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If youre a Hip-Hop head like SBC, then dont miss the last weekend to Rock the Bells (RTBs) at this national festival. Saturday, August 28th take the Ferry to Governors Island, NYC or Sunday, August 29th drive to Merriweather Pavilion, Columbia, MD, rain or shine, its hands in the air.
RTBs inaugural event was held in 2004 in Southern California, inspired from the infamous Club Utopia, which embraced the ideologies of real hip hop. Is “real” hip-hop commercial hip-hop these days?
Experiencing RTBs youll witness ol’ school hip-hop DNA: at least one mic drop, the presence of turntables, (scratching wasn’t invented on Ipods or MacBooks), crazy cadence and flow, with phat beats, talented, intelligent emcees will tell hip-hop tales or simply entertain you with rhythmic bars that chronicle everything from the day-to-day, to clever metaphors that expand your consciousness to higher levels.
Though the national festival is monetized by way of Southern California, many of the showstoppers are 1980′s and 90′s East Coast hip-hop icons. The movement united by love of the culture…perhaps?
Chang Weisberg, the brainchild of the Rock the Bells festival, spread his love for hip-hip in 2007, releasing Rock the Bells, the movie. Weisberg personified his entrepreneurial, make-it-happen, hip-hop spirit, by documenting his withGuerilla Unions’ fight (the festival production company) for the arrival of ALL NINE Wu-Tang Clan members (with O.D.B) to show up and perform as planned at the festival. Available on DVD, view the trailer here, Rock the Bells, The Movie.
Rock the Bells and Hip-Hop, Shine Brightly!
