Long-running, interactive hip-hop performance series Freestyle Mondays celebrates 15 year history with improv rap/live band, gameshow battle

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Birthplace Magazine founder and editor-in-chief Manny Faces will be among those honored during Soul Inscribed's show at the 2015 Blue Note Jazz Festival.

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Freestyle Mondays to celebrate 13 years of live band-infused battles and open mics dedicated to impromptu displays of lyrical prowess

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An epic coming-together event featuring several major organizations that have collectively served as the backbone of New York City's independent hip hop scene for years.

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Freestyle Mondays, the city's most emphatic exhibition of spontaneous rap excellence, has announced a monthly residency at Brooklyn's Spike Hill, beginning January 6, 2014.

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Rabbi Darkside will host an entertainment-packed album release event to celebrate the successful completion of a $10,000 Kickstarter.com campaign to fund Prospect Avenue, the new solo album from the Brooklyn-based hip hop artist and educator.

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Props To Hip Hop, an exciting, live band-backed, rap cover concert series continues with 'Battle of the Boroughs,' a tribute to the history of The Big Apple's contributions to hip hop history. Borough pride will be strong, as some of NYC's best and brightest underground MCs will be judged by a panel which includes the great Jean Grae, The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac, the folks from RapGenius.com and Birthplace Magazine founder Manny Faces.

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For one night, 1987 hip hop was back in NYC, as more than 25 rappers and musicians gave 'Props To Hip Hop,' performing the latest in a series of live band tributes to hip hop icons. This one, a March 24, 2012 recreation of the groundbreaking 'Together Forever' tour, featured MCs performing as Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, to the delight of hundreds of hip hop heads who packed Hiro Ballroom.

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Props To Hip Hop, the incredibly entertaining live band hip hop tribute concert series, returns March 24, 2012, this time taking it to Hiro Ballroom with a lineup reproducing 1987's famed "Together Forever" tour, featuring Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy. If you haven't caught one of these yet, you will not be disappointed.

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