Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update 11.3o.o5

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
This will be our last update for a while, we have a six week winter break before winter quarter starts up. Winter Quarter we are bringing Bakari Kitwana down to speak winter quarter. Kitwana is the author of the book “Why White Kids Like Hip Hop.” We also plan on doing a “Violence in Hip Hop” seminar as well as another elements workshop for a local elementary school. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

peace,
Tommy

USC:
What up?! Fourteen weeks into the semester and twelve emails later…brought to you by the good folks at Hip-Hop Congress here at the University of Southern California. This is it, people. The final email of the semester for HHC. School is coming to a close here at USC. Good luck on all those upcoming finals. This week HHC there is be no meeting here at USC. We wish all of you the best of luck in your final classes and a happy holidays. Stay tuned for next semester. Usually in our emails, we drop a calendar of all the hip-hop events in the LA area going down within the upcoming two weeks. But for our ‘SC heads this update, we jotted down the hottest events in the LA area all the way up until Christmas Eve. That’s nearly a months work of jam-packed hip-hop fun. Also, every week we hit heads up with an article the peeps at HHC feel is important for everyone to be reading. This week we got an article entitled “50’s ‘Bulletproof’ Kept Off Australian Shelves, Rapper Allowed Into Canada” By Tiffany Hamilton. Stay Fresh. Stay Up. Till the next update. Holla back. Respect. HHC.

MINNESOTA:
Students are beginning discussions to organize a new chapter at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, site of the HHC Minnesota Summit from Feb. 17-19. Toki Wright of the non-profit Yo! The Movement (www.yothemovement.org) and HHC group the C.O.R.E. is working on getting a chapter together as well. Various discussions with interested parties at North Dakota State, Minnesota State-Moorhead, Carleton College, St. Thomas University and others are in the works with hopes of creating additional chapters. The goal right now is to have 3-5 new chapters up and running in the region by this time next year.

FIRST MINNESOTA HIP HOP CONGRESS REGIONAL SUMMIT:
Peace everyone!

For the first time ever, the Hip Hop Congress (www.hiphopcongress.com) will host a regional Summit in the state of Minnesota. The Summit will feature performances, workshops, and discussions featuring numerous artists from around the country and the world.

Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, will be the host for the event hosting people from throughout the region and the country. If you are unable to attend, please let anyone you know who is in the region or who may hold an interest in the event.

For additional information, please do not hesitate to email Amer@hiphopcongress.com or call 218-299-3872.

*Please note, performance schedules are filled so we are unable to accept requests for performances at the Summit.

Information for the Summit will be posted on the website by next week.

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Weekly Update 11.16.o5

FIRST MINNESOTA HIP HOP CONGRESS REGIONAL SUMMIT:
Peace everyone!

For the first time ever, the Hip Hop Congress (www.hiphopcongress.com) will host a regional Summit in the state of Minnesota. The Summit will feature performances, workshops, and discussions featuring numerous artists from around the country and the world.

Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, will be the host for the event hosting people from throughout the region and the country. If you are unable to attend, please let anyone you know who is in the region or who may hold an interest in the event.

For additional information, please do not hesitate to email Amer@hiphopcongress.com or call 218-299-3872.

*Please note, performance schedules are filled so we are unable to accept requests for performances at the Summit.

Information for the Summit will be posted on the website by next week.

THE BEAT STARRING HHC BOARD MEMBER RAHMAN:
As far as The Beat goes, the DVD is scheduled for retail-store release March 2006 nationwide. Right now it is available from Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and Netflicks. I’m working on getting some special features on the DVD to plug HHC, but as of yet there are no guarantees. For anyone who’s seen it that wants to write up a quick review of the film, email me at hiphoppa13@aol.com with your mailing address and I’ll send you a copy of “Outside the Box”, the 16-track solo LP I’m dropping next year for review as well. I’m also looking to do interviews to include in my press kit.

THE FUTURE CHAPTER AT CONCORDIA COLLEGE – MOORHEAD, MN
On Friday Nov.11, we had our first Coordinating Committee meeting for the HHC Minnesota Summit planned for Feb. 17-19. The meeting had a great collection of students from Concordia, Minnesota State-Moorhead, and North Dakota State. We’re really excited about the Summit.

On Saturday Nov. 12, we had Alex Schein and ‘Kanser’ from Minneapolis perform. Over 150 people attended and we built great momentum for the Summit and the future. Students have expressed interest in creating a chapter on campus.

On Sunday Nov. 13, Won Yup Kim, a graffiti artist from Chicago, painted a mural on our Intercultural Center’s wall…people have already been amazed by it…it’s really changed the whole vibe of the room and making it a place people want to be…

keep on movin’ and groovin’…peace…One…amer

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Weekly Update 11.o9.o5

TEXAS STATE:
Salutations from the Congress at Texas State University- San Marcos! As usual, things are going great with our plans. Right now our main focus is on our next freestyle battle which will take place on December 3 here in San Marcos at Gordo’s Bar. The battle will be called The Mike Before Xmas: All I want for Xmas is a real crunk beat!

There is a Student Organizations Coucil meeting on November 8. The University requires a representative from every organization to attend to touch base with the latest updates and policies.

November 19 is another Bobcat Day for potential students here on campus. We’ll have another booth set up with information and an email sign up sheet for the high school students.

SAN JOSE STATE:
What’s really good? We’ve just been chillin out here keepin thangs movin. We co-sponsored Students for Justice another club on campus by having some of our peops kick some poetry and spoken word at their rally for education to support the vote no on prop 73-76, so Arnold doesn’t try to cut our school’s funding even more. We also got peops workin on our mixtape which is coming soon. Other then that we’ve been mentoring kids at Burnett Academy and postin up. Holla at you weoples next week. one.

WILLAMETTE:
We did our big publicity stunt for the Awareness Festival this Friday.

We took the campus student art wall, and put down a little HHC graffiti art, in the dark of night this morning. There was a whole statement made by doing this, as we did not ask permission to paint the wall, but when does any real Graf artist have permission? It is an attempt to get in the school paper, this Wednesday, so we can get some plugs for the show. Our adviser Dr. Thabiti Lewis and the Campus Chair released a statement today explaining and defending the work, it was a culture statement. Also to let y’all know we did this shit at 2:30am,in the rain, and the whole crew came out. See attached!

The Awareness show is this Friday! Same stuff going down at this as I have been mentioning for the past few weeks. It does seem that the real battle that is going to go down will be between b-boys, we have some crews rollin out to represent! Opio Sokoni, and his film “Small City Big Hip Hop” Will kick off the event. Yes that is the same Opio

that was on the “O’Reilly Factor” last week, just pissin off White Conservative America. HA!

Peace for now!
A

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