The 2023 BET Hip-Hop Awards will be held on Tuesday, October 3rd, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The show will then air on the BET Network the following week, on October 10th, at 9pm ET.

Grammy Award-nominated recording artist, actor, author, entrepreneur, and media personality Fat Joe, who is also the co-executive producer, will once again host this year’s staging. The 2023 nominations, which were selected by some esteemed music industry insiders, performers, and presenters, were announced last week. To see the complete list of nominees, visit bet-dot-com.

The Legendary Roots Crew will be doing a handful of shows this month. They’ll be playing at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina on the weekend – Saturday, September 9th – and at the PNC Arena in Raleigh the following day. They’re also booked for the Telluride Jazz Festival in Telluride, Colorado on September 16th.

The Roots is considered one of the greatest hip-hop ensemble in the history of the genre. The band was formed in 1987 by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Visit their official website – theroots-dot-com – for additional information about the group, as well as other confirmed concert dates on their schedule.

Five-time Grammy-winning pianist, composer, producer, and founding member of the Kennedy Center’s Hip-Hop Culture Council, Robert Glasper, will be celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center – 1551 Trap Road – in Vienna, Virginia, on Saturday, September 9th.

This one night only concert will feature a host of special guests, namely: Cordae, Common, Lupe Fiasco, T3 (of Slum Village), and Rapsody. Click here for tickets.

In 1993, the legendary Grammy Award winning band Arrested Development released their classic single People Everyday, and it immediately catapulted their careers to a whole new level. To that end, they have been doing a series of shows in honor of its 30th anniversary.

One of the events that’s on their itinerary is Music at the Intersection, happening on September 9th and 10th at the Grand Center Arts District in St. Louis. Following that, on September 16th, they will be at the Roaring Riot Kickoff Jam at the NoDa Brewing Company (North End Taproom) in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The other two dates in September are on the 23rd – at the Delicious Music Festival in Johannesburg – and at the end of the month, September 29th through October 1st, at the Caloundra Music Festival in Queensland, Australia.

If you missed the Fight The Power: How Hip-Hop Changed The World talk at Canadian Music Week (CMW), you are in luck, because on Tuesday, August 22nd they will have an encore presentation.

You can join the in-depth conversation with Chuck D, B-Real and Lorrie Boula; moderator Maestro Fresh Wes and host Rudy Blair, as they discuss the importance of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and how it has shaped the minds of generations. Click here to register for free.

Motion is track number 5 on Nas‘ latest album, Magic 2, released on July 21st via his Mass Appeal imprint. Its official video, which was directed by one of the top directors in the music industry today, Kid Art, was just uploaded to YouTube.

If you have not yet seen it, click here or on the image above to check it out, and remember to like, comment and share.