Hush Tours

We enjoyed it very much! It was impressing and exciting to be guided from this legends of Hip Hop! Peace

The hip hop tour was fantastic. Well worth seeing if you have the chance!!! Very interesting and fun with a great host and guests.

Grandmaster Caz was entertaining, had a really good vibe and was so much fun. He had a smile on his face the whole bus ride. His performance was awesom and the information provided on each location was interesting and sufficient. I wud definately recommend to anyone. Old skool Hip Hop lovers from Bondi, Sydney are going to hear about this tour from me for sure.

My husband and I really enjoyed ourselves, Caz was great to be around. He was really down to earth and real. If you desire knowing the history of hip hop this is the tour to go on. 1love

I highly recommend this tour !!!!. Very educational, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable!! Grand Master Caz, you did a GREAT job!! If I'm ever in NY again, I'll bring a friend. I wouldn't hesitate doing this a second time

If your lucky enough to get Grandmaster Caz, you will learn a lot and be thoroughly entertained. He is undeniably the greatest of all time!

The hip hop tour led by Grandmaster Caz was great! We visited the site of Kool Herc's first parties, the graffiti wall of fame, and saw a number of important landmarks. Caz was entertaining and informative, even rapping his own version of Rapper's Delight to correct the original one that Sugarhill Gang made famous without crediting him as a lyricist.

We highly recommed this tour. Our holiday would not have been so perfect without it. We´ll sure do this again with our kids and friends! Very special thanks to GM CAS!

The tour guides were excellent and gave a lot of background detail (Debbie and GM Caz). They always gave us enough time to look at the stop offs and take photos and also ask questions. You get to see a lot in the 4 hours without feeling rushed. The restuarant where we stopped for food was out of this world. Would highly recommend this tour to anyone. This is the 2nd time I have done this tour and each time has been slightly different.

this was our first full day in NYC and what better way to spend it than on the hush hip hop tour. We had a great time chilling with GMC and also had a group of high school kids from Brooklyn on our tour which was great too... very entertaining and educational day all round. one love from AUS!

I really enjoyed it ... but .... the product is billed as "with Kurtis Blow" ... however, he wasnt there at all. From the information supplied on your site, I was under the impression that he would be leading the service. he wasnt there at all though. I was very disappointed, because the main reason I went was because Kurtis was gonna be there (i'm a massive, massive fan and I travelled all the way from Sydney). So yeah, was disappointing. Having said that, i found the tour fun, and the guide, Debra, was excellent. I think the company should put a disclaimer on the site about Kurtis not definitely being there, just so people like me dont end up disappointed when he doesnt turn up. Thanks Rachelle

Fab hosts really looked after us and we thought the graffiti stop was awesome! Perhaps we could have stopped in Queens at the town centre where all the hip hop bling was on sale to buy a few gifts. Otherwise a great day for true hip hop fans. Thanks again

This is a fun thing to do in NY and my ten year old son particularly enjoyed it. However, it does rely on the energy of the rest of the group to be really successful - which is something out of the hands of the tour guide. On our tour were approximately 20 people from a group, plus myself , my son and two others. I did feel that the large group overwhelmed the tour, excluded others and monopolized the tour. If you are in a group made up of friendly individuals/couples/families you'll have fun. That said though, Reggie Reg was great - if a little unprepared regarding his batteries (as mentioned by another person's review who was in this group), and I really feel that the film at the Museum of the City of New York was superfluous to the tour. It was great to see interesting historical sights of Harlem, especially BOBBY (it wasn't Smokey) ROBINSON'S Harlem Happy House record store, Malcolm X Mosque and the Graffitti wall of fame. An interesting way to while away a Sunday afternoon.

I personally know quite a lot about hip hop and its origins, and am a big fan of this music genre in particular and of many other music genres. I love listening to the great motown legends and the apollo was a great highlight for me, as was meeting the legendary Smokie Robinson which left me star-struck. Walking through Harlem was also very interesting and both myself and my husband felt comfortable strolling along the streets of this historic neighborhood. Reggie Reg was our guide, and at first he used a microphone which allowed us too to hear about the history we were walking through, even though we were often at the back. Unfortunately, very early on, he claimed that his microphone was not working because the batteries were flat (he should come ready with charged batteries) and from this time on we generally had no idea of what was being said by him. He also failed to wait for everyone to catch up before explaining about a site. These are things that can be corrected, and from what we did hear, Reggie has great knowledge of hip hop and it's history and is a fun guy to be around. Despite these mishaps, both my husband and I recommend taking this interesting tour. It is different and a unique experience.

We met at an easy location close to the empire state building. (only down side was our hotel was in Harlem so we had to travel all the way downtown just to go back.). The tour owner and bus driver were a little late, but no one seemed to mind...the tour was pretty laid back. Grandmaster Caz was great! He was a wealth of information about the hip-hop world and its inception. He was genuienly happy to education us about a cuture and music that some of the people on the tour knew nothing about. We saw the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on the upper east side where such people like Biggie Smalls and Luther Vandross had their services. We saw the grafitti hall of fame in Harlem. We saw the Apollo Theatre, the famous Theresa Hotel (where plenty of celebrities have stayed), and "The Carlton" building from "New Jack City." We had lunch at "Mannas Soul Food Buffet and Salad Bar." The food was wonderful and the prices were reasonable (around $13 for 2 people). We also saw the mosque wear Malcolm X worshipped, and we spent some time at Ruckers Park. We drove over to the Bronx and saw the building where THE first hip-hop party was (remember August 11, 1973, if anyone decides to take this tour!) Our tour got a special bonus. While driving in the Bronx, we saw KRS-ONE giving an interview in a parking lot and we were able to meet and talk with him. He was really cool about it, and everyone just felt that was a great way to finish such a fun day. We had to cut one thing out of the tour due to the KRS-ONE detour, but no one cared. Grandmaster Caz performed one of his songs, which was awesome! We returned relatively on time to the same spot they picked us up. The bus was comfortable; a little warm a times, but we were getting off of it so much, you really could tell. All in all it was a great tour. If you like hip-hop music and want to see where it began, this is a great starting point. If you spend the night, I recommend staying in Harlem. I walked around Harlem the rest of the weekend and had an amazing time soaking in more history, and culture, and the great food! Thanks Hushtours!