PUBLISHED BY MADELEINE BYRNE | OCTOBER 17, 2017

“#Make Hip-Hop History” is the slogan for the campaign launched today by The Smithsonian Museum, with the help of Chuck D and MC Lyte, to fund a nine-CD, 300-page anthology devoted to exploring the history of Hip-Hop and Rap music.

This would be the third such Smithsonian Folkways anthology focused on an American musical genre, following The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) and Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011).

The anthology will be made up of 120-plus tracks, 10 essays and photographs never-before seen from the Museum collection. Creating something like this “takes a lot of debates, yelling, throwing chairs, stuff like that,” Chuck D joked in the accompanying video for the campaign that aims to raise $250,000 by November 16.

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