Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o6.14.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE:
Join us in Boulder for our 5th Annual Hip Hop Congress National Conference. There will be workshops, performances, networking opportunities, and many good times. Hit www.hiphopcongress.com for more information. We look forward to seeing you there. If you have questions, email Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

CHICAGO CHAPTER:
Chicago will be repping hard at the Conference this year with about a dozen people heading out to Boulder from this area. Everyone is excited to attend! We have also been hard at work finalizing details with the National Hip Hop Political Convention. Everyone will probably get an update on that when we see you.

Until then, PEACE!

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY:
We ended things the right way: our 1st Annual 5 on 5 Bboy/Bgirl Competition entitled “Hit the Breaks, Bring the Steeze”!! We had approx. 400 people show up with 6 crews competing on a Sunday Afternoon. We had performances by local beatbox duo Brothas Grimm and Life the Guardian. Even with technical difficulties, the performances were dope! Best day for HipHopCongress and although we received funding from the school, this event was completely planned by us: Hip Hop Congress Seattle U Chapter. I must say it’s nice being the first chapter in the state of Washington because you can do whatever you want!! It was truly amazing watching history in the making: this is the first time Seattle University has ever had a breakdancing competition on campus, Best believe that!! Thanks for letting us finally become a chapter, and we hope to do some amazing things next year!

WILLAMETTE:
The Willamette Chapter of the Hip Hop Congress is going to have to be absent at the conference! This is not by choice, but is what has happened. I am working 60 hours a week, and my boys are either in Germany (World Cup), or Greece (spoiled Willamette kids), or broke kickin it in Seattle (Thats me and Tristan) Damn lost some money on this trip….

To let you know what we have been up to, go to http://influx.uoregon.edu/2006/ and check out the article on pg. 40. Thats how we do! Casper the Friendly White Honkey in effect!

Much love to the whole HHC crew, and I know I will see y’all next year! If not before! We may not be reppin in Boulder, but we are always doing the Congress justice in the Northwest!

Peace,
Casper The Friendly White Honkey

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“Wake up and live right now. Yes, sir.” —Cee-Lo

Weekly Update o6.o7.o6

NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BOULDER 6/22-6/25:
The schedule has been released! Roll over to hiphopcongress.com to download the schedule in Word. Word.

Don’t forget to book your room at the Boulder Outlook. Walking distance from the conference events and only 90 bucks a night. You can fit up to 4 people per room so it works out to something like 25 a night with tax.

To reserve your room, go to www.boulderoutlook.com. 1800 542 0304. We have 30 days to fill them up at this rate so please call and book the room today. It’s better to reserve and cancel if for some reason you need less rooms than to need another room and not be able to get it at our rate.

If you are interested in attending, performing, or just want to say hi to Shamako, please email him at Shamako@hiphopcongress.com

UC IRVINE:
ahhhhh…the rush is finally over, and it’s time to take a deep breath because this year has been an amazing year for Hip Hop Congress at UCI no doubt!!!!! ORG of the YEAR baby! yeeeeeeahhh!

We ended things off strong with a crazy big show featuring Supernatural and Ghostface Killah which was fun…but if it was a solo HHC project, things would have been much different…but that’s what happens when you work with other organizations…and now we just know what there is to know. Can’t wait to show you all footage at conference.

But the time has come to say goodbye to some of our beloved HHC All-Stars cause graduation is right around the corner. Gene, Jeremy, Kenny, Manny (and anyone else I may have missed)….you fellas are the shit. Keep the Hip Hop Alive when you hit the world….cuz that’s what y’all do best. Luv ya mean it! and the rest of youse….be ready for KillaCALI to roll deep to Colorado….cannot wait to see your silly faces.

PEACE
anh

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do cuddies? yo your boy finna graduate from SJSU and let the new blood run hip-hop congress san jose state university chapter. I ain’t retiring i’m jus moving to Macramento that’s Sacramento for y’all not from the yay area yadadamean? but hope to see all ya’ll out in colorado doin ya damn thizz. all we have planned this week is mad studying for finalz and no meeting. However we are finna roll out to Pedro’s Restaurant in Santa Clara to have our annual banquet and we’re going to show our appreciation to a woman named Hyon Chu Yi who has helped Hip-Hop Congress at SJSU whenever we needed anything. Our semester is over at SJSU and we jus postin up doin our thizz. We’re still mentoring kids at Burnett Academy out here since they’re still in skoo and we’re finna throw a lil jam for them on Thursday. Dj Dripso is going to be tearing it up on the wheels of steel and hopefully we’ll have some folks breaking and spittin some hot lyrics yadadamean. Other then postin up we are waitin for the conference out in colorado so we can rep the yay area by goin dumb and ridin the yellow bus!

see ya’ll soon. one.

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
Our Hip Hop Awareness week went really well. The Women in Hip Hop seminar was so popular that we overflowed the room, The Ol School Hip Hop party was an absolute blast, the elementary school kids had a lot of fun with the elements workshop and Jeff Chang was incredible guy and an great speaker. Right now we are looking forward to Colorado, tryin to get some funds.

peace,
Tommy

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