Local hip-hop emcees and creatives are ready to put Schenectady on the map | The Daily Gazette
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March 10, 2021
Local hip-hop artists Touchmoney Cease, right, Super Starr Gutta, bottom left, and filmographer Breaz, top left. (Stan Hudy/The Daily Gazette and provided photos)
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Hip-hop and New York are synonymous with each other.
The genre was born in a Bronx apartment building in the early ‘70s, carried for years by New York greats in Nas, Jay-Z and the Notorious B.I.G. and found a fresh edge in newcomers like Fivio Foreign and the late Pop Smoke.
But recently, it isn’t just the city that never sleeps that’s bringing New York attention from hip-hop heads.