Chuck Creekmur talks with the icon and finds out the technique that went into creating the hit vacation music.
Hip-Hop pioneer Kurtis Blow will probably be headlining an upcoming vacation remix of a basic opera. The legend will star within the 2021 model of The Hip Hop Nutcracker, a touring tour that may produce nearly 40 exhibits between now and the primary week in January.
The Hip Hop Nutcracker, directed and choreographed by Jennifer Weber, is a up to date spin on the unique Tchaikovsky piece, a two-act ballet, created over 125 years in the past.
Blow sits down with AllHipHop.com’s CEO Chuck Creekmur to speak about his position within the manufacturing and his historic connection to the Yuletide vacation.
In his interview, Blow shares that his pleasure going out on stage night time after night time with the younger break dancers, musicians, and DJ on the tour. One of many musicians that he plugged in is a violinist, Jarvis L. Benson who began with the tour when it opened in November.
“We’ve a DJ chopping up beats all night time lengthy. We’ve our personal Hip-Hop musician, he’s a violinist popping out and collab-ing with the DJ,” he beamed. “And to see and listen to that’s unimaginable. That fusion of classical music and Hip-Hop is unimaginable.”
“And I’m the emcee and host of the present,” he proudly proclaims.
The 62-year-old has different accolades he will be pleased with. In 1979, on the age of 20, he was the primary rapper to be signed by a serious label. His music, “The Breaks” went gold within the Nineteen Eighties and is without doubt one of the greatest hits of its time and joints like “AJ” and “Basketball” are classics to any Hip-Hop fanatic value their grain in salt.
In 1997, when Nas lined his music “If I Dominated the World” and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts an entire new era of music lovers acquired to know the influence of the person, who can be one of many founders of the Common Hip Hop Museum, in a model new approach.
However it’s his music, “Christmas Rappin” that’s in all probability probably the most recognizable and appreciated in the course of the holidays.
Creekmur requested the visionary emcee, “What made you do this music at the moment? Hip-Hop was so younger.”
He replied, “The Christmas rap music was an concept from my producer. His identify was Robert Ford, Jr. Relaxation in Peace.”
“He got here to me in our first assembly and stated, it could be a terrific concept if we did a music that might plan yearly, yearly in the course of the Christmas Vacation. Why not do a Christmas rap,” Kurtis Blow shared.
Kurtis stated that he instantly thought it was a terrific concept and the remainder is historical past.
Take a look at the video for extra from the interview.
The web site shares that “Similar to the unique, in The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Maria-Clara and the Nutcracker prince go on a dream journey battling a gang of mice, visiting the land of sweets and studying the teachings of the vacation season. Modern digital graffiti and visuals remodel the panorama of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s beloved story from conventional nineteenth Century Germany to the colourful, numerous sights and sounds of latest New York Metropolis.”
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