Vol.
XXVIII
Dec 1, 2024
[THE MAIN EVENT]
“The Hip-Hop Architect” speaks on designing The Bronx’s long-gestating Hip-Hop Museum
UpRising: The Hip-Hop Museum has been in the works since 2016. How do you even start an undertaking this ambitious?
Michael Ford: It started as a vision. A dream. Kurtis Blow and others thinking about what they leave behind beyond the music. Throughout the last eight years, it's been exploring different locations in the Bronx, doing community engagement, bringing artists together to talk about what the museum can be.
[IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING]
Much respect to the DJ, but this classic condiment has a spicy backstory that long predates Kung Fu Kenny's viral shoutout
Thousands of years ago, before God’s son roamed the planet wearing chancletas, mustard was king of the spice world.
Hebrews cooked with it. Egyptians chewed the seeds. And people from Rome to China grounded it into a paste. It was more than an ingredient: You could use it to treat wounds, to stimulate an appetite, even to soothe a scorpion bite. Eventually pepper came along, and mustard had some competition. But by then, the practice of mixing it with unripe grape juice to create a condiment had stuck—the word "mustard" is rooted in mustum, the Latin word for the juice.