Lyricist Lounge 35th Anniversary featuring Jadakiss
About This Event
Live event at BRIC
About Lyricist Lounge
Lyricist Lounge is a New York–rooted hip-hop showcase built around live rap performance, DJing, and the visual language of graffiti. It helped formalize the open-mic cipher into an institution, giving emerging and established voices a shared stage and helping define the city’s late-1990s underground-to-mainstream pipeline. At BRIC, the 35th Anniversary edition frames that legacy as a live event, with featured appearances including Jadakiss. One clear takeaway is how the format treats community as the headline, not the backdrop.
About the Artists
Lyricist Lounge 35th Anniversary
Lyricist Lounge 35th Anniversary marks a return to a New York City institution that began as an open-mic series and grew into a widely recognized platform for hip-hop performance. The anniversary program at BRIC frames that history as a live event, moving between concert energy and staged presentation.
Jadakiss
Jason Terrance Phillips, better known by his stage name Jadakiss, is an American rapper who began his career in the 1990s and formed the hip hop trio the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in 1994.