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NIU – Hip Hop Congress promotes hip-hop as culture, not just genre
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By JOHN REYNOLDS

Music means a lot to most people, but to fans of hip-hop, it’s a way of life.

Tonight the Hip-Hop Congress of NIU will be having a “basement sesh” in the Lincoln Hall basement.

Starting at 7 p.m., Lincoln Hall will be bumpin’ with the beats of NIU alumni DJ Neeks and the freestyle raps of NIU’s finest and fastest voices.

“What we’re trying to do is host a hang out for anyone and everyone that’s into hip hop,” said Adam Hooczko, current Hip Hop Congress president. “Here at NIU, underground hip hop is hard to find and we just want to bring it to as many people as we can.”

The session will also feature the NIU Groundhog Breakdance Crew, Hooczko said.

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Hip Hop Congress Teams up with Paris, Talib and Dead Prez for tour.

Paris, Talib Kweli, dead prez and others on 2009’s Biggest Hip-Hop Tour

San Francisco, CA – Rapper/activist Paris’ Guerrilla Funk Touring and Promotions, LLC officially launches this year’s biggest hip-hop concert series, the Hard Truth Soldiers Tour 2009, on May 1st in Eureka, CA.

Boasting an impressive 45-city schedule, the tour is not only noteworthy for its scope, but for its lineup of today’s most focused and socially aware hardcore hip-hop talent – talent which includes Paris, dead prez, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Kam, Pete Rock, Planet Asia, T-K.A.S.H., The Conscious Daughters, Uno the Prophet, Jasiri X, NYOil, Sellassie and guest performers in select cities.

The tour – which promises to be an annual concert series – blends seasoned talent with up and coming young lions fierce in their commitment to quality music, the importance of independent media, and the ongoing fight for social justice.

“The idea here is to provide a platform for artists to be seen and heard who have important voices that have been marginalized,” says Guerrilla Funk CEO Paris. “All too often certain segments of hip-hop are focused on by the mainstream that don’t accurately or adequately reflect us or our communities. This is a perfect way to counteract that, and to provide balance to an art form that has become increasingly corporatized and diluted for mass consumption.”

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Sacramento Hip-Hop Congress Awareness Festival

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Imagine This:

Laws that work for some, agencies that help to perpetuate these laws and judges that  more often then not rule on the side of these laws forcing families & seniors out into the street on a daily basis.

Ordinances that aren’t enforced, law breakers that aren’t arrested for breaking the law because the law that applies for the people, does not apply to the people in tenant town.

Imagine feeling stalked in you own home 5 days a week at any given hour. Imagine living in a house, room, hotel, car, where the doors don’t shut tightly, the windows don’t close and the heater doesn’t work. The water doesn’t get hot, ever.

Imagine an extortionist taking your money that you will pay, or you will not have a place to live. And then imagine a government that establishes an agency that punishes you for allowing yourself to be extorted to have housing for yourself and your children,  and agency that says “How dare you.”

Imagine an employer who pays himself and his board members, takes several vacations every year , gets a new car every year , another house , every 5 years, sends his wife off to the spa regularly and his kids to private school.

Imagine his employee working 12 hour days to get the money to pay for shoes, housing, gas, food and losing both his job and his housing all in the same week.

Now, ….. you’re ready to take a stroll through tenant town:

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