Passing The Crown: Celebrating The Queens Of Hip Hop

Passing the Crown is a groundbreaking celebration of the queens of hip-hop, bringing together Olympic-level B-girls, orchestral musicians, MCs, and DJs in a genre-defying performance that moves fluidly between concert, dance battle, and cultural tribute.

Passing the Crown is a groundbreaking celebration of the queens of hip-hop, bringing together Olympic-level B-girls, orchestral musicians, MCs, and DJs in a genre-defying performance that moves fluidly between concert, dance battle, and cultural tribute. Premiered at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City Festival, the production honors the creativity, influence, and resilience of women across generations, from Queen Latifah and Monie Love to Rapsody and Doechii. Through cinematic orchestration and street dance vocabularies, it reimagines the hip-hop canon through the lens of female and gender-expansive artistry.