Rock the Bells adds second NYC date

May 1, 2007 at 10:10:00 AM Additional show will feature Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Erykah Badu, Rakim, and many more.
Hip-hop fans who missed out on the New York City edition of the biggest rap show of 2007 have another chance. The July 29 lineup will largely mirror that of the July 28 show, with headliners , , and Cypress Hill topping the bill along with special guests Public Enemy.

The Roots and EPMD will not stay for the extra day, however, with Erykah Badu, Rakim, MF Doom, and Talib Kweli all added to the second date. Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Immortal Technique, Sage Francisco, Jedi Mind Tricks, Brother Ali, Cage, and many more are slated to play both shows. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.

m. via Ticketmaster. The four-stop Rock the Bells tour hits the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, on August 10 and the McCovey Cove Parking Lot in San Francisco on August 18.

Rage Against the Machine earned acclaim from disenfranchised fans (and not insignificant derision from critics) for their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash. Rage formed in Los..

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Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, NY-based Wu-Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s -- and only partially because of their music.

Turning the standard concept of a hip-hop crew inside out, the Wu-Tang Clan were assembled as a loose congregation of nine...

Public Enemy rewrote the rules of hip-hop, becoming the most influential and controversial rap group of the late '80s and, for many, the definitive rap group of all time. Building from Run-D.M.

C.'s street-oriented beats and Boogie Down Productions' proto-gangsta rhyming, Public Enemy pioneered a variation of hardcore rap that was musically and..

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Cypress Hill were notable for being the first Latino hip-hop superstars, but they became notorious for their endorsement of marijuana, which actually isn't a trivial thing. Not only did the group campaign for its legalization, but their slow, rolling bass-and-drum loops pioneered a new, stoned funk that became extraordinary influential in '90s.

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She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm.

The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R B, but Badu's langurous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from...

They never had a mainstream hit of their own, but during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop. Not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art in their respective skills.

Eric B. was..

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Starting with their 1986 debut, Paid in Full, Eric B. and Rakim earned raves for Eric B.

's often flawless, judicious productions and Rakim's serious yet relentlessly rhythmic rhyming style. This 1992 album finds the duo picking up from where they left off of 1990's Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em. "What's on Your Mind" has Rakim with intents to woo under.

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