![]() The Universal Hip-Hop Museum, which began construction in 2021, is scheduled to open in 2024 as part of the Bronx Point development in New York City.Īlong with preserving the legacy of hip-hop culture, the museum also has plans to create educational and mentorship programs to help develop the next generation of hip-hop icons and entrepreneurs. The mixed-used complex will feature affordable housing, a public park, and community and retail spaces, as well as the museum. The opportunity finally presented itself with the help of Josue Sanchez, senior director of L&M Development Partners and current development partner for Bronx Point. Then they had to find a home for it - a long and complicated process. With the help of Microsoft, they were able to do a tour to garner feedback from other places that contributed to the genre, such as California, Atlanta and Detroit, to see if the idea of a hip-hop museum was feasible. "Everybody was like, 'I get it now, I see it.' You know they say that seeing is believing, and even though the dream was just on paper, people started to see that, OK, we got a game plan now, we got an architect, we have a vision," said Bucano. 1, 1987, one of the prominent hip-hop magazines expected to be displayed in the brick-and-mortar Universal Hip-Hop Museum. Finally, the dream was looking more like a reality. Soon, Michael Ford (a.k.a Hip-Hop Architect) joined the team too, helping put together the architectural designs of what the museum would look like. And then slowly but surely, as long as I kept pushing the dream in front of people, more and more people became interested," he said.Īnd that's exactly what happened: hip-hop legends Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, Nas, and Fat Joe joined in on the dream. "At the beginning, it was like a, you know, a slow locomotive. Although the plans fell through, it opened the door for another idea for the community: a hip-hop museum. At the time, he worked as executive director of a nonprofit organization for a youth basketball team, the New York Gauchos, which was looking for ways to expand and turn the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a sports and entertainment complex. Twelve years ago, the Universal Hip-Hop Museum was just a dream - an "audacious dream," Bucano said. Fox Harrell, to create a new way to imagine the history of hip-hop - with its own metaverse.īut it almost didn't happen. Microsoft is the Universal Hip-Hop Museum's technology partner, and Rocky Bucano and his team are also working with a group from MIT, led by D. This original artwork piece is by Borbay called "Eminem" done in acrylic and collage on canvas.Īdam Silverstein/Universal Hip-Hop Museum The collection also includes an acrylic collage of Eminem on canvas by the artist Borbay, a rare Rocawear Roc-A-Fella black leather tour jacket, a bike signed and used by Snoop Dogg from the MTV sketch show "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle," and every edition of notable hip-hop magazines. They've recently received a donation of massive speakers from the club The Roxy, the original sound system from Pete DJ Jones - who is Rocky's cousin, and one of the original mobile disc jockeys. Nas, left, and LL Cool J attend the Universal Hip-Hop Museum groundbreaking ceremony on May 20, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York.Ĭurrently, UHHM's executive director Rocky Bucano and his team are collecting artifacts and memorabilia from around the globe. The focus of the museum is to highlight the five pillars of hip-hop: DJing, emceeing, break dancing, graffiti, and knowledge. Scheduled to open in 2024, the two-floor Universal Hip-Hop Museum will be located on East 150th Street, attached to the Bronx Point development, in the borough that's legendary as the birthplace of hip-hop. New York City - more importantly, the Bronx - is getting its first museum of hip-hop. NYC is finally getting a hip-hop museum, complete with its own metaverse 03:14
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