Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Kicks Off

By Ross Green

| Monday, Jul 11, 2011 | Updated 3:00 PM EDT

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The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival gets underway Monday at the Brooklyn Bowl with the Show & Prove Super Bowl.

Three winners of preliminary Show & Prove contests — Detroit rap group Clear Soul Forces and New York emcees Chris Faustus (formerly Print) and L.A. — will compete for an opening spot at Saturday’s Q-Tip and Friends showcase, the festival’s main event.

Bronx duo Camp Lo, Philadelphia-via-New York rapper/producer J-Live and Newark graffiti enthusiasts the Artifacts headline Monday’s show.

Brooklyn Bodega will host a wide-ranging set of events all week long as part of the festival, now in its seventh year.

And after a bizarre Twitter snafu last week, it appears Q-Tip is indeed the scheduled headliner. The festival also features Tip’s A Tribe Called Quest colleague Ali Shaheed Muhammad and recent XXL Freshman Kendrick Lamar. You can check out the full schedule of events over at Brooklyn Bodega’s festival calendar.

Related Topics Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Q-Tip, Clear Soul Forces, Chris Faustus

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