M Pire Magazine November 2013 Issue | Page 31

Check out our exclusive interview below with the founder of the Brooklyn Bodega, Wes Jackson Brooklyn Bodega’s Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival Established in 2005, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is New York City’s largest HipHop cultural event that showcases the positive aspects of Hip-Hop culture by highlighting Hip-Hop’s legacy as an agent of artistic progression, community building and social change. In addition to musical performances, the Festival offers a number of activities for its audience, including: panel discussions, exhibitions, parties, an award show and a family-friendly block party. The Festival is more than a concert or outdoor fair. It is a family reunion for lovers of this great culture. In the last nine years, the Festival has achieved a number of memorable milestones with an impressive roster of Hip-Hop acts that include Grammy winner (Lupe Fiasco), the front man of Jimmy Fallon’s late night band (Black Thought of The Roots) and VH1 Hip-Hop Honoree (Big Daddy Kane). (Cont’d) 31