Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update 1o.14.o5

RAHMAN JAMAAL IS A CABLE MOVIE MEGA STAR:
Don’t forget that Hip Hop Congress national board member Rahman Jamaal is currently being featured on TMC (and has been featured on Showtime, Starz and Black Starz) in his movie “The Beat.” For those who have not seen the film, Rahman rips many mics and also delivers a powerful acting performance. If you are too broke to purchase cable, borrow a friends Blockbuster card or hit up Netflix, where it is also available.

WHERE THE LADIES AT?:
what’s up, y’all? Sarah coming back at you. I am working with some other people in the congress to put together a page on the website for a listing of contact info for women involved in hip hop. this would be a tool for females and males to network and become more familiar with female artists and organizers. It would also provide promoters, event-throwers, organizations, clubs, etc. a place to find female artists so they can add a little more estrogen to their line-ups. if you know of females who are artists, organizers/activists/educators, promoters, journalists, radio djs, etc., you can send me their info cerahshocker@hotmail.com. I will contact them before I add them to the list to get their okay and complete info. peace!

COLORADO STATE:
Party people
We are proud to announce Higher Ground 2.0! Our yearly jam is upon us on October 14th-15th. We have a $2000 2 on 2 Bboy Battle, $1000 MC Battle, $500 Bgirl Battle, and a $500 2 on 2 Popping Battle. Our DJ’s include Bles 1 of the Massive Monkees and Presto 1 of Rocksteady. Our Judges are FloMaster, ZuluGremlin, and Roland from headhunters NV. Presto will be hosting a DJ workshop the night before the jam. Check out our sites in for more information about the jam. If anyone wants to come out we can provide places to stay.
Any questions, email: HighergroundCSU@yahoo.com
http://www.genetikgear.com
www.myspace.com/higherground2

Peace
Matt McDonald “Bboy RokO”

DLABRIE, THE JACKA, & KUNG FU VAMPIRE:
Are all keeping it crackin Peep these upcoming dates and support your local Hip Hop Congress Artists

November 11 @ Youth Uprising – 8711 Macarthur Blvd
Featuring D. Labrie, K-Doe, Black Bizness & JB
Special Guest the Jacka (Mobfiggaz)
Poppin’™ Showcase by Atomic Boy (Playboys Inc.)

Saturday 10.22@ the Claron in Santa Clara, CA
G Willikers
The Settler
Paragraphics
D Labrie, K-Doe, Jason
Voorheez, Jadalicious
(The Allianc) (experimental/hip hop)

for more information on either of these shows, please contact dlabrozia2004@yahoo.com

EPSILON PROJECT NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!:
Help Support!!! VOTE FOR US!!! INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE ALSO… THEN JOIN US AT COACHELLA 2006!!! And if you can’t join us, VOTE STILL to SUPPORT!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!

This message comes directly from the Hip Hop Congress artists Epsilon Project, who are putting it down something major in Southern California right now. They need all the support they can get to hop onto the Coachella Music festival. I don’t know if they can provide backstage passes, but it might not be bad idea to show them a little vote love.

You can learn more about them at: www.epsound.com | myspace.com/epsilonproject

SHAMAKO GETS HIS FREESTYLE OLYMPICS ON:
Next Wed. Oct 19. In San Francisco will be the second ever Freestyle Olympics. This contest pits over 20 emcees against each other in 3 different areas of competition: Topical, Tempo and Battle. If you are into freestyle, but your tired of the “your mom is this and my *blank* is *blanker* than yours,” then come and check it out.

Here is the information:
10/19/2005 09:00 PM
Freestyle Olympics Prelims @ Blue Cube
San Francisco, CA 94101

HHC RADIO:
Last week’s hiatus was due to a trip to hooters w/ an unnamed Zulu king. This week we got AC the Program Director playing some of his new mix tapes and pluggin the new store. Tune in next week as we turn water to funk.

-Gesundheit

CAL STATE FULLERTON:
What the deal comrades. Last week we had DJ Mark Luv of the Universal Zulu Nation talk with us about all facets of Hip Hop. Stories were told and knowledge was dropped. This week we had a hip hop game show hosted by yours truly, Gesundheit. I’d like to think that it was a good time had by all. Team fluffy bunnies or some shit won in the bonus round after a lot of back and forth action. Big ups to all contestants. Next week, DJ workshop w/ DJ Frank(e) and Wally Sparx.

Peace, Eric

USC:
What up?! Eight weeks into the semester and six emails later…brought to you by the good folks at Hip-Hop Congress here at the University of Southern California. Hopefully, everyone has finished midterms and can relax for a few more weeks. There is no meeting this week. Details to come in the next email on next week’s meeting. Every week we hit you up with an article the peeps at HHC feel is important for heads to be reading. This week we got an article entitled “Feds Outline Case Against The Inc.” By EbenGregory. Till the next update. Holla back. Respect. HHC.

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s crackin folks? We just had our meeting today where we took care of some business for our next upcoming event, which is going to be, big! Lyrical Discipline’s 4th Year Anniversary show featuring Cali Agents, Loot Pack, and Lunar Heights. Also we had a spoken word, open-mic night tonight at 8pm. We’re working on an outing for HHC members to go out and kick it. Other then that we’re just tryin to promote our event and trying to grow as an organization. Aite y’all til next week. payce.

WILLAMETTE:
Contracts have gone out for Neema/Unexpected Arrival to come and perform 11/11 as the headliner for our Awareness festival. Campus Chair Austin Buell is also in the process of contacting all the surrounding colleges to let them know whats going down 11/11.

At our Monday meeting we decided to move the Elements Show, originally scheduled for February, till after Spring Break. This was decided so that we could have an easier time getting the desired space for the event. The Hardwoods come up in the main gym after bball season, and that is where we want to be, good acoustics and plenty of room.

We scored some badass turntables from the now defunct Willamette DJ club, we will be breaking them out at the dance for out Japanese DJ’s. So the HHC now has it’s own set of $1400 turntables.

Peace,
A

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“You are the big tree…we are the small axe” —Bob Marley