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Mayor Adams hosts hip hop’s greatest names at City Hall on eve of rap’s 50th | New York Post

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Mayor Eric Adams kept it trill Monday, inviting some of the biggest names in hip hop to City Hall to mark the genre’s upcoming 50th anniversary next year.

Hizzoner, donning a Run-DMC-style tracksuit, stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Grandmaster Flash, Slick Rick, the Sugarhill Gang’s Master Gee, Run-DMC founding member Darryl McDaniels and others, part of a fundraising effort in partnership with the Universal Hip Hop Museum.

“When I was in the studio cutting ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ there was no way on the planet Earth that I thought that I’d be sitting here in City Hall with the mayor and all of this,” Master Gee told the audience.

“And so the fact that we are 50 years, the fact that we’re going to do this celebration, the fact that we are here with so many incredible individuals — this is just so profoundly, phenomenally wonderful,” he said.

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