“The Box That Rocks: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture"

Video Music Box founder-host Ralph McDaniels talks with several of the artists—including Malik Y. Cumbo, Delphine Fawundu, Tahir Hemphill and Ali Santana—who crafted works commemorating his show’s widespread influence. Visitors will also see clips from old VMB episodes featuring New York rappers like Big Daddy Kane and a young Jay-Z, who would drop by McDaniels’s studio with his Roc-A-Fella Records partner Damon Dash to deliver new independently produced music videos.