It’s been a decade since Kurtis Blow joined “The Hip Hop Nutcracker,” but the legendary rap pioneer from New York City says he vividly remembers the moment it happened.
“They came to me and said, ‘Wow, you would be great being a part of this new show called ‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker,’ ” Blow says on a recent video call. “And I said, ‘What?’
“I remembered the old Nutcracker and so I went over to the rehearsals and I saw these B-boys and B-girls just doing their thing, rehearsing to classical music,” he says. “And I just thought to myself, ‘This is amazing,’ because I’m a big fan of classical music. And that fusion of hip-hop and classical music, I became a fan of it.
