#Uncle Ralph McDaniels

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Live Concert Photography: Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park 7/21/24: DMC and Friends with Jadakiss, The Hoodies and Statik Selektah

SummerStage at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park 7/21/24: DMC and Friends with Jadakiss, The Hoodies and Statik Selektah @thekingdmc @OfficialRunDMC @Therealkiss @StatikSelekt @thehoodies_ @YoungPoppa_845 @capitalone @CPFNYC @dkcnews @AllianceForFMCP

Live Concert Photography: Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park 7/21/24: DMC and Friends with Jadakiss, The Hoodies and Statik Selektah Last month, Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage hosted a nostalgia-inducing showcase at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that featured Run DMC‘s DMC and a collection of friends and associates, Jadakiss, The Hoodies…

[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Ralph McDaniels ‘Uncle Ralph,’ VJ Ralph McDaniels and Video Music Box @videomusicbox brought the music and culture of hip-hop to our floor model 25inch television from Monday to Friday on channel 31 in NYC. Friday Night Videos on NBC and MTV were not showing hip-hop videos in the early 80s, it was Uncle Ralph and Lionel C. Martin and Video Music Box showcasing Curtis Blow, Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, Whodini, The Fat Boys, and Roxanne Shanté videos… Video Music Box open doors for more hip-hop artist like Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, MC Shan, Boogie Down Productions, The Get Fresh Crew, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. & Rakim, Heavy D. & The Boyz, and Kool G. Rap & Polo to name a few. Uncle Ralph inspired millions of African and Latino Americans with showcasing a reflection of themselves on television when networks like CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, (Channel 9, Channel 11, and Channel 13 for you New York heads) refuse to. He inspired a young Brooklyn kid like myself to follow a career in film and media and continue his legacy of introducing culture to the people. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #ralphmcdaniels #uncleralph #videomusicbox #vjralphmcdaniels #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke #blacktwitter https://www.instagram.com/p/CmwEiMZub7x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thehiphopunderground]

Homage Awards Gala Celebrates 40+ Years Of Hip Hop Honoring “Uncle Ralph” McDaniels

Homage Awards Gala Celebrates 40+ Years Of Hip Hop Honoring “Uncle Ralph” McDaniels

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Homage Awards Gala Celebrates 40+ Years Of Hip Hop Honoring “Uncle Ralph” McDaniels

Homage Awards Gala Celebrates 40+ Years Of Hip Hop Honoring “Uncle Ralph” McDaniels

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The Week Ahead 2/5-2/11

New York City - there’s no place quite like it. Whether you fell in love with it in the movies or you were born in raised, you know all about the magic. At pulsd, our bread & butter is making sure you experience all of it...

$29 VIP Ticket To A 2 Hour Open Bar Fashion Show Soirée 

Don your most head-turning threads, snap selfies with fellow fashionistas, and swig unlimited drinks at The Femme Fatale Haute Couture Fashion Show, held at one of the city's most legendary hotspots - the Copacabana! Once a haven for disco icons is now a locale for in-the-know denizens. Dressed to impress, you'll enter with your equally fashion-obsessed squad. Take advantage of the 2 Hour Open Bar that will be serving up whatever tipples fit your fancy. While you sip, peruse the scene and discover why Time Out considers the Copa "top of mind as your go-to destination." The show will start, and you'll be perfectly perched, ready to whip out your camera to snap pics of the latest trends by New York-based designers. Clink Champagne, and revel at the afterparty thanks to this unique experience...

A Book Talk and Cardio Class

This isn't your typical workout class! Join debut author Alisha Fernandez Miranda to celebrate the release of her memoir My What If Year. Alisha will talk about her new book and experience in the wellness industry, followed by a Q&A and book signing. After the author talk, get ready to break a sweat! A DanceBody instructor will lead a 45-minute cardio class. Post-workout juices and treats will be provided too!

30% Off: 3 Course Valentine's Day Dinner For 2 With Cocktails & A Bottle Of Moet

Love is the name of the game at Highkey Rainforest Rooftop, and their Valentine's Day dinner will showcase indulgence with a heavy dose of romance and lavish love, complete with spectacular eats, succulent sips, and views aplenty, all while staying warm, as the space is heated. Luxury, flirtation, and delectable delights await, kicked off by either cocktails like the Love & Passion (patron, guava, Chambord, maraschino, passion fruit foam), or both cocktails and a bottle of coveted Moet Champagne. The bubblier, the better! Follow that with a showcase of culinary treats like Beef Sliders with Caramelized Onions, Lobster Tails, Chicken Satay, Chocolate Covered Strawberries and the like. If the way to the heart is through the stomach, dig in!

Video Music Box Night

Since 1983, Brooklyn native Ralph McDaniels, founder and curator of the Video Music Box has been instrumental in documenting the evolution of Hip-Hop culture. McDaniels, affectionately known as “Uncle Ralph”, through Video Music Box, has played an integral role within the community of Hip-Hop, which positions him as a unique preservationist with historic memory. Don't miss this fun night!

$19 Ticket To An Open Bar Super Bowl LVII Party

Acclaimed by Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, and CNN, PHD Rooftop Lounge in Dream Downtown will infuse your Super Bowl LVII Sunday with views, vibes, and booze. Amidst jaw-dropping Manhattan scenes and a sparkling crown, this one is definitely a win-win. No matter the temp outside, delight in every square inch of this unparalleled indoor/outdoor space. You'll dance & drink amongst the who's-who of the city, equally marveling at panoramic Manhattan skyline vistas - hello, Hudson River and Empire State Building! The Chiefs & the Eagles will face off in this exciting game for the ultimate title, and you're expected to do one thing: imbibe in excess from the open bar, dance to the sounds of a live DJ, watch the game on multiple massive TVs, order some delish eats when cravings kick in, and have a blast with your crew. Nothing short of unforgettable, you'll be thrilled no matter who takes home the trophy...

Fukushima Sake Tasting

The Fukushima prefecture of Japan has won the most Gold Prizes 9 years in a row at the century-old Japan Sake Awards. Fukushima Sake is created with unmatched craftsmanship and the finest taste. While famous in Japan, Fukushima sake is still not well known to the outside world. Enjoy a free tasting session of premium Fukushima sake and whisky!

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1792 Bourbon with Uncle Ralph McDaniels, Ice T - October 26, 2022

1792 Bourbon with Uncle Ralph McDaniels, Ice T – October 26, 2022

On October 26, I joined 1792 Bourbon and hip-hop historian Uncle Ralph McDaniels  for an untypical evening gathering legends of their crafts in the heart of NYC. Featuring live performances and Video Music Box-style interviews with hip-hop royalty including Ice T, among others; signature cocktails created by mixologist Shannon Mustipher; neat tastings of the full 1792 portfolio; dinner and…

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Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961), better known by his stage name Melle Mel (/ˈmɛli mɛl/) and Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip hop recording artist who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Glover began performing in the late 1970s. He may have been the first rapper to call himself MC (master of ceremonies). Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) and Cowboy (Keith Wiggins). While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term hip-hop while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five began recording for Enjoy Records and released "Superrappin'" in 1979. They later moved on to Sugar Hill Records and were popular on the R&B charts with party songs like "Freedom" and "The Birthday Party". They released numerous singles, gaining a gold disc for "Freedom", and touring. In 1982 Melle Mel began to turn to more socially-aware subject matter, in particular the Reagan administration's economic (Reaganomics) and drug policies, and their effect on the black community.

A song "The Message" became an instant classic and one of the first glimmers of conscious hip-hop. Mel recorded a rap over session musician Duke Bootee's instrumental track "The Jungle". Some of Mel's lyrics on "The Message" were taken directly from "Superrappin'". Other than Melle Mel, no members of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five actually appear on the record. Bootee also contributed vocals (Rahiem was to later lip sync Bootee's parts in the music video).

"The Message" went platinum in less than a month and would later be the first hip-hop record ever to be added to the United States National Archive of Historic Recordings and the first Hip Hop record inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Mel would also go on to write songs about struggling life in New York City ("New York, New York"), and making it through life in general ("Survival (The Message 2)"). Grandmaster Flash split from the group after contract disputes between Melle Mel and their promoter Sylvia Robinson in regard to royalties for "The Message". When Flash filed a lawsuit against Sugar Hill Records, the factions of The Furious Five parted.

Mel became known as Grandmaster Melle Mel and the leader of the Furious Five. The group went on to produce the anti-drug song "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)". An unofficial music video starred up-and-coming actor Laurence Fishburne[3] and was directed by then-unknown film student Spike Lee). The record was falsely credited to "Grandmaster + Melle Mel" by Sugar Hill Records in order to fool the public into thinking Grandmaster Flash had participated on the record.

Mel gained greater fame and success after appearing in the movie Beat Street, with a song based on the movie's title. He performed a memorable rap on Chaka Khan's smash hit song "I Feel for You" which introduced hip hop to a wider and more mainstream R&B audience. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five had further hits with "Step Off", "Pump Me Up", "King of the Streets", "Jesse", and "Vice", the latter being released on the soundtrack to the TV show Miami Vice. "Jesse" was a highly political song which urged people to vote for then presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.

In 1988, after an almost four-year layoff, Mel and Flash reunited and released the album On The Strength, but with up-and-coming new school artists such as Eric B. & Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, and Big Daddy Kane dominating the hip-hop market, the album failed miserably. Mel performed with The King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew on "King Holiday" aimed at having Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday declared a national holiday. Mel also performed with Artists United Against Apartheid on the anti-apartheid song "Sun City" which was aimed at discouraging other artists from performing in South Africa until its government ended its policy of apartheid. Mel ended the decade by winning two Grammy Awards for his work on Quincy Jones' Back On The Block and Q – The Autobiography of Quincy Jones albums.

In 1995 Duran Duran did a cover version of "White Lines" featuring performances from Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel and released it as the second single from the Duran Duran covers album Thank You':.

In 1996, Mel contributed vocals to the US edition of Cher's hit "One By One". Their version is only available on the maxi CD format.

In 1997, Melle Mel signed to Straight Game Records and released Right Now, an album which features Scorpio (from the Furious Five) and Rondo. This album took more of a harder rap style. It barely sold at all in the US and the UK.

Mel and Ralph McDaniels a.k.a. Uncle Ralph

In 2001, under the name Die Hard, he released the song "On Lock" with Rondo on the soundtrack of the movie Blazin. Die Hard released an album of the same name in 2002 on 7PRecords.

On November 14, 2006, Mel collaborated with author Cricket Casey and released the children's book The Portal In The Park, which comes with a bonus CD of his rapped narration. It also features two songs, "World Family Tree" and "The Fountain of Truth", by a then unknown Lady Gaga performing with Mel. The book was re-released in 2010. Also in 2006, Melle Mel attended professional wrestling school. In 2007 (at age 45), he stated in an interview with allhiphop.com that "I'm going to try to take some of John Cena's money and get with WWE and do my thing".

On January 30, 2007, Mel released his first ever solo album, Muscles. The first single and music video was "M3 – The New Message". On March 12, 2007, Melle Mel and The Furious Five (joined by DJ Grandmaster Flash) became the first rap group ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In his acceptance speech, Mel implored the recording industry members in attendance to do more to restore hip hop to the culture of music and art that it once was, rather than the culture of violence that it has become. He added, "I've never been shot, I've never been arrested, and I've been doing hip hop all my life. I can't change things all by myself. We need everybody's help, so let's do it and get this thing done."

On October 10, 2008, Mel appeared on Bronx-based culinary adventure show Bronx Flavor alongside host Baron Ambrosia. In the episode "Night at the Bodega", he appears as a spiritual mentor to sway the Baron from his over-indulgent ways and get him on the right path to success.

In April 2011, it was revealed that he would take part in a new hip hop/pro wrestling collaboration, the Urban Wrestling Federation. Its first bout "First Blood" was recorded in June 2011.

Mel also appeared in Ice-T's 2012 hip hop documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap.

In August 2015, Mel appeared with Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz in Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's song and music video "Downtown".

In May 2016, Mel and Scorpio, performing as Grandmaster's Furious Five ft. Melle Mel & Scorpio, released their single "Some Kind of Sorry"

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Easy Mo Bee (L) and 'Uncle' Ralph McDaniels attend the 2nd Annual Jam Master Jay Celebration Of Life Fundraiser at S.O.B.'s on January 22, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage

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Salute Unc ! Reposted from @becklyn718 IT'S UNCLE RALPH'S BDAY MEET ME HEREAAAA!!! THIS SATURDAY FEB 27TH 9:30 GO TIME!! #Repost @videomusicbox • • • • • • So I won't be on tonight, but this Saturday for the BDay..Ralph McDaniels and friends Wear your VMB gear. Link in bio videomusicbox.com #BIRTHDAYSAREEVERYTHING #LOVEMYDJS #LOVEISLOVE #POWERFULPEOPLE #REALKNOWZREAL #LEGENDARY #PILAR #VIDEOMUSICBOX #TPATPnyc #BECKYNUÑEZ #THEPARTYAFTERTHEPARTY #WINNERSLOVETOSEEOTHERSWIN https://www.instagram.com/p/CLvVjibnFZz/?igshid=1uab2w15b7co5

[cartermagazine]

Today We Honor Ralph McDaniels ‘Uncle Ralph,’ VJ Ralph McDaniels and Video Music Box @videomusicbox brought the music and culture of hip-hop to our floor model 25inch television from Monday to Friday on channel 31 in NYC. Friday Night Videos on NBC and MTV were not showing hip-hop videos in the early 80s, it was Uncle Ralph and Lionel C. Martin and Video Music Box showcasing Curtis Blow, Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, Whodini, The Fat Boys, and Roxanne Shanté videos… Video Music Box open doors for more hip-hop artist like Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, MC Shan, Boogie Down Productions, The Get Fresh Crew, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. & Rakim, Heavy D. & The Boyz, and Kool G. Rap & Polo to name a few. Uncle Ralph inspired millions of African and Latino Americans with showcasing a reflection of themselves on television when networks like CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, (Channel 9, Channel 11, and Channel 13 for you New York heads) refuse to. He inspired a young Brooklyn kid like myself to follow a career in film and media and continue his legacy of introducing the culture to our glorious past and prosperous future with CARTER™️ Magazine, “where history and hip-hop meet.” Thank you✊🏾👑🖤 “I wanna give a shout out to Nas @nas , @showtime and everyone who was involved with giving Uncle Ralph his flowers and bringing the ‘You’re Watching Video Music Box’ documentary to the people.” - Q, CARTER™️ Magazine CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #ralphmcdaniels #uncleralph #videomusicbox #vjralphmcdaniels #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/cartermagazine/p/CYEHrC-rmEe/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#tbt - Happy Belated BDay wishes to @videomusicbox a.k.a Uncle Ralph McDaniels. Thank you for capturing all those amazing events on video for Video Music Box viewers like me!! (at Mass Appeal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BucjzuMAgB5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1au4cnaw4lk4

[coolnessempire]

Happy Birthday to the man we all grew up watching on TV Uncle Ralph McDaniels @videomusicbox ✌🏾 #ralphmcdaniels #VideoMusicBox #HipHop #coolness https://www.instagram.com/p/BuYjzQDlRcgLPnNSSoU8xQvvq-zdtV_Af0xiqE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sk0d1dbg4rat

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#summerfestival July 10th-July 16th It's The 13th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival With DMX, The Lox & More Performing Live. Music By @djmistercee @stretcharmstrong @koolboblove @stretchandbobbito Hosted by yours truly @torae & Uncle Ralph McDaniels @videomusicbox Head to @bkhiphopfest Or Log On To BKHIPHOPFESTIVAL.COM For More Info. #brooklyn #brooklynhiphopfestival #bk#goodmusic #dmx #lox #hiphop #goodmusic #instamusic #remix #favoritesong #bestsong #photooftheday #bumpin #repeat #listentothis #goodmusicTuneIn. (at Brooklyn Bodega)

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Video Music Box creator Ralph McDaniels aka Uncle Ralph did a presentation on the creation and development of the popular video show bringing back memories that had his audience singing and dancing at the BRIC Media House, in Brooklyn, NY. Video Music Box is an American music television program. The series is the first to feature hip hop videos primarily; and was created in 1983 by Ralph McDaniels and Lionel C. Martin, who also serve as the series' hosts. McDaniels also directed many of the hip hop videos, which includes WuTang Clan, NAS, MC Lyte, Slick Rick et al. #videomusicbox #ralphmcdaniels #uncleralph #hiphop #brooklyn #bric #bricmediahouse

[glenntoby]

On Friday March 23, It’s Watch NetFlix & Chill Night With, Hip Hop Legend Roxanne Shante. Her Epic Biography "Roxanne, Roxanne" Will Debut On Netflix @ 8PM And Selected Theaters in New York City & Los Angeles. Congratulations M.C Roxanne Shante @imroxanneshante Proud Of Your Accomplishment & Your Contributions To Hip Hop Culture. This Film Will Change LIVES .... Shout Out To Film Producer Uncle Ralph MCDaniels @videomusicbox The Hip Hop Curator. @mrsweetyg #hiphop #roxanneshante #mrsweetyg #mcsweetyg #drglenntoby #thebbf #LifeIsABattle #survivor #hiphop #rap #culture #netflix (at Queensbridge Houses)

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Singer Keith Sweat and VJ and Hip Hop culture pioneer 'Uncle' Ralph McDaniels attend the Ladies Night Valentine's Day Edition concert at Madison Square Garden on February 10, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)