Hip Hop Congress

Upcoming Defuse Events [H2A]

If you are interested in any of the events below (they are in the New York area mostly) CLICK HERE
Rha Goddess LOW: Meditations Trilogy Part 1
Fri May 9, 2008, 8:00 pm to Sat May 10, 2008, 8:00 pm EDT
$25.00- $5 OFF!!! Use code: LOW2108

Miami Light Project and the Adrienne Arsht Center Present Rha Goddess LOW: Meditations Trilogy Part 1

Learn more about LOW!
WLRN 91.3 FM “Topical Currents” call-in program features Rha Goddess and Dr. Peter Fraenkel from the Hip-Hop Mental Health Project on Wednesday, May 7, 1 pm.

Participate in a unique collaboration of science and art!
Hip Hop Mental Health Project
Join us for a pre-concert research session led by Dr. Peter Fraenkel that documents people’s views of mental health on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 6:30pm. Stay with us after the show for a discussion about the work as a therapeutic intervention and evaluate its impact on audience members’ views of mental health and illness.

Need more information? Call 786-468-2270
Carnival Studio Theater, The Adrienne Arsht Center

Erykah Badu & The Roots
Fri May 9, 2008, 8:00 pm to Sat May 10, 2008, 12:00 am EDT
All Ages. Cover Charge: $55.50
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Radio City Music Hall

1 Soul Designs Presents Get Soul on Fridays
Friday May 9, 2008 10:00 pm EDT
21+ to party
Rose Club

Word Beats and Life Presents Bum Rush The Boards, 3rd Annual Hip-Hop Chess Tournament
Saturday May 17, 2008 11:00 am EDT
$5 per person, includes lunch (free to be an audience member)
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Lincoln High School

Your City: International Youth Crime & Cities Summit
Tuesday June 17, 2008 to Saturday June 21, 2008
Youth and Children Championing Community Safety for a better world…

MCs for Life
Saturday June 28, 2008 to Sunday June 29, 2008
MCing represents the ultimate expression of attitude in popular culture, provoking even more outrage than Rock ‘n Roll in the 50s and Punk in the 70s. In recent years, MCing has become the most prominent of the four main elements of Hip Hop. Whilst, to a certain extent, this has always been the case, this recent development has led to a separation of terminology, with much of the music that would have traditionally been called hip-hop now referred to as rap.

‘MCs for Life’ seeks to address these issues, in particular through looking at the role of the MC within hip-hop as a whole. The conference will look at the development of the MC, from the ‘toasting’ with Jamaican sound systems in the 1970s to the birth of Hip Hop when MC’s would toast over a breakbeat.

The two-day conference will include discussion panels, masterclasses, films and battles, as well as exploring the changes in language and styles of rap (e.g. gangsta rap, spoken word), as well as the international distillation of rap such as Grime (London), Hip Life (Ghana), Hyphy (USA), Kuduro (Angola) and Kwaito (SAfrica).
BASS (British Art and Street Sounds) Festival