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! True School Hip Hop Artist gets honoured by the king of sweden !
Grandmaster Flash receives the Polar Music Prize 2019 (Nobel Prize for Music) by his Majesty the King of Sweden Carl XVI. Gustaf .....Citation Carl XVI. Gustaf: ".... in honor of every DJ, every rapper, every graffiti artist, and every break-dancer", source Forbes, June 11, 2019, 04:10 pm.
!!! HHMS CONGRATULATES GRANDMASTER FLASH !!!
TRUE (old)SCHOOL History:
Flyin' Cut Sleeves, gangs in the Bronx around 1970, produced by Henry Chalfant and Rita Fecher, 1993, >recommended by HHMS.
other HIP HOP MUSEUM LINKS:
Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx (THHM, New York, USA)
Hip Hop Museum D.C. Washington (USA)
> Honoured Charlie Stettler (CH) !
> Check out Stettler on HHMS ?
The Urban Art Museum Paris (F)
Museum of Graffiti (online, USA)
Museum of Graffiti (real in Wynwood/Miami, USA)
Collection Gallizia (Paris), (F)
MAgazines:
14k Magazine (CH)
REviews of HHMS:
Luana (HHMS Artist- CH- History Basel): Tobias Ehrenbold, Silas Gusset, Anina Zahn, Stadt. Geschichte.Basel. Auf dem Weg ins Jetzt. Seit 1960, hrsg. Prof. Dr. Martin Lengwiler [Band 8/9], Christoph Merian: Basel, march 1st 2025, p. 269 (pic.116).
Kid Terrific (HHMS Artist): Breakdance soon to be olympic ("Breakdance bald olympisch", Swiss national television, SRF, in: Sportpanorama, 23.10.2023) > Intro with Kid terrific (see US- History at the HHMS).
HHMS by Maximilian Jablonowski, "Züri breakt! Wie der Hip-Hop nach Zürich kam" in: Die 80er. Sie sind wieder da [Magazin zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung vom 17.Juni 2023- 25. Februar 2024], Eigenverlag: Schloss Karlsruhe, 2023, S.102-103. > (en) HHMS: "Zurich breaks! How Hip-Hop came to Zurich" from Maximilian Jablonowski, in: The 80ies are back [magazin of the exhibition with the same name, June 17th 2023 until February 25th 2024], self- published: Castle of Karlsruhe, 2023, p. 102-103.)) > Among others with the old school rap artist Torch (Heidelberg) who performed regularly at the legendary hip hop parties at the Coupole in Biel/Bienne (coll. CAP) in the early 90ies.
DOCUMENTARies:
"The Coupole in Biel/Bienne – mythic places of hip- hop in the French part of Switzerland. 40 years of rap." "La Coupole - Bienne - Les lieux mythiques du hip-hop suisse romande. 40 ans de rap", by Couleur3 (RTS). 08.10.2019, > recommended by HHMS
SWATCH BRANDING & HIP HOP in1984 @The Roxy in NYC (posted on LinkedIN September 20, 2024, recommended by Jazzy)
History:
1st magazine- article of the Hip Hop issue by the "east village eye" in January 1982, archived article, see gallery98 (east village, NYC).
MUSEOLOGY:
Hip Hop Corner at the Neues Museum Biel/Nouveau Musée Bienne (NMB), permanent show since February 2023: "Biel und der Röstigraben"/"Bienne et la barrière de rösti"= Bienna and the rösti-barrier (the rösti-barrier = french/german cultural barrier in Switzerland). > recommended by HHMS
5 mio. U$ of support by the US-federal to build the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, february 2023 on CBS New York > recommended by HHMS
The Hip Hop Museum (THHM) opens at Bronx Point in fall 2026: this is not the Universal Hip Hop Museum!
> recommended by HHMS
COMING up SOON Exhibitions & News:
Pioneer- Graffiti sale- Exhibition in Paris, "Les pionniers du Graffiti et leurs amis", january 15- 18, 2026, Salle Rossini, 7 rue Rossini, 75009 Paris. > recommended by King Bobo (Universlam) & Banga (Street Dream Gallery), Paris.
> a. o. with "Darco", KR16- Artist > see article: Caroline Montandon, „Kunst und Freiheit entgegen kollektiver Gleichschaltung. Ein off museum in der Industriebrache in Attisholz bei Solothurn. Beobachtungen zur musealen Entwicklung des 21. Jahrhunderts in der Schweiz“, in: KR16.recording 1.0, Surface: Frankfurt, 2017, S. 71, or at the Swiss Federal National Library.
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Old school B-Boy from Switzerland (Juicy Crew/Battle Rockerz (ZH)) and magician Marco Tempest goes NASA, on: SF (Swiss television) "Kulturplatz: Marco Tempest. Von Zürich zur NASA. Der Zürcher Drohnenkünstler in der Tech- Elite (Folge 1)" by Alexis Amitirigala, novembre 12th 2025. > check 23'37''
> Guy Landolt member of the BattleRockerz won the Breakdance Competition in Switzerland in 1984 (SF, Karussell, Aeschbacher, march 30th 1984).
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HIP HOP ARTIST DR. QUEEN LATIFAH:
Queen Latifah got honoured at the 46th Kennedy Center Honors Red Carpet (2023) with the title of "doctor in honoris causae of fine arts" by the US- president Joe Biden. > Dr. Queen Latifah
....the 46th Kennedy Center Honors at the White House Reception Queen Latifah (2023) > check out @minute 9 and 43 sec. honouring Queen Latifah with an ensuing citation Biden: "....in the last 50 years hip hop has become a unstoppable force in America ...and around the world ...".
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LL Cool J becomes the first hip hop honouree at the Kennedy Center in 2017......finally !
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>all recommended by HHMS