Upstate Beat: Hip-hop lives — an Albany exhibit looks back

"Although the event was heady with nostalgia for songs and music from decades prior — especially hip-hop’s “Golden Age” of the 1980s and ‘90s — there was also a forward-looking aspect to the night. Hip-hop lives and evolves."

" 'Hip-hop is everywhere,' said Cooper. 'It’s always shifting and reinventing itself and coming back to a foundation, which is why it’s lasted so long. Fifty years from now, it will still be around.' "

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