Remixing the Holidays: Hip Hop Holiday Music

It’s the week before Christmas, and as usual, we’re celebrating with our annual ?Remixing the Holidays? series. All week long, we’ll be talking with musicians, music lovers, writers, and you, our listeners, about the best songs of the season. We kick things off with Jon Solomon. For over twenty years, Jon ? who is Jewish, by the way ? has been hosting Princeton University’s 24-hour Christmas special on WPRB.

This year, he’s decided to walk us through the often underappreciated genre of hip-hop holiday music. And he’s here to reassure us: it goes far beyond Run-DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis.”