The Bronx — the legendary birthplace of hip-hop — is getting a museum dedicated to the music and culture.
Scheduled to open in 2024, the two-floor Universal Hip-Hop Museum will be located on East 150th Street, attached to the Bronx Point development, in the borough that's legendary as the birthplace of hip-hop. The focus of the museum is to highlight the five pillars of hip-hop: DJing, emceeing, break dancing, graffiti, and knowledge.
But it almost didn't happen. Twelve years ago, the Universal Hip-Hop Museum was just a dream — an"audacious dream," Bucano said. At the time, he worked as executive director of a nonprofit organization for a youth basketball team, the New York Gauchos, which was looking for ways to expand and turn the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a sports and entertainment complex. Although the plans fell through, it opened the door for another idea for the community: a hip-hop museum.
WORD UP! Magazine Issue #1, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1987, one of the prominent hip-hop magazines expected to be displayed in the brick-and-mortar Universal Hip-Hop Museum."Everybody was like, 'I get it now, I see it.' You know they say that seeing is believing, and even though the dream was just on paper, people started to see that, OK, we got a game plan now, we got an architect, we have a vision," said Bucano.
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