In his statement, Mr. McDaniels said: "He stuck to the true essence of what a D.J. in a hip-hop performance should be.

The film opens with him being refused backstage access at a hip-hop performance, plainly because his skin is of the wrong shade.

On the one hand, Mr. Power employs the syncopated rhythm, the rhymed language, the street culture subject matter, the turntable percussion, the break dancing and other thrillingly fierce choreography of hip-hop performance.

Shown on HBO on Saturday afternoons throughout 2000 and 2001, the show featured dancers and hip-hop performances, and was hosted by Fran Charles and Kevin Kelley.

This moment tends to diminish the significance of women in early hip-hop performance as if by 1984 female emcees were already exceptional to a musical genre that was still emerging and developing.

There was live hip-hop performances throughout the day, as well as B boys and girls, and music from DJ Adonis and DJ Gravity.

In 2006, he and Jean held a hip-hop performance in the Bel Air suburb of Port-au-Prince that was part of the USAID-funded Clean Streets project.

Saarang also played host to a hip-hop performance by Havikoro in association with the US Consulate and sponsored by Everonn Education Ltd.

As at other stops in the A.C.L.U. tour, the political portion of the evening was only loosely linked to the hip-hop performances that followed.

Hosted on MTV by Nick Cannon, this is a hip-hop version of the show with guest stars (among them Wayne Brady from the original show) and hip-hop performances.