MC Lyte Takes “Road To The Hall Of Fame” With 12-City Tour
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EXCLUSIVE: MC Lyte is turning her upcoming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction into a nationwide celebration with a 12-city tour built around music, storytelling, history and the fans who helped make her a Hip-Hop icon. Tickets: MCLyte.info
MC Lyte isn’t simply heading to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She’s taking the people who helped build her career along for the ride.
The pioneering Hip-Hop legend has announced the Road To The Hall of Fame Tour, a 12-city national run celebrating her historic induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Stretching from Brooklyn to Honolulu, the tour is being positioned as more than a traditional concert. Each stop combines performance, storytelling and conversation, creating what amounts to a living archive of MC Lyte’s career and the history surrounding it.
In an exclusive conversation with AllHipHop’s Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, Lyte explained that many of the cities on the itinerary aren’t random tour stops. They are places connected to the foundation of her career.
“It’s actually a run that I did last year in the winter,” Lyte told AllHipHop, noting that several familiar markets are returning while others have been added.
“It feels like I’m just returning home,” she said. “Gives an opportunity for me to get in contact with the people who helped make me, really.”
The Road To The Hall of Fame Tour will give Lyte something increasingly rare in an era of festivals and multi-artist nostalgia packages: time.
Rather than squeezing decades of music into a shortened greatest-hits performance, Lyte is preparing approximately 90 minutes of music, stories and interaction.
“We’re going to go through the catalog,” she told Creekmur, revealing that she plans to perform “I Am the Lyte,” produced by Grand Puba.
“I’m going back in the crates.”
The format also allows Lyte to present herself without depending upon a parade of celebrity cameos.
Special guests could appear, but she isn’t designing the show around them.
“Thank God, because of the catalog that I have, I don’t really need to pull out a bunch of stops,” she explained.
If friends happen to be nearby and want to join her, they’re welcome.
“I’m really trying to give the people who I am,” she said. “And who I am takes time when you’re talking about a 90-minute set.”
She doing other things, in addition to music.
She also teased acting projects, directing work and continued activity involving clients VanVan, Ariel and DJ Germaine.
“We are just overflowing with things to do,” Lyte said. “The to-do list is long, Chuck.”
MC Lyte is heading toward the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by revisiting the cities, records, stories and people that helped get her there.
The Hall of Fame is less of a finish line and more like another stop on the journey.
Below are the dates, links and locations for MC Lyte’s “Road To The Hall Of Fame” tour.
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