Hip Hop Congress

Weekly Update o3.18.o5

NEW CHAPTER: BELOIT:
We want to welcome Barry who has started our 27th chapter of the Hip Hop Congress, and the first in Wisconsin at Beloit College. They have a great event in one month. Check out details here: http://www.soniaandmatt.com/cypherstyles. To contact them, email beloit@hiphopcongress.com

Welcome, Beloit!

MESSAGE FROM THE BELOIT CHAPTERHEAD:
Hip-Hop Congress,

What’s cracking brothers and sisters? Beloit College is thrilled to be your 27th and newest Chapter and I just wanted to formally introduce myself and send out a big whats up to the community. My name is Barry Rabkin, I founded the Beloit College Breakdancing club in 2002 and our club is all about getting involved with our hip-hop community, especially in the midwest since we’re located right between chicago, madison and milwaukee.

In the summer I’ll be in my hometown Pittsburgh so if anyone lives near there and wants to chill or needs support organizing any events come talk to me. As Jordan was kind enough to mention, we’re throwing a huge completely free intercollegiate all day hip-hop battle at our school Saturday, April 16th. We’ll have nice cash prizes for the top competing hip-hop talent in the area, MC’s, Poppers, 3 person Break Crews and Artists. We’ll have BroDJ, John Swan and Kid CutUp, some of the best hip-hop dj’s in the area spinning for us and It’ll definitely be an event to remember and a great chance for us all to get to know each other. Check out http://www.cypherstyles.com for all the details and please spread the word and website to any friends, hip-hop performers or connections you have in the Midwest area who might be interested in it. Our flood arena can hold 2300+ and we’re all about trying to pack the place with screaming hip-hop lovers. If you have access color printer and want to help out, it would be great if you could print out some copies of our flyer (from the FAQ questions section of our above event website) and put them up in your area in some high traffic spots.

Anyway, really I just wanted to introduce myself and my club to you all. Since I know most of you have never heard of Beloit, we’re a little but very lively liberal arts college right between chicago, madison and milwaukee and near rockford and janesville. We’re thrilled to be involved, thanks to Jordan and Amer for bringing us in and to all the people who have already sent us warm greetings. Much love to all of you, I speak for our whole club when I say that we’re looking forward to a long, fun, eventful future together, peaceout everybody.

-Barry Rabkin
The 27th Chapter of the Hip-Hop Congress, Beloit College

THE JACK ARTIST:
HHC artist The Jacka has released his second album, The Jack Artist. It has national distribution and should be in Towers, Best Buys and Sam Goody’s across the country. Check him out here: www.thejacka.com. It is a little more street oriented than you may be accustomed to, but the Jacka is going to do a lot to help our streets. In his own words:

“Not only am I talking about certain things that people are living and going through everyday but I’m speaking on ways they can change. So it isn’t like I am leading them into the fire. You got to really be…they say “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”; you got to be “a sheep in wolves clothing” in order to talk to people from the streets. You got to be them…you got to live just like them and let them see another side of you so they’ll know that ain’t the only thing that you do. I mean you may not change everybody but a few people will.”

The music is dope and he’s starting to get a great buzz. Check him out and pick up a copy!

SHAMAKO FREESTYLES FOR 30 MINUTES:
Every time I listen to this, I am completely convinced I have never heard anything like it. And I think he can do better. But this works for now. 30 Minutes STRAIGHT of freestyles from Shamako Noble. DJ Roosevelt Treasurechest throws a variety of beats at him over the course of the half hour which was broadcast on WIUS in Bloomington, Indiana. Download the MP3, listen to it daily, study it, pass it around: www.goldenmeanmusic.com/shamako/shamako30.mp3.

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