Earlier today (11/14), New York Mayor Eric Adams invited some of Hip-Hop's biggest names to City Hall to celebrate the subculture's 50th anniversary.

Grandmaster Flash, Roxanne Shanté, Master Gee of The Sugar Hill Gang, Slick Rick, DMC of Run-DMC and DJ Chuck Chillout stood with the mayor who sported an Adidas tracksuit and shell toe Adidas sneakers - a homage to Run-DMC and other Hip-Hop pioneers.

The gathering was part of a fundraising effort in partnership with the Universal Hip-Hop Museum. "When I was in the studio cutting "Rappers Delight" there was no way on planet Earth that I thought I'd be sitting here in City Hall with the mayor and all of this," said Master Gee.

"When they first approached me and told me 'Listen, what we are going to do, 50 events, 50 days celebrating 50 years of Hip-Hop' I was like that's a lot of 50's," Roxanne Shanté told the audience.

Mayor Adams shared that it was listening to Hip-Hop that guided him while he was rising through the ranks of the NYPD before becoming a politician. The City Hall press conference launches a year-long series of fundraising efforts and events leading up to next year's official opening of the museum next year.