Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o9.29.o5

UC IRVINE:
Congress HEADS! yooooo! this is Anh the new chapterhead reppin UC IRVINE and this is my first weekly update ever! shit yea! dang…our first week of school is just beginning so we’ve just been promoting for all of welcome week and really, we should be promoting like that for the rest of the quarter. Gene got ahold of some dope ass Kanye promos: teddy bear late registration goodie school folders, our tent was up and bumpin hot HOT beats with resident djs wallysparx, likewise and click/synergy and we were really luring in these clueless freshmen to seeing what Hip Hop Congress is ALL ABOUT! we had a funny ass poster sayin: “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Hip Hop Congress” and everyone and their mom got it besides for some bush lovers..ehh haha, i guess our promotion for the club had a kanye west theme but it worked man! mad props to all the irvine heads that came out to support us and now we have a poppin! venue for our meetings every week…in crystal cove auditorium where the administration told us we could play our music as loud as we wanted without NO complaints. ohhhh it doesnt get any better than thisss.

ch-ch-check out pictures at http://photobucket.com/albums/a120/hiphopcongressuci/

MAD LOVE <3<3 to everyone else out there...oh! and i almost forgot, i made some stickers that i want to distribute to the hhc crew out there. a picture of it is on the link above...if you'd like one...send me your address to anhipoo@gmail.com and how many and we'll see what we can do =)....peace easy....ANH

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s crackin folks? We had our Hurrican Katrina Relief with people donating around $80, which will be matched by the Associated Students on campus. We had some spoken word, some people playing the congas, singing, and some Kappas and Iotas stepping. It was a pretty dope event which landed us in the school’s newspaper. Other then that we jus lookin forward for throwing our next event 4th year anniversary show, which we are bring Cali Agents, Dj Romes and Wildchild from Lootpack, MED, and Lunar Heights. It should be dope. aite my weoplez til next week. payce.

USC:
What up?! Six weeks into the semester and four emails later…brought to you by the good folks at Hip-Hop Congress here at the University of Southern California. I know everyone is steadily preparing for midterms. If not, you’re already in the thick of things. Last week’s meeting at Tommy’s Place featuring battle emcee extraordinaire and Project Blowed and J.U.I.C.E. affiliate NoCanDo was off the hook – a mad crazy experience for all those that stopped by. Big ups! There is no meeting this week…but details to come in the next email about next week’s meeting. This week, HHC members will also get a chance to read an article that appeared on www.allhiphop.com entitled “Russell Simmons, Rev. Run Talk VH1 Hip-Hop Honors” By EbenGregory and Nolan Strong. Till the next update. Holla back. Respect. HHC.

CAL STATE FULLERTON:
Hello. We just finished our second meeting where we began our semester-long exploration of the History of Hiphop, starting with the four elements and how each got started. We’re also in the works for having another two-part event, like last semester’s Get Up to Get Down. Next week (Tuesday, October 4, 2005 @ 7pm in KHS-174), we will have special guest: DJ Mark Luv of the Universal Zulu Nation to school us on all things Hiphop. We’re gonna have us a grand ol’ time. – Trish (Co-chair)

HIP HOP CONGRESS RADIO:
Once again, another shameless plug from HHC Radio. Some of our guests the past two shows were Epsilon Project and Deux Process. Listen to us live every Tuesday at 9pm (PST) on http://www.titanradio.org. Peace!

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY:
We have begun to get the money together for the Hoodies. The design is in, and we voted on it. Details of the design to follow later. Think straight HHC tag 4 inches tall across the chest, and this Wu-tang inspired WU-Chapter design on the back.

We hope to have the Hoodies back buy the 18th, fingers crossed! On the 18th we have the Den reserved and the sound on its way for the WU chapters first event. We are looking to pair up with the TIUA (Tokyo Institute of the US) kids and probably let Mazu spin for us. He has some skills and we do have some sick tables.

The Awareness festival is still scheduled for 11/11, many details for this to still be ironed out, hustled up, and worked out. What we do know is that we are about to get in contact with every campus within a 100 mile radius, and then all of the other heads who come along with, to let them know about the HHC at WU. And how we do…

Peace,
A

LORAS COLLEGE:
We are having our next open mic Wednesday. A lot of people have been asking about it and we are anticipating a big turn out. We had our semester fundraiser, but plan on another since most of our proceeds went to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. A student just joined our chapter that will be doing our flyers for our events. This is great for him since he is a graphic design major and great for the officers so we don’t have to worry about them. That is pretty much it right now. There is talk about getting a speaker in, or a poet, or other artist in this year. If you have any suggestions let us know and we will check you out.

-Allison Evans
allison.evans@loras.edu

AMER AHMED/DAWAH in MINNESOTA:
i moved to Minnesota a few months ago. Hoping to get chapters poppin’ off in this state over the course of the next year or so. At least one on the campus i’m workin on (Concordia College – Moorhead, MN). I’ve also begun planning a HHC Minnesota Summit from Feb. 17-19 feat. The Last Poets, K’naan (www.thedustyfoot.com), the Bedouin, M-1 from Dead Prez (tentative), C.O.R.E. (www.core.biz), and Kanser (www.alexschien.com), The Bedouin, Nazeeha TruAysia, Napoleon Maddox from IsWhat?! and hopefully others as well.

Finally…i recently joined an Intercultural Diversity Consulting Group out of Minneapolis called One Ummah Consulting (www.oneummahconsulting.com). They do great work and it’s truly an honor to join them and i’m really excited about the opportunity.

Stay peace everyone and thank you all for all the great work that you’re doing to build this movement! You’re all part of the inspiration that helps me keep pushing forward and i hope that i contribute in whatever way i can to the work you’re doin’ as well…Together we’re doin’ it everyday the way it needs to happen for progression to occur…we need each other and serve as important reminders to keep this thing going because we have so much further to go still! Stay up y’all…

Peace…One…amer

DAVEY D. in the STL:
Davey D will be the Keynote speaker for Media Education Week at Meramec Community College in St. Louis on October 12th at 1:00 PM. Don’t miss this special opportunity. For more information, email: Eric Meyer emeyer@stlcc.edu

OHIO UNIVERSITY BBOY BATTLE:
On Sat. October 15th, we are having “Panic Zone” a 3 vs. 3 B-boy battle from 2pm-6pm. The grand prize is $1,000. Second place is $500. Crazy Legs will be coming to judge it. We need as many b-boys to participate as possible we would like some to be from other HHC chapters. So any b-boys please contact me to register. Also any other members from other chapter are more than welcome to come, especially the midwest chapters. We will find a place for you to stay for free.

This will be your chance to visit beautiful Athens Ohio (plus we are the #2 party school in the nation). Hopefully this will be huge!

peace,
Tommy Boone

NYC REDBULL SHOWCASE:
About The Red Bull Artsehcro:
The Red Bull Artsehcro showcases sixty of the most progressive collegiate classical musicians performing the world premier of “Concerto for Turntable,” an original composition by DJ Radar and Raul Yanez written for the turntable as the solo instrument within an entire symphony orchestra. The piece features Radar’ and Yanez’s own scratch notation, a system that documents all of the scratching techniques that can be performed on a turntable and translates them into Western musical notation. “Concerto for Turntable” will mark the first time a turntable has ever played on Carnegie’s stage.

Any way you could help spread the word would be very much appreciated.