In New York City this week, hip hop luminaries celebrated 50 years since the Bronx-born music genre hit the scene and changed music forever. 

In New York City this week, hip hop luminaries celebrated 50 years since the Bronx-born music genre hit the scene and changed music forever.&nbsp;

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New York City Celebrates 50 Years of Hip Hop

All right. Well, guess what? Last night, I was lucky enough to take part in celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip hop and I got to kick it with music royalty. Take a look. I'm here on the red carpet in New York City for the 50 th anniversary of hip hop and stars showed up to celebrate reminisce and drop some beats. I'm not internationally known, but I'm known to rock the microphone. Ok. So tell me what's one word you would use to describe hip hop? Like all your albums, especially tonight out here celebrating 50 years when no one thought it would last past five. What do you prefer more hip hop then? Or now? I like it all. You know, we had good hip hop back then. We had hip hop that suck back then. We got good hip hop. Now we got hip hop. That sucks. Now, how many diamonds is this? What are we dealing with here? But three of 434, you know, 1000 from day to night, the red carpet may be over but the party isn't because we'll be celebrating 50 years in hip hop all year long from New York City, I'm Shannon Lanier.