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JVC Force live at the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Saturday, Sept 26th after screening of Long Island Underground Legends of Hip-Hop documentary at the 2nd Annual Long Island Music Documentary Film Festival
Salute to the 4 Pillars of Long Island Hip-Hop, DJ Nelson PR, DJ Pleasure, Spectrum and The Mechanic. Shout to @archiesnowden aka MC Amazin A for documenting the History! #StrongIsland @mussin_macco @thaoldschooladvocate_ taken in Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame by @jvcforce

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JVC FORCE LIVE IN LONDON
Video by @professor.pea
#JVCFORCE #StrongIsland #LiveInLondon #HipHopLive #ClassicHipHop #GoldenEraHipHop
#StillStrongIsland #JVCForceTheLegacyLives
#BLuv #AJRok

🎤 AJ ROK Presents: ROK The Mic...Live Hip-Hop. Legendary Moments. The Culture Through My Lens. taken in LONDON, Venue 229, Great Portland Street by @jvcforce

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T-Money introducing JVC FORCE at the Video Music Box Experience in Eisenhower Park @lookitstmoney @videomusicbox @mrajwoodson @b_luv_of_jvc_force @djmajestik
#JVCFORCE #StrongIsland EisenhowerPark #HipHopLive #ClassicHipHop #GoldenEraHipHop #VideoMusicBox #TMoney
#AJROK #BLuv #DJMajestik
#StillStrongIsland #JVCForceTheLegacyLives taken in Eisenhower Park by @jvcforce

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STRONG ISLAND IS BACK ON STAGE 🔥

JVC FORCE — AJ Rok & B-Luv — the Long Island legends behind the 1988 anthem "Strong Island" are back where they belong: on stage, moving crowds.

From 12,000 strong at the Video Music Box Experience on Long Island, to the Urban Matterz Festival in the Netherlands, to the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame, to London — 38 years after "Strong Island" first dropped. Golden-era hip-hop, live and direct.

2 MCs + DJ. 30–45 minute festival-ready set. Booking 2027 now.

📩 JVCFORCE2025@gmail.com

#JVCForce #StrongIsland #HipHop #GoldenEraHipHop #LongIslandHipHop #AJROK #Bluv #LiveHipHop #ConcertFootage #Booking2027 by @jvcforce

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J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. — “STRONG ISLAND” (1987)

🌊 LONG ISLAND IN THE HOUSE. BEFORE THE WORLD CAUGHT ON.

Before the island became a name-drop in countless Hip-Hop conversations, J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. put it on wax and made sure everybody heard it.

“Strong Island” is pure late-’80s East Coast energy. DJ Curt Cazal lays down a heavyweight funk backdrop while AJ Rok and B-Luv trade bars with that raw, back-and-forth chemistry that made early Hip-Hop feel like a block party captured on vinyl.

And that horn blast? Absolutely unmistakable.

The production flips Freda Payne’s “The Easiest Way to Fall” and “Unhooked Generation” into a rugged, rolling groove. Then comes the iconic “Strong Island!” shout from Chuck D’s “Rebel Without a Pause” — a perfect connection between two sides of New York’s Hip-Hop identity.

But this record was about more than samples and a catchy hook.

J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. helped put Long Island on the underground Hip-Hop map at a time when New York’s boroughs dominated the conversation. Their anthem gave the local scene a voice, a rallying cry and an identity of its own.

Released as a single in 1987 and featured on their 1988 debut album Doin’ Damage, this is the kind of record that reminds you how much history can live inside one break, one horn stab and two MCs trading lines.

No fancy tricks. No overthinking. Just funk, personality and hometown pride.

LONG ISLAND STAND UP. THE CRATES HAVE RECEIPTS.

🎧 Dig deeper with the Crates Don’t Lie Spotify playlist for more timeless underground gems and Hip-Hop history.

Follow Crates Don’t Lie for daily doses of real Oldschool Underground Hip-Hop.

#JVCForce #StrongIsland #GoldenEraHipHop #OldSchoolHipHop #CratesDontLie taken in Long Island - New York by @jvcforce

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When I say "Strong" you say "Island"... JVC FORCE performing "Strong Island" at The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Saturday Sept 26, 2026

#Strongisland #JVCForce #BLUV #AJROK ##LongIslandMusicHallOfFame taken in Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame by @jvcforce

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Join us in wishing a Happy Born Day to the Legendary Teddy Tedd from the Awesome Two @legendaryawesome2 by @jvcforce

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Join us in wishing B-Luv a happy, healthy, and blessed Born Day. by @jvcforce

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Ran into the homey Mikey D at the Hudson Valley Hip-Hop Festival in Poughkeepsie @mikeydestruction by @jvcforce

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#jvcforce #doindamage #jvcforcestrongisland #jvcforcedoindamage #vinylhiphop by @jvcforce

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JVC FORCE would like to send Congratulations to Archie 'Amazin A' Snowden for winning the Most Outstanding Film Award at Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame 2nd Annual Long Island Music Documentary Film Festival for his film 'Long Island Underground Legends of Hip-Hop' #StrongIsland by @jvcforce

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@jvcforce #longislandhiphopfolm #longislandmusichalloffame by @jvcforce

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