{"id":61746,"date":"2023-02-06T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/hip-hop-50-tribute-performance-featured-ll-cool-j-method-man-lil-baby-more\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:19:07","slug":"hip-hop-50-tribute-performance-featured-ll-cool-j-method-man-lil-baby-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/hip-hop-50-tribute-performance-featured-ll-cool-j-method-man-lil-baby-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop 50 Tribute Performance Featured LL Cool J, Method Man, Lil Baby &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1078771\/2023-grammys-performers-how-to-watch-host-presenters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Grammy Awards<\/a> honor the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop this 12 months with a tribute efficiency co-curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ahmir-questlove-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questlove<\/a> and label Mass Appeal. Before the occasion, Questlove teased audiences would see \u201csome of the biggest names from the genre coming together to celebrate hip-hop history \u2014 its past, its present, its future,\u201d and the efficiency certainly didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Following the introduction of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/dr-dre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Dr. Dre<\/a> Impact Award, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ll-cool-j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LL Cool J<\/a> launched the tribute efficiency, which started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/tariq-black-thought-trotter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Thought<\/a> taking the stage. Soon after got here Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, then Run DMC and LL Cool J himself (with a fast wardrobe change).<\/p>\n<p>The efficiency transitioned with some DJ scratches from Jazzy Jeff earlier than Salt N Pepa took the stage. Rakim spat a number of bars; then Public Enemy took the stage earlier than passing it off to LL and Thought as soon as once more. The Ghetto Boyz\u2019s \u201cStraight from da Ghetto\u201d started to play as we transitioned into the \u201990s, the place acts like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ice-t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ice T<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/queen-latifah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Queen Latifah<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/method-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Method Man<\/a> carried out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/busta-rhymes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Busta Rhymes<\/a> then carried out \u201cPut Ya Hands Where My Eyes Can See\u201d earlier than Busta did some traces from his featured monitor \u201cLook At Me Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we entered the 2000s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/nelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelly<\/a> appropriately took the stage, adopted by The LOX waving a Ruff Ryders flag. Finally, the act entered the trendy period, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/lil-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lil Baby<\/a> representing first, adopted by GloRilla and Lil Uzi Vert, full with spikey hair.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/questlove\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questlove<\/a>, who spoke to <em>Variety<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1080300\/grammys-2023-will-smith-hip-hop-tribute-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Smith was meant to take part within the tribute<\/a> however needed to again out as a consequence of scheduling conflicts. The occasion supposedly coincided with manufacturing for <em>Bad Boys 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The 2023 Grammy Awards honor the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop this 12 months with a tribute efficiency co-curated by Questlove and label Mass Appeal. Before the occasion, Questlove teased audiences would see \u201csome of the biggest names from the genre coming together to celebrate hip-hop history \u2014 its past, its present, its future,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}