New Orleans Hip Hop Museum  is a place that fuels creativity, engages minds, and provides inspiration. Our mission is helping all understand the art of that is hip hop music and its influence on the culture.

The New Orleans Hip Hop Museum exhibits all the aspects of  Hip Hop music and culture and the vast contributions made by residents of  New Orleans.  In adorn to exhibitions, the museum also offers classes in dance, fashion design, DJing and music spring and development including music and film production. The museum also hosts several events year round, celebrating New Orleans.

In the 1970s, an underground urban movement known as “hip hop” began to form in the Bronx, New York City. It focused on emceeing (or MCing) over house parties and neighborhood block party events, held outdoors. Jamaican-born DJ Clive “Kool Herc” Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion “breaks” in hip hop music.

By the 1990’s New Orleans had become a burgeoning epicenter of a new version of hip hop called “Bounce.”

Bounce originated in the city’s housing projects and bars during the late 1980s.

Bounce was popularized at a club called Ghost Town by MC T Tucker.

The global influence of hip hop culture has shaped music styles, fashion, technology, art, entertainment, language, dance, education, politics, media, and more. To this day, hip hop continues to be a global phenomenon, developing new art forms that impact the lives of new and old generations.