Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2009

June 25th, 2009 | By

If you missed the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival over the past weekend (June 20th), you missed a good time filled with various performances from many top artists. Besides the hip hop entertainment, there was lots of family fun. People of all ages showed up for the event even though their were off-and-on rain showers throughout the day. Starting off the show was Smif-N-Wessun with hit songs, like “Sound Bwoy Bureill”, “I Love You (Remix)” and “Bucktown”. Also performing were Buckshot, singing “How Many MCs”, followed by Brand Nubian with “Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down”, “Slow Down” and “All for One”; then J. Period even got on stage with the group to perform “Brooklyn Dodgers 2″.

Showing up as a surprise guest, Black Thought performed his own rendition of “Brooklyn Go Hard”. DJing the event, DJ Premiere, spun off popular hits like “Dwyck” and “Nas is Like”. Even Styles P and Sheek Louch (from the Lox) showed up, rapping hot verses from “Locked Up”, “We Gone Make It” and Sheek’s “Mighty D Block”. No, the whole event wasn’t based on old hip hop songs because Dead Prez came out with some tracks from their new CD, “Pulse of the People” — including “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop”, which wrapped up the show. Their album was released on June 23rd. Closing the night of hip hop festivities was Pharoahe Monch with “Oh No” and “Simon Says”.

Overall, the event was great for couples, families and children that hold a special place in their heart and ears for hip hop.