24/01/2023
Tomorrow night The Cannon
Wednesday January 25th
21+ / No Cover / 8pm
Playing the best (and worst) old school hip hop, rap, and R&B videos all night.
100% Vegetarian Kitchen open until 10pm
Funky fresh drink specials all night.
Plenty of Non-Achoholic drink options too.
Sometime in the late 80s/ early 90s rap and hip hop went from the underground to a major part of American and global culture. By 1986 RUN DMC was collaborating with Aerosmith. In 1989 the Arsenio Hall Show began to bring many heavy hitters from the hip hop and rap world to homes across America, and his house band even played the 1992 Clinton inauguration. MTV had been bringing much of the hip hop world to TVs across the planet, especially with their show Yo!, MTV Raps. In Living Color brought the Fly Girls and many aspects of Hip Hop culture to a very wide audience.
This paved the way for many artists in the 90s/ 2000s including 50 cent, Nelly, Beastie Boys, 2Pac, MC Hammer, Notorious B.I.G. Eminem, Outkast to all sell tens of millions of albums. Rap and Hip Hop was no longer a niche market, but became very widespread with a wide range of people.
I grew up as a young kid west of Detroit where we were watching Martin and In Living Color. I had a Bobby Brown tape I brought to show in tell in 2nd grade back in 1992. I would go to the roller rink and hear whatever new Death Row album was being put out. At my middle school dances, you better believe some R&B jams like Usher and Boyz II Men were being played for the slow dance. I was much more of a rocker/ metalhead, but I still knew all of the Rap/ Hip Hop/ R&B hits, because it was so embedded in the culture of America at the time that it was unavoidable.
So this is going to be a party where we revisit the music videos of the past. I'll throw down some newer tracks too, but I'm trying to primarily focus on the bangers I would have heard at the Roller Rink or at a school dance sometime in the 90s... only now we're old so there's a bar, I can play the explicit versions, and nobody gets grounded if they don't make it home for their midnight curfew.
Be excellent to each other.
Tip your bartenders.
No fighting, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc
