Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o2.23.o5

INDIANA AWARENESS FESTIVAL:
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.

INTERNATIONAL HIP HOP CONGRESS CONFERENCE DATE CHANGE:
The conference is tentatively planned for the weekend of June 23rd to the 26th in Chicago, Illinois.

Questions? asad@hiphopcongress.com

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

WASH U:
THIS IS THE WEEK! Mainflow and Scratch are blowin up the Lou Thursday night with a free show for Wash U students. Local artists Honors English are getting the crowd heated up for the real deal, then Friday is gonna be amazing with Brother Ali holdin it down. Big plans are in the works also to bring in Israeli/Arab funk/hiphop group Hadag Nachash.

Peace
Yoni

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s really good HHC? SJSU HHC is helping out the community of San Jose by dedicating 3.25 hours a week to mentoring students at a local middle school. We have 6 members of HHC doing this so we are going to try to throw some hip-hop events at their school and kick some knowledge to youngstaz. We also planning for our next events, which is probably going to be Elementations, or Distortion 2 Static, which is a hip-hop show that airs on the WB. Everything is still in the works. We’re also trying to get some new t-shirt designs for our club and we want to get a banner to promote our club at events that we throw. Aite folks take care, one.

CSULA:
This Friday is our quarterly event Bring Your Skills. We will be hosting an open mic format from 7 P.M. to 9 P.M. and will showcase the talents of two live acts The Living Mechanizm and L. Scatterbrain. We are located in Los Angeles where the 10 and 710 freeways meet. If you wanna Mapquest it the addy is 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, Ca. 90032. As far as locating the venue on the campus hit up http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm it is #36. Hope to see some of you there. Lates…

USC:
What up from Hip Hop Congress! It’s a holiday so HHC decided to hit everyone up a little earlier then usual. And it’s about damn time! Believe dat. Finally, the wait is over. Wednesday, February 23, at 8 PM HHC will be getting busy for an hour as we hold our first, and I repeat, first, weekly meeting of the semester. We’ll be introducing everyone on the board. Hopefully there will be a large turn out. We’ll also be listening to the latest release by The Game, entitled “Documentary.” Should be dope. Also, we’ll be discussing an article which appeared on Allhiphop.com entitled “Philly DJ Sues Fabolous For $85 Million” By Clover Hope.

Still on hold though are our Freestyle Fridays in front of Tommy Trojan. We’re working on coordinating a schedule between board members right now so we’re all out there together. But don’t worry, HHC will be out in front of Tommy Trojan this semester. Right now 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.

CAL STATE FULLERTON:
CSUF is holding its first official Hip Hop Congress meeting next Tuesday @ 7pm in KHS 174. The meeting will be immediately followed with HHC Radio with native Cerritos DJ Wally Sparx. Special guest Emphasis is also expected in the studio. Our first show yesterday went fairly well. Despite a few glitches and a bit of the first show jitters, the show was completed with nobody harmed, so that’s good. Remember to tune in Tuesdays from 9-10pm PST @ tir.fullerton.edu

TEXAS STATE:
Hey what’s up? This week the TX State HHC will be doing a Promo on campus to get other student orgs to participate in our up and coming events which include The Freestyle Battle “Survival of the Illest #2″on the 5th of March and our First Annual Hip Hop X-Change on April 2nd that’s in collaborations with the TRiO Program here on campus. We also have members that are going to participate in the Diversity Forum. They will be performing spoken word it’s going to be hot. This passed Sat. we participates in Bobcat Day which was focused students that might be interested in applying to Texas State and becoming a future member of HHC. Also on Sat we participated in Trio Day in Austin it was a real success we were given an award acknowledging our involvement with underprivileged youth in this community. Holla.

I am heading to Bloomington tomorrow. Crazy excited.

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

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