​Warner Music commemorates 50 years of hip hop with year-long celebrations

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Warner Music has announced its year-long celebration of hip hop to commemorate 50 years since the genre’s origins.

Hip-Hop Fifty pledges to bring together art, fashion, sports, and importantly music, to celebrate half a century of hip hop and its surrounding culture.

The campaign traces back to the very origins of the genre with pioneering artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash in the early ‘70s, charting its rise through the decades with the emergence of gangsta…