashion, film, marketing and entertainment, celebrating the pioneers who built the culture, such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, DJ Kool Herc, Run DMC and Notorious B.I.G. The funds attained by Senator Gillibrand will go toward helping support the interior fit out of the facility, which is currently under construction at Bronx Point in the “Boogie Down” borough.

Located in the borough that give birth to the musical genre, the Universal Hip Hop Museum is the only state-chartered educational museum that is focused on the preserving the genre’s deep musical history and celebrating the 5 elements of hip hop’s culture: emceeing, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti art, and knowledge.

 

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Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx getting $5 million boost in federal funds​

January 30, 2023




NEW YORK -- Hip hop will forever be memorialized in the Bronx, thanks to a new museum in the community where it was founded.

And now, that museum is getting a big endorsement to the tune of $5 million.

"This is a down payment because we are planting the seeds for the next generation," Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said.


The federal grant will go toward completing construction of the Universal Hip Hop Museum, funding K-12 educational programming, and building affordable housing in the surrounding neighborhood.

"From the local jobs stimulating the economy, the intersection of education, culture, and hip hop. Making sure our young people have a level playing field, that we balance those scales of justice, so that we are training the next artists, and producers, and DJs, etc. So we know our young people are destined for success," Gibson said.

On Sunday, some of the OGs of hip hop like Grandmaster Flash, and G. Simone came out to celebrate the massive win for the Bronx.

"Rap is something we do. Hip hop is something we live," rapper KRS-One said.

Especially the children of the Bronx.

On behalf of hip hop's educational piece, this is so important," KRS-One said.


Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Jamaal Bowman helped secure the funding.

"Hip hop is such a deeply integral part of New York culture, which has been home to some of the genre's influential and pioneering artists," Gillibrand said. "The $5 million that we were able to secure will not only preserve and celebrate local and global hip hop, it will also honor the music's influence."

The museum broke ground in 2021 and is scheduled to open next year at Bronx Point.

 

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Victim advocates protest opening of Universal Hip Hop Museum over ties to Afrika Bambaataa​

Mar 27, 2023

Members of the group Hip Hop Stands With Survivors held up signs and protested outside of. City Hall Park in lower Manhattan.

The advocates are protesting in the wake of a sex abuse lawsuit against a prominent hip-hop artist with ties to the founding of the museum.
The advocacy group believes that the museum is being run by the Universal Zulu Nation through Rocky Bucano. Bucano spoke about Universal Zulu Nation at the 50th anniversary celebration event held four months ago at City Hall.
“I am thankful we have a strong representation from all the pioneers and the practitioners who have made this culture the most important artform, starting with my brother Grandmaster Flash and the formation of the Zulu Nation,” Bucano said at the City Hall anniversary celebration.

Protesters claim that Bucano still has ties to Zulu Nation, which was founded by Afrika Bambaataa. Both Zulu Nation and Bambaataa are named in a 2021 lawsuit, in which their accuser claims he was sexually abused and sex trafficked as a minor by the defendants several decades ago.

The museum is scheduled to open next year and has been hailed as the first of its kind and a future destination for tourists and local music lovers.

The mayor’s office issued the following statement to News 12:

"The Universal Hip Hop Museum assured the administration that they cut ties with the Universal Zulu Nation and that Afrika Bambaataa has not had a role at the Universal Hip Hop Museum since 2016. Our administration stands with survivors of sexual abuse."

Advocates are encouraging those impacted by sex abuse within the hip-hop community to speak out, and protesters say they will keep the pressure on until their demands are met.

 

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The design concept for the proposed 20-story, 140,000-sq.-ft. building will include a museum, five-star hotel, residential apartments, retail mall, gift shop, arcade, TV studios, sports bar, restaurant and concert lounge, according to the company. Promoted as an “urban theme park,” there are plans to produce more than 100 live events and concerts annually.

all the recent coli museum experts are going to have a field day with this.

 

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Given the money and years and political hurdles it took to get this off the ground, it sounds more like a real museum than what that fraudulent charlatan put together in California by soliciting his merry band of fatherless morons for donations.