Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o2.17.o5

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
Everything is out of control, nothing is in order, and I think I lost the third digit on my left foot but the festival is almost here and I am sure we’ll get something together. its going to be nice to see Irvine, Ill, STL, Iowa, Chi, NY, the Bay Area and more repp’d. OHIO GET AT ME!

Peace from your favorite chapterhead’s favorite chapterhead,
Aaron

The 5th Annual Awareness Festival is coming to Bloomington. So is Amer, Fruchter, Christina, Shamako, Jordan, and MC Ronnie McRonRon (powerless CIA cowboy). Check out the schedule of events:

February 22: Freestyle – The Art of Rhyme: a documentary film on the art of freestyling and battle rapping. WOODBURN HALL ROOM 126 7:30PM ADM: FREE

February 23: Afeni Shakur and Jasmine Guy: experts on activism and modern revolution will be speaking. IU AUDITORIUM 7PM ADM: FREE

February 24: Poetry Slam: with guest poets Psalm One and Thaione. Local artists will take the stage showcasing their poetry to compete for a cash prize of $50. IU MEMORIAL UNION GALLERY 7PM ADM: FREE

February 25: Workshops: on elements of hip hop, the music industry, hip hop in the classroom and the future of the hip hop community by Ron Gubitz, Jordan Bromley, and Shamako Noble. These will be free flowing sessions where participants are encouraged to bring lots of questions to interact with the workshop leaders. COLLINS 4-6PM ADM: FREE

Performances: by Mac Lethal, Honors English, Shamako Noble, and HalfBlown with 2 Scoops Malone at the WIUS STATION HOUSE 7:30PM-10PM ADM: FREE

February 26: The following events will be held in Wilkie Auditorium free of charge but with a suggested canned food donation.

Bboy registration: 1PM-3PM
$1000 Bboy battle: 3PM-6:30PM
$500 MC battle: 7PM
Brother Ali performance: 9PM

The following events will be held at 9th Street Bar (between College and Walnut):
TopSpeed and Cee-Fade host DJ battle: 11PM
DJ Trackstar, DJ Sleeper and Verseatile performances: 12PM

Video games and door prizes will be available. There will be a $1 cover due to no student funding of bar events, must be 21 to enter.

HIP HOP CONGRESS RADIO:
Hip Hop Congress Radio is live and in effect. Beginning next Tuesday, we will be broadcasting over the internet from 9-10pm pacific standard time. Please let it be known to all HHC artists that they can send in their material now and we can all share and unify via cyberspace for 1 hour a week. Interested artists: Please contact us @ csufhiphopcongress@gmail.com. Tune in @ http://tir.fullerton.edu

INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP CONGRESS CONFERENCE:
The conference is tentatively planned for the weekend of June 16th to June 19th in Chicago, Illinois.

We are creating a team to work on the conference. There will be a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 17th at 8pm at UIC’s CCC (750 S. Halsted) on the second floor by Java City.

If you are at all interested, respond to this e-mail, call 773.474.0375, or show up to the meeting.

This is a great opportunity for any and all Hip Hop heads, artists, crews, organizations, and activists.

Questions? asad@hiphopcongress.com

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN:
UC HipHop headed to Indiana next week! Other than that, we are trying our weekly night at the Canopy Club on Thursdays now because everyone punks out on Mondays. Sunday Session @ Allen Hall this past week was probably the best so far, we had MCs workshopping in one room, b-boys in another and DJs in another…finally! Got some UC HipHop T-shirts in the makings to fundraise and made a huge revamp on uchiphop.org.

Peep it! See those who head out to IU then..peace, Victor

USC:
It’s about damn time! Believe dat. Finally, the wait is over. And HHC and the USC administration have finally fixed all of the problems. Weekly meetings “will,” and we mean that this time, meet starting next week. The start of our Famous Freestyle Fridays in front of Tommy Trojan are still on hold. We’re trying to take things one step at a time here. We’re just glad weekly meetings are in place. Freestyle Fridays will hopefully begin next week. Right now we’re there are some ideas floating around that the LA Scratch DJ Academy will perform in front of Tommy. There is also the possibility of HHC taking a trip one day to the Scratch Academy for a free lesson. We’re trying to bring it together.

GRINNELL:
Whas up Congress?! Well our dates our set: March 5th Brother Ali and Treologic are coming up to Grinnell. If any of the Iowa Chapters would like to go to this concert get up at HIPHOP@grinnell.edu and we will see what we can do from there. Look forward to hitting up the Hip Hop Summit Feb. 25th in Pella. Grinnell gives mad props to the Central College Chapter!

Elena

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
We had two events last week that went real well. The first was a sexism in hiphop seminar with guest speaker Zen, who is the co-founder of the woman alliance in hiphop. It was poorly attended, but still a live event. Then on Friday we had an excellent turn out for Outerspace and the Caution Crew. Right now we are focusing on fund raising so we can put on a workshop for a local elementary school.

peace,
Tommy

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s crackin HHC? We jus chillin out here in San Jose tryin to maintain our connections with local artists. We helped set up for a local cat named Jonah who is comin up wit an album called “Family Affair.”

Some of our chapter went out to The Great Mall in Milpitas to help support him. Also last week we had our info night. The turn out was pretty good we had about 10 new faces. We kicked sum knowledge to them about HHC and our mission. We also gave them reasons why they should join HHC. It was koo we all grubbed afterwards on sum Coscto pizzas. Aite folks til next week. Payce.

VASHON:
We did our 16 Bars of Fire on Love, and next week the topic is Black History. The Roosevelt High School is trying to start a chapter and they came. We battled for 45 minutes. We won. And our basketball team is #1 in the country. Out.

Have a great week.

Peace and love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

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