Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o3.18.o5

NEW CHAPTER: BELOIT:
We want to welcome Barry who has started our 27th chapter of the Hip Hop Congress, and the first in Wisconsin at Beloit College. They have a great event in one month. Check out details here: http://www.soniaandmatt.com/cypherstyles. To contact them, email beloit@hiphopcongress.com

Welcome, Beloit!

MESSAGE FROM THE BELOIT CHAPTERHEAD:
Hip-Hop Congress,

What’s cracking brothers and sisters? Beloit College is thrilled to be your 27th and newest Chapter and I just wanted to formally introduce myself and send out a big whats up to the community. My name is Barry Rabkin, I founded the Beloit College Breakdancing club in 2002 and our club is all about getting involved with our hip-hop community, especially in the midwest since we’re located right between chicago, madison and milwaukee.

In the summer I’ll be in my hometown Pittsburgh so if anyone lives near there and wants to chill or needs support organizing any events come talk to me. As Jordan was kind enough to mention, we’re throwing a huge completely free intercollegiate all day hip-hop battle at our school Saturday, April 16th. We’ll have nice cash prizes for the top competing hip-hop talent in the area, MC’s, Poppers, 3 person Break Crews and Artists. We’ll have BroDJ, John Swan and Kid CutUp, some of the best hip-hop dj’s in the area spinning for us and It’ll definitely be an event to remember and a great chance for us all to get to know each other. Check out http://www.cypherstyles.com for all the details and please spread the word and website to any friends, hip-hop performers or connections you have in the Midwest area who might be interested in it. Our flood arena can hold 2300+ and we’re all about trying to pack the place with screaming hip-hop lovers. If you have access color printer and want to help out, it would be great if you could print out some copies of our flyer (from the FAQ questions section of our above event website) and put them up in your area in some high traffic spots.

Anyway, really I just wanted to introduce myself and my club to you all. Since I know most of you have never heard of Beloit, we’re a little but very lively liberal arts college right between chicago, madison and milwaukee and near rockford and janesville. We’re thrilled to be involved, thanks to Jordan and Amer for bringing us in and to all the people who have already sent us warm greetings. Much love to all of you, I speak for our whole club when I say that we’re looking forward to a long, fun, eventful future together, peaceout everybody.

-Barry Rabkin
The 27th Chapter of the Hip-Hop Congress, Beloit College

THE JACK ARTIST:
HHC artist The Jacka has released his second album, The Jack Artist. It has national distribution and should be in Towers, Best Buys and Sam Goody’s across the country. Check him out here: www.thejacka.com. It is a little more street oriented than you may be accustomed to, but the Jacka is going to do a lot to help our streets. In his own words:

“Not only am I talking about certain things that people are living and going through everyday but I’m speaking on ways they can change. So it isn’t like I am leading them into the fire. You got to really be…they say “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”; you got to be “a sheep in wolves clothing” in order to talk to people from the streets. You got to be them…you got to live just like them and let them see another side of you so they’ll know that ain’t the only thing that you do. I mean you may not change everybody but a few people will.”

The music is dope and he’s starting to get a great buzz. Check him out and pick up a copy!

SHAMAKO FREESTYLES FOR 30 MINUTES:
Every time I listen to this, I am completely convinced I have never heard anything like it. And I think he can do better. But this works for now. 30 Minutes STRAIGHT of freestyles from Shamako Noble. DJ Roosevelt Treasurechest throws a variety of beats at him over the course of the half hour which was broadcast on WIUS in Bloomington, Indiana. Download the MP3, listen to it daily, study it, pass it around: www.goldenmeanmusic.com/shamako/shamako30.mp3.

BECOME A HIP HOP DANCE INSTRUCTOR:
My name is Kelly Sahagun, HR Recruiter for Young Champions. We are a recreation organization providing youth programs since 1987. We offer Self-Defense, Basketball, Cheerleading, Hip-Hop Dance, and Soccer programs throughout Southern California and Nevada. In our endeavor to find talented instructors, we are seeking your assistance. Please pass on the enclosed flyers to Coaches, Assistant Coaches, and Colleagues. They may know of individuals such as alumni, upcoming and recent graduates, interested in a part-time teaching position. Candidates need to have sports experience. We will provide training on teaching methodology. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Kelly Sahagun
HR Recruiter
Young Champions
www.youngchampionsusa.com
kelly.sahagun@youngchampionusa.com

GRINNELL:
After coming off of a hot concert with Brother Ali and Treologic, we are on to planning for our major events in April which include Chicago Beatbox, Steppin’ Show, and poetry performance with Kevin Koval from Chicago. Our weekly Wednesday Elementz has been very successful in the past few weeks.

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s crackin my peoples? jus chilin out here in the yay area. We had another successful event last Tuesday called Distortion 2 Static, which is a hip-hop tv show that airs on the WB locally in the Bay Area. We had them come through so they could get Hip-Hop Congress on tv for some footage, and we also landed front page of the Spartan Daily (SJSU’s skool newspaper) for our event. They ran a story on our chapter, which gave us some good exposure. Also on Thursday local legends Souls of Mischief performed at a club in downtown San Jose where a group of our members that are 21 and over went to and saw a dope ass performance. Well that’s what’s going down for SJSU HHC.

See ya’ll next week. Payce

CAL STATE LA:
It’s finals week. Our event Bring Your Skills experienced a small turn out, but we still had a good time. Wally Sparx from UC Irvine came out and provided the sounds. L. Scatterbrain and The Living Mechanizm killed it with dope sets. Time to get back to writing papers and studying (yeah right). Lates…

Jerald Amaya a/k/a Darkside

INDIANA:
Indiana is on a well deserved spring break. Check you in a week when we are tan and relaxed!

Aaron

VASHON HIGH SCHOOL:
This week is nothing different from the last. Everyone is working hard on their tracks for the Congress Mixtape. A voting session was held by the Vashon Chapter on whether we would censor the album so we could sell it at school or whether we would curse and sell it on the streets.

In the end it made more sense to sell it in school because everyone knows of the Congress in Vashon but not on the streets. After that, the album will spread out from the school.

We also sat down this week and learned exactly what propaganda is from the great Dead Prez.

Towards the end of Congress we had a cipher battle that grew out of control. When a member of Prize Up—a local crew—took random shots at a female casualty by using the word “bitch” and other misogynistic (G taught us what that means) language. A fight was about to occur when too many harsh lines were exchanged. We soon gained control and the beef was squashed.

But this goes to show that we have to come together as one rap nation and ban the “B” word from our rhymes and talking about female rappers and females in general. As one person said, “It’s just not cool anymore.”

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“If they lying to me then they lying to you
But if you listen to me this is what you can do
Open your eyes take a word from the wise
Cause in the news, news crews straight disguise their lies” –Louie Young of Vashon