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SummerStage kicked off tonight’s festival with local artists to celebrate&nbsp;Hip-Hop Celebration&nbsp;Day.

News 12 was told that 3,500 people were in the crowd for the&nbsp;back-to-back&nbsp;performances.

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Summer Stage kicked off tonight’s festival with local artists to celebrate Hip-Hop Celebration Day.

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Hip-Hop Celebration Day celebration kicks off in Coney Island 

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well, national hip hop day being celebrated tonight in true Brooklyn fashion as summer stage kicked off. Tonight's festival at the coney Island amphitheater, a lineup of local artists and as you can see a packed house news tells mary Lynn buckley there tonight. Right now. She joins us with more mary Lynn. What was the scene like there? People having a good time I'm guessing. Oh yeah, good time indeed kurt. We just stepped outside, but good news for us. We can still hear the music from where we're standing. But hip hop day here in Brooklyn had many brooklynites excited and inside we got to see performer after performer taking the stage playing their music and even a couple of people not shy to show off their dance moves in the crowd that it's the Brooklyn way we're told, but also a large audience taking all of this in this is an annual celebration and it's free some of the performers including DJ scratch DJ Stokes, ralph McDaniels and black sheep. Just to name a few people, a lot of local talent representing generations worth of hip hop. This is an important holiday for the world, right? It's the day that hip hop was born. So there's nothing better than celebrating that with music and culture with a packed house. We're here in coney Island. So it feels good and join the old school rat tonight and I, so this is my culture because I grew up, this is a real meeting And a lot of celebrating still underway inside. But we do here. The music from out here, a lot of people really happy to come out and celebrate this annual tradition. We're in Coney Island. Mary Lynn Buckley is 12 Mary Lynn by my count. That's two concerts and one firework show already for you this summer, you're winning this season. That's all I'm gonna say. Alright, happening too.

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