Beats and rhymes brought thousands of Bay Area residents and visitors to Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza on Labor Day to enjoy the 11th version of Hiero Day, a music block party thrown by the Hieroglyphics Crew.
But a love of community and valuing of its keepers were what kept crowds happily greeting one another, complimenting outfits, sampling snacks from food trucks, dancing to familiar fast favorites or swaying and snapping selfies before slower classics.
Monday’s event honored not only last month’s 50th anniversary of the hip-hop music genre but also the 30th anniversary of 93 ’til Infinity, the debut studio album by Souls of Mischief, part of the…
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