Whilst we're on the subject of hip hop, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History recently announced that it was creating a new permanent hip hop exhibit, 'Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes, The Life', launched with funding donated by Def Dam mogul Russell Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and Universal Music.
The project's curator, Marvette Perez, has been speaking to AllHipHop.com about it: "We want to do it the right. We want to go and start with the South Bronx with the people who were there in the beginning doing itv - breakdancers, graffiti artists, MCs, DJs. We want to collect the technology of it, the posters, the photographs, oral histories and take it globally. [Hip hop] will be around forever so we need to get with it."
Perez continued: "There [are] a lot of misconceptions about what hip hop is, among people who are not connected to the music itself. I think the Smithsonian is a great place to dismiss those misconceptions, to educate people and to create a space where we can look at this truly wonderful American cultural phenomenon."