Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o3.3o.o5

NUMBER 28 at INDIANA STATE:
Wow we keep on moving. We’d like to formally announce that we’ve added our 28th Chapter to the Hip Hop Congress. The newly formed Hip Hop 4 One at Indiana State. Look out for big things coming out of this chapter. Midwest chapters, please send Aaron (ISU Chapterhead) an email welcoming him to the fold. indianastate@hiphopcongress.com All other chapters, hit him up as well. Let’s build a solid foundation for years to come.

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Finalizing plans for our HipHop Week…hopefully it’ll be a full fledged one..so far we’ve got IL Breaks 2005 (April 23rd) and Blueprint/Illogic (April 21st) show confirmed. More info on the b-boy event is available at www.ilbreaks2005.lostpaperclips.com. Neighboring chapters are invited to come through! I’ll be in touch with y’all. Other than that, the weather was great today so we had a big cipher on the quad. Got a date auction fundraiser coming up as well as a few shows (Video Trapped the Rapper Tour, Talib Kweli). Peace!

USC:
What up from Hip Hop Congress! We got a double-special for you’all this week. Not only are we throwing down a weekly meeting tomorrow, Weds. March 30. But we also doing a special meeting on Friday, April 1. We’ll be wrapping up the semesters’ meetings on Friday with a special freestyle workshop featuring the ever-popular Rahman. And there is the possibility of us watching a movie on freestyling. We’ll also be talking about an article that appeared on DaveyD.com entitled “Civil Rights Leaders: Back Up Before You Disrespect Hip Hop Again!!!” By: Adisa Banjoko.

Respect HHC.

TEXAS STATE:
This week we are getting ready for the First Annual Hip Hop Congress Exchange on April 2nd! 1st Annual Hip-Hop TRiO Student X-Change on April 2, 2005, in association with Multicultural Student Affairs. The 1st Annual Hip-Hop TRiO Student X-Change is a new event which hopes to establish a common ground where 100-150 disenfranchised adolescent students can learn and discuss the importance of education and identify higher education as a means to eliminate barriers to problems associated with socio-economic status and cultural diversity.

The TRiO Programs (Educational Talent Search, Rural Talent Search, and Upward Bound) are nationally recognized programs designed to identify students with the potential to succeed in higher education by providing them with material on and assistance with college applications, scholarship searches, and various financial aid programs.

Also Monday April 4th we are going to have a fun-raiser at one of our local restaurants were we will receive 20% of then proceeds.

VASHON HIGH SCHOOL:
How you censor an album will determine how it will sell. But what you censor might help drown you. That was the week’s most highlighted topic we had in the Vashon Chapter of Hip Hop Congress. The whole chapter sat down and debated whether censoring our songs will sell the album. In conclusion we came to the agreement, (again!!) and decided not to use cursing or the often used “n-bomb” that is used all the time in the rap industry.

We also came together and listened to a fist full of songs that are debuting on the album. Everyone had obtained the idea for each song and presented their concepts. Me personally, I heard two songs that could definitely hit the radio and bring more publicity to the nationwide Congress.

Last week we learned the meaning of propaganda. This week we begin learning how censorship affects the rap game.

-Reko

HHC CHAPTERS:
University of Southern California
Indiana University at Bloomington
University of California Irvine
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cal State Los Angeles
Walnut Hills High School
Ohio University
San Jose City Chapter
Vashon High School
Oxnard Community Chapter
Loras College (Iowa)
Loyola University (Chicago)
Chicago Community Chapter
University of Hawaii at Manoa
San Jose State University
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Washington University at St Louis
Columbia University (Chicago)
University of Illinois (Chicago)
Cal State Fullerton
Texas State San Marcos
Grinnell College
NYC Community Chapter
Poughkeepsie NY Community Chapter
Beloit College (Wisconsin)
Indiana State University

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

MINDGAMES EMCEE BATTLE:
The Academy of Hip Hop at the Reikes Center presents Mindgames: An Emcee Battle @ the Cage
32 man emcee battle for $500
$20 entry fee
8 team 2 on 2 battle for $300
$30 entry fee
May 7th, 2005
1-5PM
$10 at the door $7 w/flyer or internet posting

Performances by:
Dem-One
D Labrie/ Tha A.L.L.I.A.N.C.E.
Nac-One
Big Murph
GTA
Students of the Riekes Center Academy of Hip Hop
and the Boys and Girls Club of Redwood City
Live Painting by David Seiler

On the wheels of steel:
Ren the Vinyl Archeoligist (True Skool)
Tone Def (KMEL)
Dj Wreckanoise
Hosted By Shamako Noble
with surprise guest judges
3455 Edison Way
Menlo Park, Ca 94025
For more information please contact 408-551-9728 or e-mail shamako@riekes.org
www.riekes.org or www.humanenhancement.net

4th ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
The date is tentatively set for Chicago, Illinois from June 23rd to the 26th. See you there. More details and information will be forthcoming.

Indiana and San Jose State are on Spring Break.

If you are gonna be in St. Louis for the Final Four, hit me.

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress
“It’s all about purpose, progress, not perfection.” —Gift of Gab