If the all-star salute to the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop on the sixty fifth annual Grammy Awards left you wanting extra, the Grammys have extra on the best way. A two-hour, Grammy-branded particular will tape on Aug. 11, which is the fiftieth anniversary (to the day!) of a back-to-school celebration in The Bronx that many level to as the start of hip-hop tradition. CBS will broadcast the particular later this yr.
Questlove, who curated the 15-minute spot on Sunday’s Grammy telecast, may have a job in the particular, although his precise title is to be decided. Jesse Collins, an government producer of the Grammy telecast, will produce the particular.
While many will assume that the success of the spot on the Grammy telecast led CBS to hurry a particular into manufacturing, the particular was in the works earlier than anybody knew there could be a phase on the telecast, in accordance to a supply.
Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, hinted on the upcoming particular in a press release asserting the telecast phase. “For five decades, Hip Hop has not only been a defining force in music, but a major influence on our culture,” he stated. “Its contributions to art, fashion, sport, politics, and society cannot be overstated. I’m so proud that we are honoring it in such a spectacular way on the Grammy stage. It is just the beginning of our year-long celebration of this essential genre of music.”
Questlove has talked about the upcoming particular in his post-Grammy tweets. Talking about why sure artists have been booked for the hip-hop tribute and others weren’t, he tweeted:
The hip-hop phase on the Grammy telecast, which featured three dozen rap acts, drew common reward. Billboard’s Joe Lynch pegged it as the most effective efficiency on the telecast. “While it’s an impossible task to sum up 50 years of any genre (much less one that fought for decades to get a modicum of mainstream respect and eventually became the dominant genre in American music), this electrifying medley brought to vivid life the charged personalities, thumping grooves, deft deliveries and unpredictable flourishes that make hip-hop a global force.”
The phase was produced by Questlove, Collins, Patrick Menton of Fulwell 73, inventive producer Fatima Robinson and Shawn Gee, Questlove’s supervisor and president of LNU. The phase is a part of Paramount Global’s companywide initiative to honor the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop.
The Grammys haven’t at all times been hip-hop supporters. The Grammys didn’t have a devoted class for rap or hip-hop till the 1988 awards, which have been offered on Feb. 22, 1989. D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s genial pop hit “Parents Just Don’t Understand” was the primary hip-hop recording to win a Grammy (finest rap efficiency). But they weren’t invited to carry out on the present that yr.
A yr later, on Feb. 21, 1990, the duo grew to become the primary hip-hop act to carry out on the Grammys. “We’d like to dedicate this performance to all the rappers last year that stood with us and helped us to earn the right to be on this stage tonight,” Will Smith stated earlier than he and D.J. Jazzy Jeff launched into “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson.”
Both Questlove and Collins are coming off main honors for his or her work. Questlove received each an Oscar (his first) and a Grammy (his sixth) in 2022 for steering the documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). Collins received his first Primetime Emmy in 2022 as an government producer of The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, which was voted excellent selection particular (dwell).
CBS, which has broadcast the Grammy telecast since 1973, will air a second Grammy-branded particular this yr – A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys. The particular, the newest in a sequence of “Grammy Salute” specials, shall be taped on Wednesday, Feb. 8 on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The Beach Boys and hip-hop are in very totally different musical worlds, in fact, but it surely’s value noting that the Beach Boys had a large hit in 1987 (No. 12 hit on the Hot 100) with a collab with the Brooklyn rap trio Fat Boys. The two teams teamed for a remake of The Surfaris’ 1963 traditional “Wipeout.”
The truth {that a} quintessential American vocal group teamed with a rap group 36 years in the past is extra proof, as if any extra have been wanted, of hip-hop’s attain and endurance.
Discussion about this post