

Cole, and North Carolina hip-hop, Amazon Music is hosting a very special 50 & Forever exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh on Friday, March 31. To celebrate the storied legacy of Dreamville, J. Cole will once again host Dreamville Festival in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. This weekend, Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum hip-hop artist J. Watch the short film here.ĭreamville x 50 & Forever - Through The Years Exhibit Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, 3/31 The film captures the journey of music discovery and shows that when hip-hop fandom starts at home, it carries on for generations.

Directed by Fenn O’Meally and featuring a Black, all-female cast, the film is centered around the first lady of hip-hop, Queen Latifah, and her groundbreaking, respect-demanding feminist anthem ‘U.N.I.T.Y.’-which turns 30 this year. To kick off 50 & Forever, Amazon Music today released Generational Queens, the first in an ongoing series of short films that will be released throughout the year from Amazon Music. Created by Rotation-the hip-hop and R&B brand from Amazon Music-50 & Forever will give hip-hop its well-deserved flowers, with curated events, livestreams, playlists, original content, and new music-spanning Amazon Music, Twitch, Audible, Prime Video, and Amp.

NEW YORK, March 30, 2023-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Amazon Music is paying tribute to hip-hop’s monumental influence on music, culture, and society with 50 & Forever, a program in celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, which will bring fans together to honor hip-hop’s undeniable legacy and champion the artists writing the next 50 years of hip-hop’s history. Watch Generational Queens, 50 & Forever’s tribute to Queen Latifah’s feminist anthem ‘U.N.I.T.Y.’ here Blige’s Strength of a Woman Festival & Summit Kicking off today, 50 & Forever reveals its first series of events at J. 50 & Forever by Rotation will immerse fans in hip-hop’s indelible history, celebrating both the trailblazers who made hip-hop an inescapable cultural force and the rising stars who are redefining the genre for a new generation
