Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture and was so excited to talk about the museum’s new kick-starter campaign. A campaign to produce the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap to educate people more on this. “I really felt that it was so important […]

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), has turned to crowdsourcing for its next ambitious project – a nine-disc chronological compendium of over 120 songs from hip-hop and rap. The “Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap” will contain tracks painstakingly selected by a panel of artists, […]