Hundreds of hip-hop fans braved threats of rain to gather in DUMBO for the sixth annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival.

Brooklyn Bodega brought together 3/5 of the producers of Illmatic (Large Professor, Pete Rock and DJ Premier) all on stage together for the first time in US history, united Q-Tip and Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey for an in-depth discussion on the late, great J Dilla for the first time ever on record, assembled a loaded line up of legendary DJs including the first session with DJ Rob Swift (of The X-ecutioners) and DJ Rhettmatic (of the Beat Junkies) since 1996 for tonight’s “Salute The DJ” and hosted De La Soul’s first major NYC show in 9 years.

Check out photos and videos from a historic weekend!

De La Soul rock the stage:

Pete Rock sounding like DJ Premier in an interview. Ha!

This weekend in NYC Styles P, Pharoahe Monch, dead prez, DJ Premier, and many more braved the rain to put on a great show at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park. The 5th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival was a well attended but tight run affair (how you gonna tell Monch to cut his set short??). Anyway  here are some clips courtesy of Itstheofficial.com.

Styles P @ Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2009 from Its The Official on Vimeo.

Pharoahe Monch @ Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2009 from Its The Official on Vimeo.