EXCLUSIVE: Def Jam Recordings’ first president, Invoice Stephney, EPMD’s Parish Smith and The Bomb Squad’s Keith Shocklee have been among the many many attendees.
Hip-Hop tradition was alive and properly in New York Metropolis final week. LL COOL J moved like a stealth bomber, popping up throughout the 2025 Songwriters Corridor of Fame on Thursday (June 12) on the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan, the place he posed for a handful of images and rapidly disappeared.
He was additionally technically on the Tribeca Competition premiere of The Sixth Borough, a movie highlighting Lengthy Island Hip-Hop artists like Rakim, Public Enemy, EPMD, MF DOOM and De La Soul. Forward of the screening, the viewers was handled to the music video for LL COOL J’s “Rock The Bells,” which not too long ago received the visible remedy 40 years after its preliminary launch.
On the crimson carpet, the night morphed right into a bonafide Hip-Hop household reunion, with De La Soul’s Posdnuos and Maseo linking up with longtime producer/collaborator Prince Paul and famed Hip-Hop photographer Ernie Paniccioli, who appeared in De La’s video for the 2000 single “All Good,” embracing all of them.
Def Jam Recordings’ first president, Invoice Stephney, EPMD’s Parish Smith, The Bomb Squad’s Keith Shocklee, former Tommy Boy Information’ A&R Dante Ross, Bone Thugs-n-Concord’s ex-manager/document exec Steve Lobel, Biz Markie’s widow, Tara Corridor, The Sixth Borough producer and Warner Music Group’s EVP/Head of Enterprise Affairs & Authorized Julian Petty and the movie’s director, Jason Pollard, have been among the many many others in attendance.
As for the movie itself, at simply over 70 minutes lengthy, it was the proper period of time to encapsulate the immense impression Lengthy Island Hip-Hop artists have had on the tradition and the way Lengthy Island, in flip, knowledgeable their kinds.
Artists interviewed for the movie included Chuck D, Methodology Man, Rakim, De La Soul, Parish Smith and Erick Sermon. Mixed with wealthy archival footage, it tells a complete story of Lengthy Island’s historical past and “the sixth borough’s” many well-known Hip-Hop innovators.
The Sixth Borough will present on the Black Star Movie Competition in Philadelphia happening July 31-August 3.
Featured picture: Posdnuos, Prince Paul, Maseo and Ernie Paniccioli (Picture: Kyle Eustice)
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