Hip Hop Congress

It’s been awhile. I’ve been marinating. How have you been doing?

MINNESOTA SUMMIT:
The Hip Hop Congress will host its First Ever Minnesota Summit: “Politics, Globalization and the Hip Hop Generation” from Friday, February 17th through Sunday February 19th, 2006.

Activities will feature a major concert featuring renowned Hip Hop artists and will include workshops, panels and discussion on prominent domestic and world issues related to Hip Hop, Race, Politics, HIV/AIDS and Globalization. Each will feature prominent artists including, Proof from the World-famous group D12, Hip Hop Activists M-1 of Dead Prez, The Bedouin and many more. There will also be workshops teaching Graffiti Art, Breakdancing, DJ’ing, and MC’ing. Youth organizing will be facilitated by People Escaping Poverty Project (P.E.P.P.) of Moorhead.

For more information, registration materials, and more hit up our website: www.hiphopcongress.com OR HHC extraordinaire, Amer at amer@hiphopcongress.com

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
6th Annual, IU Hip Hop Awareness Festival

Many people are still talking about last year’s awareness festival. The Afeni Shakur Lecture, the Mac Lethal Show, the infamous battle between Shamako and Naunsense and the Brother Ali performance, but that was last year…

This year’s Hip Hop Awareness festival promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Just to get you all salivating, here’s just some of what you can expect:

April 9-15
Good Weather!
Saul Williams
Sadat X
Wordsworth
Percee P
X-Games Show
Poetry Slam
Etc.

As more details are confirmed we will make sure you get them, in the mean time, do yourself a favor and block out April 9-15 in your planner, crack open a magnum and write “IU HIP HOP CONGRESS, HIP HOP AWARENESS FESTIVAL”

TEXAS STATE:
On January 15 our eboard had an all day retreat. We all discussed upcoming goals for the new year. We had a great time discussing how as officers we will be able to improve on the chapter. In the upcoming week we will be focused on recruiting new members for the new semester. We plan on doing promos in the quad area.

CAL STATE LA:
CSULA HipHop Congress Presents: Bring Your Skills: U.N.I.T.Y. (a open mic/hiphop/freestyle/creative showcase)
5151 State University Drive…the event will be at the CSULA Phase 2 Housing Lounge
Time: This Thursday 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm, January 26th
Featured Artists: Live Radio and Epsilon Project

if anyone needs any other info call me at: (323) 559-5428…and ask for Laquan. if anyone needs a map of the school to find where the event will then hit up…www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm

Free Admission, Free Food, Free Drinks.

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do Hip-Hop Congress? Hope ya’ll had a good x-mas and new year’s. Back 2 basics we starting another semester fresh into the 2006. We bout to have a meeting on Tuesday to go over the meeting times for this semester and go over a schedule so everyone’s on point with the new semester. I think that’s it mang for our chapter. holla at ya’ll next week. one.

WILLAMETTE:
We had our first meeting of the semester and some new people showed up. We are still hovering around 9 active members in meetings, with 45 on list serve, but we are going to implement recruiting efforts to get our active members over ten to a steady 15 at meetings. Our new hoodies are in, and are much better. I have not taken a picture of someone in one yet, but members have been sporting’ em around campus, and people are liking them. They are $30 for members, and $35 for non members (this includes people in other states so that it can cover shipping).

For our Elements Show this semester, we have been in negotiation with the QN5 tour to make a tour stop at Willamette while they are on the West coast. This would be huge! Plenty of work is still to come, and money to be raised so that we can still have cash prizes for our MC battles and Bboy battles. We are going to make this one big!

Tristan Lockhart, who is the Campus Events Chair, is working on getting funds for a Krumping vs. Breakdancing battle here in Oregon. He is an avid krumper and knows some of the founders down in South Central. He has lots of work left on this, we’ll keep you posted. We might try to find a venue in Portland to make this happen, it would be better received there.

A journalist form the University of Oregon magazine will be coming to our next meeting and interviewing myself and possibly Nathan Brannon our Community Chair on many current subjects and the HHC stance on them. This is good exposure for the HHC, as the UofO down the road has over 20,000 students and this could become a chance to develop another Oregon Chapter.

And that is all for now! Pictures and contact info to be sent out shorty regarding the new HHC hoodies.

Peace,
A

USC:
What up?! Happy New Year’s everyone! This semester the USC Chapter plans to do it big with some quality hip hop workshops. Our first will be in early February and is an Emcee workshop with HHC artist Rahman Jamaal at our new workshop venue, Ground Zero, a local coffee shop on University Park Campus. We’re also currently working on turntablism and break dancing workshops for later in the semester so stay tuned. Peace.

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress Update Monkey

“Everything here is eatable. I’m eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism and it is frowned upon in most societies.” — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

It’s been awhile. I’ve been marinating. How have you been doing?

MINNESOTA SUMMIT:
The Hip Hop Congress will host its First Ever Minnesota Summit: “Politics, Globalization and the Hip Hop Generation” from Friday, February 17th through Sunday February 19th, 2006.

Activities will feature a major concert featuring renowned Hip Hop artists and will include workshops, panels and discussion on prominent domestic and world issues related to Hip Hop, Race, Politics, HIV/AIDS and Globalization. Each will feature prominent artists including, Proof from the World-famous group D12, Hip Hop Activists M-1 of Dead Prez, The Bedouin and many more. There will also be workshops teaching Graffiti Art, Breakdancing, DJ’ing, and MC’ing. Youth organizing will be facilitated by People Escaping Poverty Project (P.E.P.P.) of Moorhead.

For more information, registration materials, and more hit up our website: www.hiphopcongress.com OR HHC extraordinaire, Amer at amer@hiphopcongress.com

INDIANA UNIVERSITY:
6th Annual, IU Hip Hop Awareness Festival

Many people are still talking about last year’s awareness festival. The Afeni Shakur Lecture, the Mac Lethal Show, the infamous battle between Shamako and Naunsense and the Brother Ali performance, but that was last year…

This year’s Hip Hop Awareness festival promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Just to get you all salivating, here’s just some of what you can expect:

April 9-15
Good Weather!
Saul Williams
Sadat X
Wordsworth
Percee P
X-Games Show
Poetry Slam
Etc.

As more details are confirmed we will make sure you get them, in the mean time, do yourself a favor and block out April 9-15 in your planner, crack open a magnum and write “IU HIP HOP CONGRESS, HIP HOP AWARENESS FESTIVAL”

TEXAS STATE:
On January 15 our eboard had an all day retreat. We all discussed upcoming goals for the new year. We had a great time discussing how as officers we will be able to improve on the chapter. In the upcoming week we will be focused on recruiting new members for the new semester. We plan on doing promos in the quad area.

CAL STATE LA:
CSULA HipHop Congress Presents: Bring Your Skills: U.N.I.T.Y. (a open mic/hiphop/freestyle/creative showcase)
5151 State University Drive…the event will be at the CSULA Phase 2 Housing Lounge
Time: This Thursday 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm, January 26th
Featured Artists: Live Radio and Epsilon Project

if anyone needs any other info call me at: (323) 559-5428…and ask for Laquan. if anyone needs a map of the school to find where the event will then hit up…www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm

Free Admission, Free Food, Free Drinks.

SAN JOSE STATE:
What it do Hip-Hop Congress? Hope ya’ll had a good x-mas and new year’s. Back 2 basics we starting another semester fresh into the 2006. We bout to have a meeting on Tuesday to go over the meeting times for this semester and go over a schedule so everyone’s on point with the new semester. I think that’s it mang for our chapter. holla at ya’ll next week. one.

WILLAMETTE:
We had our first meeting of the semester and some new people showed up. We are still hovering around 9 active members in meetings, with 45 on list serve, but we are going to implement recruiting efforts to get our active members over ten to a steady 15 at meetings. Our new hoodies are in, and are much better. I have not taken a picture of someone in one yet, but members have been sporting’ em around campus, and people are liking them. They are $30 for members, and $35 for non members (this includes people in other states so that it can cover shipping).

For our Elements Show this semester, we have been in negotiation with the QN5 tour to make a tour stop at Willamette while they are on the West coast. This would be huge! Plenty of work is still to come, and money to be raised so that we can still have cash prizes for our MC battles and Bboy battles. We are going to make this one big!

Tristan Lockhart, who is the Campus Events Chair, is working on getting funds for a Krumping vs. Breakdancing battle here in Oregon. He is an avid krumper and knows some of the founders down in South Central. He has lots of work left on this, we’ll keep you posted. We might try to find a venue in Portland to make this happen, it would be better received there.

A journalist form the University of Oregon magazine will be coming to our next meeting and interviewing myself and possibly Nathan Brannon our Community Chair on many current subjects and the HHC stance on them. This is good exposure for the HHC, as the UofO down the road has over 20,000 students and this could become a chance to develop another Oregon Chapter.

And that is all for now! Pictures and contact info to be sent out shorty regarding the new HHC hoodies.

Peace,
A

USC:
What up?! Happy New Year’s everyone! This semester the USC Chapter plans to do it big with some quality hip hop workshops. Our first will be in early February and is an Emcee workshop with HHC artist Rahman Jamaal at our new workshop venue, Ground Zero, a local coffee shop on University Park Campus. We’re also currently working on turntablism and break dancing workshops for later in the semester so stay tuned. Peace.

Peace and Love,
Ron Gubitz
Hip Hop Congress Update Monkey

“Everything here is eatable. I’m eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism and it is frowned upon in most societies.” — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory