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Hip-Hop History Month Celebration

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November 8, 2025
November 8, 2025

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10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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From the boom-bap of basement tapes to breakbeats that shook global stages, Hip-Hop continues to transcend cultural barriers and inspire musical genres around the globe. This November, MOPOP invites you to a day-long celebration honoring Washington State’s Hip-Hop History Month and the debut of a special edition of MOPOP’s Guest Curator Program, Beats + Rhymes: A Collective Narrative of Hip-Hop. Explore the five pillars of Hip-Hop—MCing, DJing, Graffiti, Knowledge of Self, and Breakdancing— through costumes, ephemera, photos, and more, curated by this year’s Youth Advisory Board and Guest Curators Syreeta Gates and Abstract Kouadio.

Hip-Hop History Month Daytime Demos:  

  • Beats + Rhymes Exhibition Opening featuring artifacts from MOPOP's permanent collection  ‍
  • Selections from the 2025 Seattle Hip Hop Film Festival in Sound + Vision Theater (11:00 AM and 3:00 PM)‍
  • Guest Curator Talk with Abstract Kouadio, Syreeta Gates, and Youth Advisory Board members, moderated by Associate Curator Adeerya Johnson (2:00 PM)‍
  • DJ Demonstrations with DJ Wffls (11:00 AM and 1:00 PM)‍
  • Panel with 206 Zulu (12:30 PM)
  • ‍Hip-Hop Album Listening Sessions in The Lounge ‍
  • Pop-In, Drop-In Family Program activation

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HotDawg Man

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