On Saturday night I was privileged to watch the ‘Rebuilding the Bridge’ charity event at Pace University, to raise money for Chinese earthquake victims.  Talk about an AMAZING show loaded with huge stars.  I finally got to see why Phil Lam and Hoc Poeng (fearless generals of Ningin) were so busy the past few weeks working to put the show together, and this extravaganza definitely didn’t disappoint.  There were lots of logistics not to mention controversies that I’ll let other people comment on if they want.

The show was largely hosted by Miss Info of Hot 97, who was clearly passionate about this charity and used her Rolodex to pull in some amazing and talented names from around the entertainment industry.  The show included appearances or performances by Beau Sia (you might know him from this eloquent video), J-Lim, JYP, Ryan Leslie, Rik Cordero, DJ Cipha, DJ Delinger, Nas (!!), and also a meet and greet with the JabbaWockeez.

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On top of these appearances or performances, there was a DJ battle on stage, as well as a B-Boy dance battle between two of NYC’s best crews.  Also, there was an extremely interesting story that JYP gave about Jackie Chan, who encouraged and inspired him to try to make it in the American music industry, as well as was one of the driving forces behind putting together a star-studded music video in support of Chinese earthquake disaster relief.

Another extremely interesting story was about how Fox twisted and demonized Nas after he supported Asians regarding V-Tech (big surprise from Fox), but I love the response video from Nas directed by Rik Cordero on the subject.