Historical Society of East Orange honors hometown musical heroes
Photo by Chris Sykes The members of the Cicely Tyson Elementary School's Young People for Peace group perform their remixed version of local hip-hop music legends and hometown heroes Naughty By Nature's breakout classic record ‘O.P.P.’ at the city's third annual Music, Arts and Culture Festival in City Hall Plaza on Saturday, June 17. The youngsters have replaced the song’s well-known call and response hook ‘You down with O.P.P.’ into a more modern and updated version that asks ‘You down with Y.P.P.?’ But the answer to both versions question is still the same: ‘You know me.’
