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Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High reunite following the success of their show for young people The Broke 'N' Beat Collective. Big Up! is a show for 3 to 6 year olds to share with everyone that looks after them, combining hip-hop, puppetry and live music.

The Official Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum & Hotel is proud to announce that they have finally signed a term sheet to acquire its Harlem building and development site on 125th St for its long awaited Uptown Manhattan project. The Hip Hop Hall of Fame team is now actively engaged in its capital campaign to complete its next round of $5M to close escrow on the site, and another $10M to complete its building & hotel design revisions, and building permits phases to break ground and open in 2020-21.

WE tv's 'Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition' Premieres 1/0, Featuring Soulja Boy, Waka Flocka, Lil' Mo, Plus More!

Passion, hard work and honesty are three things every rising hip-hop artist must have to succeed.  Today, 1800® Tequila and hip-hop legend Pusha-T have partnered to find 10 aspiring hip-hop artists with those values to launch 1800 Seconds (:1800), a new recording and artist discovery platform that gives unsigned artists a chance to write and release one new three-minute track with the full production and marketing support of a record label.  

The Orlando by way of Brazil based artist NIKO IS just dropped his new video “Coca” via Hip Hop DX. The “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” meets Los Angeles inspired video features NIKO with producer and collaborator Thanks Joey. Directed by Narcy, the video is true to the Hunter S. Thompson aesthetic, depicting the two characters in a distorted version of reality as they lounge in a convertible under the sun and bum around the beach. NIKO says of the song,'Music is like dope. Music Makes people feel invincible. We wanted to capture that in audio form. Fear and loathing in tropicalia. NARCY filmed the video and executed our vision perfectly. Gonzo. Puro.”

The Hip Hop Nutcracker (www.hiphopnutcracker.com), a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky's timeless music will play the Fabulous Fox Theatre today, November 30 at 8:00 p.m.   Produced by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) with Executive Producer, Eva Price, and co-commissioned by the United Palace of Cultural Arts, The Hip Hop Nutcracker will feature MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop's founding fathers, opening the show in most cities with a short set before rapping the introduction.

VH1 and reVolver Podcasts have teamed up to launch Love & Hip Hop: The Tea, the official podcast for VH1's powerhouse 'Love & Hip Hop' franchise. Launching Monday, November 26th immediately following the season premiere of 'Love & Hip Hop: New York' at 8PM ET/PT, Love & Hip Hop: The Tea will feature show recaps and insider scoop on the biggest moments of each episode and pop culture at large. Love & Hip Hop: The Tea will be hosted by Jesse Janedy, TK Trinidad and Lem Gonsalves. Fans can tune in weekly and subscribe to Love & Hip Hop: The Tea on reVolver Podcasts as well as Spotify, Google Play, iHeartMedia and Apple Podcasts.

The Hip Hop Nutcracker returns to Playhouse Square on December 9.

Theatre Royal Stratford East announces that on Friday 14 December at 8pm, the award-winning improvised comedy group Shoot From The Hip will perform at Theatre Royal Stratford East, following two successful shows earlier this year.

4-time Juno award-winning hip-hop group Swollen Members have released their first-ever live album entitled 'Live At The Fox Theatre'. The 14-track album captures the group's explosive live show on record for the first time at a sold-out show in Boulder, CO during the Black Magic Tour.

The Kentucky Center Presents Louisville Hip Hopera, Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 8 p.m. at The Kentucky Center - Bomhard Theater, 501 W. Main St.

A holiday mash-up for the entire family, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary re-imagining of Tchaikovsky's timeless music performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, an on-stage DJ, and an electric violinist. Through the spell cast by the mysterious Drosselmeyer, Maria-Clara and her Nutcracker prince travel back in time to the moment when her parents first meet in a 1980s' Brooklyn nightclub. MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop's founding fathers, will open the show with a short set before rapping the introduction.

Today, Osaka-born Joji, is happy to announce that his album BALLADS 1 has debuted at #3 on this week's Billboard 200 albums and #1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart with over 57,000 units earned. This makes Joji the first Asian-born artist to top Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Click here to listen to it now. Upon release, the album immediately hit #1 on the iTunes R&B charts and has quickly amassed over 250 million global streams since it dropped on October 26.

Today, indie Hip-Hop duo Atmosphere drop the Jason Goldwatch-directed video for 'Graffiti' via Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Paramount Theatre Presents The Hip Hop Nutcracker (www.hiphopnutcracker.com), a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky's timeless music, celebrates its 5th year anniversary and hits the road this holiday season at Asbury Park's Paramount Theatre on Thursday, December 13th at 7:30 p.m.

Take a Swedish Band (that isn't technically a band) and a handful of brilliant Baltimore based improvisers, and what do you get? The Siegfried Olsson Band presents Too Hip for the Room, a sketch comedy show that combines the talents of YouTube sketch group, the Siegfried Olsson Band with members of the Baltimore Improv Group, and the Baltimore/DC area producer of Mortified.

Three established Bay Area performance organizations are coming together to create a new immersive multidisciplinary experience, offering a future vision of catharsis, engagement, and optimism, so needed in this cultural moment. The powerful storytelling of Crowded Fire Theater and playwright Star Finch, the musical and poetic impetus of Ensemble Mik Nawooj, and the diverse and unique physical rhythms of AXIS Dance Company come together at the beautiful Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre. In this immersive study of aesthetics, the artists merge hip-hop, contemporary dance, and theater into a boundary-pushing work featuring a 12-person orchestra; a work which challenges the conventions of performing arts at large while creating a future vision that can be replicated in communities in need of healing throughout the country.

To continue its 25th anniversary season, Hyde Park School of Dance (HPSD) offers fans of ballet, modern and hip hop its annual presentation of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, featuring more than 175 dancers—from seven-year-olds to grandparents, including members of the pre-professional Studio Company and senior dancers who have grown up at the school— supported by more than 100 volunteers. Performances are December 14–16 at Mandel Hall on the University of Chicago campus, 1131 E. 57th Street, Chicago.

The Apollo Theater is proud to present a special one night only concert featuring the return of hip-hop mega group and Harlem's own The Diplomats, popularly known as Dipset as they reunite to launch a new album. The special event will take place on November 23 at 8 p.m.

Olivier award-winning actor, 'the nation's favourite pantomime dame', and star of BBC's The Story of Tracey Beaker, Clive Rowe will star as 'Mr Badger' in the UK tour of IN THE WILLOWS, a brand new musical from the award-winning Metta Theatre, opening at the Exeter Northcott on 22 February 2019, and touring the UK until June.

Take a Swedish Band (that isn't technically a band) and a handful of brilliant Baltimore based improvisers, and what do you get? The Siegfried Olsson Band presents Too Hip for the Room, a sketch comedy show that combines the talents of YouTube sketch group, the Siegfried Olsson Band with members of the Baltimore Improv Group, and the Baltimore/DC area producer of Mortified. 

A new contemporary dance show based on the Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist, is heading to stages in Chester and Liverpool this Autumn.

The Oracle Group announces Former Cash Money Records artist Tab 'Hot Boy Turk' Virgil Jr. takes you on a journey of deep spiritual and mental growth as he reveals how he dealt with the struggles of growing up in the infamous New Orleans' Uptown Magnolia Projects, his heroin and cocaine addiction, his incarceration, and how he survived the challenges thrown his way with pure grit, tenacity, and the unconditional love from his family in his new book, 'The AutoThugOgraphy of Turk' (Hardcover: Wahida Clark Publishing: ISBN: 978-1947732216).

Micaya is pleased to present the 20th Anniversary of the San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest (SFIHHDF), featuring groundbreaking hip-hop performances from 14 dance companies from around the world.