RAKIM: A hip-hop revolutionary

One of Charlotte’s original “streetcar suburbs,” Plaza-Midwood’s history dates back to the early 1920s and part of it still are recognized as a local historic district. Here you’ll find grand homes on wide streets, just steps away from some of the most-happening shopping and noshing in town. Central Avenue teems with good food, good buys and good people. (C’mon, where else can you buy a fuchsia wig, get a facial and then chow down on a chili burger?) P-M neighbors are wonderfully convivial, gathering often at their honest-to-goodness community garden, during their “Winter Fling” celebration, and when welcoming visitors to the “Midwood Maynia” festival and home tour. Whoever says Charlotte doesn’t have soul hasn’t been to Plaza-Midwood lately.

Grant Britt writes about local, regional, and national music from his Greensboro, N.C., home, and has written for the Greensboro News and Record, Our State Magazine, The Independent, and Creative Loafing...

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  1. I was at the concert 9/28 and RA ripped it!! He gave it to the people and we loved it. Kid Kapri did his thing too. I only wish this isn’t a one time appearance.

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