Hip hop, R&B to take center stage in Hoboken Summer Blockfest
What does Hoboken sound like? That question will have a new answer come Saturday, Aug. 19, when the Summer Blockfest transforms 770 Jackson St. int...
What does Hoboken sound like? That question will have a new answer come Saturday, Aug. 19, when the Summer Blockfest transforms 770 Jackson St. into the city's first multi-stage hip-hop and R&B festival. Victor Manuel Lopez Jr., head of the non-profit grassroots organization What Hoboken Sounds Like, noted that a celebration of the Mile Square City's hip-hop culture has been a long time coming, in large part due to some longheld prejudices about both the neighborhood and the genre. 'It's a new welcoming for the city to allow us this platform,' Lopez said.