The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards induction ceremony and concert television show returns to New York for a taping in midtown Manhattan on May 19.
To be co-hosted by female MC Roxanne Shanté, a founding member of seminal hip hop collective the Juice Crew and central figure in the so-called "Roxanne Wars," this will be the first broadcast of the show since it first aired nationally on BET in the 1996. (Organizers have said competition from the Source Hip-Hop Awards, which has been televised on UPN and BET, in part hindered plans to bring the award show back to TV.)
"The BET show inductions included Run DMC with Jam Master Jay, the Godfather of Hip Hop DJ Kool Herc, and DJs Grandmaster Flash, Kool DJ Red Alert, and others Included the Zulu Nation, Easy E and more that will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame Hip Hop Museum in Midtown," commented JT Thompson, creator, chairman, and executive producer of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards, in a press release.