ICECUBES: Lady B's hip-hop star-studded 30th anniversary party

Lady B gets showered with star hip-hop treatment at her 30th anniversary bash at The Dell on Sunday.

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ICECUBES: Lady B's hip-hop star-studded 30th anniversary party

POSTED: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 12:00 PM
Filed Under: Ice Cubes

What did Lady B get on Sunday for her 30th anniversary of on-air support of hip-hop in Philly? She got rain. Lots of rain at The Dell's open-air theater space. But she also got 7,000+ fans with enough devotion to her love off all things old-school rap to stand wet while watching and listening to a fur-hooded Flava Flav, a racist-ranting MC Breeze and a gangsta-growling Schoolly D. She got Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Pepa and Bell Biv Devoe, too. But mostly she got her old Wynnefield neighbor Will Smith, who rapped up "Brand New Funk" and "Summertime," danced to Salt-N-Pepa’s sleek “Whatta Man” and rhymed with Doug E. Fresh. Take a look at four photos of proof above.

We might be seeing a lot more of Smith in the area soon. And not just because he's looking to film with his son and his locally connected director M. Night Shyamalan. The gossips in Us Weekly and InTouch claim that Will and his missus, Jada Pinkett Smith are separated after 13 years of marriage ...

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