Making a Mark
Is what Curtis Sherrod Executive Director of the Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem has been doing. For the past 4 and half years, he has been in charge of showing the history of hip hop to the public
Surrounded by pictures of Kool Herc and the Cold Crush Brothers, Sherrod has taken upon the duty of explaining the beginnings of rap music and the Hip Hop culture and giving props to those who started it.
Black Truth News caught up with Mr. Sherrod during a free block party for the community. And he was kind enough to give us a one-one interview.
Black Truth News: What made you start the Culture center?
Sherrod: It’s interesting, a lot of people profess and say that Hip Hop is a culture, but if it were a culture, we are an institution, so we decided to have a brick and mortar building that epitomize what hip hop is.
Black Truth News: You think it’s important to preserved, the Hip Hop culture for the future? How important do you think that preservation is?
Sherrod: I think it is not only it is important (to preserved it), but it is important it’s told by the people participated in it. A lot of times when people report on history, its his-story so it’s immensely important that we not only tell our own story but then we teach to our children and to our people so that we know how things started and so then we know how to take things to next level.