The DMV, the acronym for the area comprising Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, boasts a few of the strongest Hip-Hop expertise within the nation and throughout the globe. e Phrases, Beats & Life Inc. (WBL), the longest-running Hip-Hop instructional nonprofit group, is internet hosting the DMV HIP HOP 50 live performance that includes homegrown acts resembling Oddisee, Adé, Nonchalant, and extra.

The DMV’s Hip-Hop historical past is a wealthy one, courting again to the Eighties and exploding within the Nineteen Nineties with the likes of Opus Akoben, the AMPHBNS crew, graffiti crew EBO, the Soul Controllers combine present on the College of Maryland School Park campus and venues resembling State of The Union and Kaffa Home, and extra.

Acts resembling Questionmark Asylum, D.C. Scorpio, Smelly Dink, and the aforementioned Nonchalant helped to increase a lot of the area’s sound past its acquainted Go-Go sound and launched the nation and the world to a different aspect of the Nation’s Capital and its bordering lands.

This Saturday (August 12) on the Lincoln Theater, WBL will kick off its DMV HIP HOP present with the globe-trotting Oddisee, now based mostly in Brooklyn, N.Y. however by no means dropping sight of his roots. He’ll be rocking together with his band Good Firm, and his Diamond District cohorts, yU, and Uptown XO are additionally on the invoice. Adé, previously often known as Phil Adé, continues to be crafting music on the main label degree and Nonchalant is maintaining her toes within the sport working each as an artist and DJ.

The stacked lineup contains the likes of the gifted Dior Ashley Brown, longtime crew Meridian with Dimes, Noyeek, Concept, El Beta, ane BenOfficial, Prowess The Testomony, Asheru, Substantial, Priest Da Nomad, and the legendary DJ Kool. On the wheels might be space mainstay DJ RBI, and attendees can anticipate performances from Enoch, Flex Matthews, Odd Mojo, Sub Z, and a homecoming for Freestyle Union founder, Toni Blackman.

In different WBL space happenings, WHINO, a blinding artwork and eating area in Arlington, Va., is internet hosting a Hip-Hop Karaoke occasion TONIGHT (August 11) on Hip-Hop’s fiftieth and invitations attendees to point out off their rapping abilities with the entire heavy lyrical lifting carried out for you. All it’s important to do is learn alongside and spit these bars with conviction. Discover out extra in regards to the occasion right here.

If you happen to can’t make both occasion, WBL has its High quality Traces Graffiti and Paint Jam on Sunday (August 13) for a stay session of graffiti artwork and the like. Be taught extra right here.

To get your tickets for WBL’s DMV HIP HOP 50 live performance, click on right here.

Be taught extra about WBL right here.

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