Chuck D named music ambassador for Hip Hop 50
As the milestone anniversary of Hip Hop is well known this week, MLB groups with music legend Chuck D for particular content material and programming to have fun the connection and impression of music, tradition and baseball.
During Friday’s extremely anticipated Hip Hop 50 Live at Yankee Stadium live performance, the co-founder of pioneering musical group Public Enemy, will function MLB’s particular correspondent, capturing the electrical ambiance in unique content material for MLB’s platforms, together with @MLB, @MLBLife social handles, MLB.com, MLB.TV and MLB Network.
Additionally, the acclaimed lyricist, producer and writer will collaborate with MLB on content material, music and tales all through the fiftieth anniversary yr. Programming contains MLB’s social, MLB Network and in-stadium movies centered on the connection between baseball and Hip Hop tradition, and the way its developed by the years.
“As a longtime baseball fanatic, I am beyond honored to be the first Hip Hop artist to work with Major League Baseball in this exciting new way – connecting sound and culture to the stories of the game,” mentioned Chuck D. “Thank you to MLB for including me to the lineup…and the pitch is on the way in which.”
MLB launches its yearlong partnership with Mass Appeal’s Hip Hop 50 this Friday, with Hip Hop 50 Live at Yankee Stadium. The star-studded occasion is the opening activation to commemorate Hip Hop’s 50th birthday the place all of it started, the Bronx. As a part of the continued partnership, MLB and its Clubs will create content material, merchandise and giveaways to amplify promotions that connect with Hip Hop below this impactful banner by the 2024 season.
In 2013, Public Enemy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2020, Public Enemy obtained a Lifetime Achievement Award on the GRAMMYs. In April 2023, Chuck D launched his ode to the good American pastime with “We Wreck Stadiums,” a group of songs that pays homage and salute to some baseball’s greats and the plain impression they’ve had on the sport and the world. Most lately, he’s developer and govt producer of “Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World,” Chuck D curated a strong assortment of voices on the evolution of the musical style and its historic significance. The four-episode sequence premiered within the US on PBS in 2023.
