The beat selection is very old-school hip-hop and boom-bap influenced, with classic samples and production contributed by DJ Premier, Statik Selektah, J Dilla and Kirk Knight.

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The Rock the Bells Festival, presented LL Cool J showcased some of the genre’s best from the 1980s and 1990s at Prudential Center in Newark.

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Hip-hop and film audiences know him as Slaine. He began rapping in the 90's and established a music career years before Ben Affleck tapped him to play Bubba Rogowski in "Gone Baby Gone" (2007).

“To understand the power of hip-hop today, you gotta go back to where it all started,” LL Cool J narrates the clip as he walks the blocks of The Bronx where DJ Kool Herc once spun in the ’70s.

With the next iteration, there’s an opportunity to add more figures, such as Lil’ Kim, Eve, Da Brat, and others, to demonstrate the essential role women artists play in hip-hop culture as a whole.

Doechii played a earth-shattering set at Glastonbury 2025 last night, and served a masterclass in hip-hop. Check out the full NME review here.