Hip Hop Congress

IU AWARENESS FESTIVAL: (Everyone is invited!!!!)

• YO THE 5th Annual Awareness Festival at Indiana University is FEB. 22 through the 26. I’ll let the events speak for themselves!
• Feb. 22 - Movie Screening: Freestyle - The Art of Rhyme
• Feb. 23 - Lecture by AFENI SHAKUR AND JASMINE GUY
  Feb. 24 - Poetry Slam w/ $50 prize plus the opportunity to open for Def Poets coming in April to IU
• Feb. 25 - Workshops by all your favorite steering members plus a few surprises guests. Performances by Mac Lethal, Shamako Noble, Honors English, and Halfblown w/ 2Scoops Malone. House party!
• Feb. 26 - Workshops, $1000 Bboy Battle, $500 MC Battle, Performance by BROTHER ALI. After party features Verseatile, plus Tom Slick and DJ Sleeper on the 1s and 2s.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE (but the after party Saturday $1adm.)

Yo if other chapters are interested in coming please hit me up as I can find you all some free housing. If you want to enter any of the battles please email me back quickly. The bboy battle is pre-reg, the MC battle already has 8 spots taken up.

There are more event details to be announced soon!!
Peace
Aaron
812.369.5388

TEXAS STATE:
Texas State Univ. says what up! We are throwing a Freestyle Battle…Feb. 12 at Nephews. The 1st place winner gets $250 and studio time. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the local children’s and women’s shelter. This week da CoNgReSs will organize a street team to do promotion. Holla back…we’re in San Marcos TX.

Mischiff

CAL STATE FULLERTON:
What up Congress? We’ve had a whole month and a half Winter Break to prepare for this upcoming Spring semester and with it finally nearing, we’re ready to let Cal State Fullerton HHC’s presence be known!

We’ve managed to turn some heads by posting flyers across campus and advertising online and have received some inquiries from interested individuals. We also have been given the opportunity to run a recruitment / information booth at Discover Fest: a two-day event to introduce the clubs and organizations of CSUF and was invited by the Pilipino American Student Association to speak at their first meeting, which they estimate will have at least 300 students in attendance. Big ups to UC Irvine for holding a So Cal HHC meet-up! We enjoyed choppin it up with our fellow So Cal Chapters (UCI, USC, CSULA, and UCR) and will gladly extend our hand and our home for future meetings. Peace.

OHIO UNIVERSITY:
Tonight Russell Simmons is hosting a forum here and some of the members of the congress will be taking part in the forum. We are having a Latino’s in Hiphop event on Feb. 11th and we will be bringing down a group called Outerspace from Philly. We are starting to plan our Hiphop awareness week in May. Besides that we are mostly working on fundraisers.

peace,
Tommy

UC IRVINE:
UCI was proud to host the first ever Southern California HHC meet-up. We were joined by USC, CSULA, and our newest chapters, CSUF and UCR. UCI hopes to work more closely with our neighboring chapters in the future.

We are in the process of bringing the hip hop film festival (www.hiphopfilmfesitval.com) to our campus. With the film fest, we hope to reach out to our campus and surrounding community by exposing them to elements of the hip hop culture that are not readily available to the popular culture.

Jeremy

USC:
What up from Hip Hop Congress! Believe dat. Official meetings begin this week. Of course we’ll be in the usual spot in Taper Hall tomorrow,Wednesday, Jan. 26. We’re expecting a large turn out as over 60 people signed up for HHC’s weekly emails here at USC. Aside from going over the logistics of the semester, We’ll be listening to Atmosphere’s latest offering, “Sevenshots.” Also, we’ll be discussing “Russell Simmons is No Answer to the NAACP Woes,” by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist, an article that appeared on DaveyD.com. Starting next Friday, our ever-so-popular and most amazing Freestyle Fridays will kick off in front of Tommy Trojan. The freestyle sessions that have gone on for over a year now have become legendary on campus. So know this. Lots of good things to come this semester.

SAN JOSE STATE:
Our semester is about to begin and back to do more events more Godzilla status. We want to let it be known what HHC is about so we finna have an info night to show peops what we about. We’re planning for a 3-day Local elementations show geared for March and we want to help the Tsunami relief by raising sum skrilla somehow. Well that’s what’s crackin out here in San Ho til next week holla back.

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN:
QUICK NEWS

• Tara Betts Guest-In Residence @ Allen Hall schedule: www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1
• RACIST Hot 97 Skit - In case you haven’t heard..more info here: http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000760.html
• Up A Notch records (the kats who did the “HipHop Rots Your Brain” billboards) are having their show this Friday, Jan 28th @ Nargile. Peep it and see what all the controversy is about!
• UC HipHop will be occupying the Courtyard Cafe This Friday all night. DJing, b-boying and live MCing from Al-iteration, Agent Mos and liMbs. Be there ’round 10ish!
• Old School HipHop Party @ Allen Hall this Saturday, peep it!
• UC HipHop on the web - peep: www.uchiphop.com and join UC Hip Hop Congress on Facebook. We hope to be selling merch. such as t-shirts, CDs and more on our site. So much networking can be done on the messageboards too. MCs and DJs who want gigs, I’m talking to y’all!
• Allen Hall Sessions are starting up again next Sunday!
• We need to set new quad cypher times, everyone’s schedules are diff. from before, so MCs hit me up!

GRINNELL:
Whas up Congress,
We all just got back from break, but the chapter is off to a great start. We have a bunch of things planned for the semester including Brother Ali, Treologic, SLAM Poetry with Kevin Koval from the Chi, and Chicago Beat Box. We will also be hosting a local Open Mic in February just to get our name out to the rest of campus who haven’t heard about this slammin chapter. Besides that, we mosdefinitely plan on hitting up Pella’s 3rd annual Hip-Hop Summit the 25th of February.

Stay Up,
Elena

P.S. Also any of the chapters are invited to these events, especially Loras and Pella since ya’ll be workin it in the cornfields with us.

AT THE RIEKES CENTER FOR HUMAN ENHANCEMENT!!!!!!:
BRUCE GEORGE (www.defpoetryjam.com, www.brucegeorge.com) Co-Founder of Def Poetry Jam comes to share knowledge and poetry along with guest performances by:
National Slam Champion Mike McGee
The Palo Alto
Slam Team
AK Black
Rahman Jamaal
and much more!!!!

With a Poetry Slam of Epic Proportions and prizes!!!!!!! Also, a panel discussion, hosted by ADISA BANJOKO, author of Lyrical Swords (www.lyricalswords.com)

COME AND JOIN US!!!!!
When: 12-3 Panel Discussion
3-6: Poetry Slam
Where: The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement 3455 Edison Way
Please call 650-364-2509 for more information or you can go to
www.riekes.org and www.humanenhancement.net
GET INVOLVED!!!!!!

SOUTH AFRICA AND FRANCE:
Things have really been heating up internationally in the positive sense. We have a commission from Hip Hop Congress France that has been traveling throughout Africa building a solid network of Hip Hop Congress supporters and members. In addition to our presence in South Africa, more specifically Port Elizabeth, we have been building with folks from Camereoon, Niger, Benin and Burkina-Faso.

We’ll keep you updated as our network expands. If you have questions or are curious to find out more, email jordan@hiphopcongress.com.

THE BISHOP SPEAKS:
Adisa Banjoko aka “The Bishop” has always been a great friend to Hip Hop Congress. Check out this article about the connection between Islam and Hip Hop here: http://music.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-01-19/music/close2thaedge.html

Or his blog here: www.lyricalswords.blogspot.com

Congrats to Reverend Yearwood:
Hip Hop Congress would like to congratulate our friend, Reverend Yearwood, as we he was just asked to Co-Chair the National Policy Board of the Progressive Democrats of America. We wish you congratulations and continued success!

The Grafftastic Album:This is a Soundtrack to the IV Element Graff Art section which will be available on CD-Rom and for download. The Graff Art will featured over 400 Flicks of Graff Art that appears around the city of Los Angeles.

What to submit:

1. One Song, Time: 4:30 seconds max (Please send it on a CDR in Wave Data File Format)
2. Artist or Group Name
3. Producer of the Song

Send to:
1312 Group C/O Reali Robinson IV
17830 Sherman Way Suite 176
Reseda, Ca 91335
More info contact: info@ivelement.com
DEADLINE IS: JANUARY 31, 2005
IF YOU SLEEP YOU MISS OUT

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress

“I feel like funkin’ it up” —Rebirth Brass Band