Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Hip-Hop Appreciation Week

Next week is Hip-Hop Appreciation Week. Check here for events jumping off around the country.

I’ll be up in New York doing some Hip-Hop Aesthetics Panels. Check here for the public event in the Bronx.

For my money though, Chicago will be the hotspot next week. Herc, Bam, Theodore, Immortal Technique, not to mention the amazing local people: University of Hip-Hop, Kevin Coval, Cashus D, Casper, the list is just getting started. Peep the events, courtesy UAAM:

||Pre HHAW event||:

Kuumba Lynx presents
El Barrio Clocks, Our Beatz, N Rhymez: Phase III
an interdisciplinary arts production
Thursday, May 12 – 10am
Friday, May 13 – 10am and 7pm
Saturday, May 14 – 1pm and 6pm

Truman College
1145 W. Wilson
Novar Hall Theater, Rm. 3426
$12/$5 school matinees
kuumbalynx@yahoo.com
Special Discount with HHAW flyer!

||SUNDAY MAY 15th, 2005||

Hip Hop Appreciation Week Kick Off
@ University of Hip Hop
6400 S. Kedzie
FREE and ALL AGES
3pm – 7pm

||MONDAY May 16th, 2005||

Freedom Workshop
@ University of Hip Hop
6400 S. Kedzie
FREE and ALL AGES
4:30pm – 7pm

Mental Graffiti
(open mic)
@ Funky Buddah Lounge
728 W. Grand
21+, $5
7:30pm doors, 8pm show

||TUESDAY May 17th, 2005||

Connect Force Breakin Session
@ Alternatives – 4730 N Sheridan
FREE and ALL AGES
4pm – 7pm

Young Chicago Authors
Workshop and Open Mic
FREE and ALL AGES
Workshop – 6pm, Open Mic – 7pm

HIP HOP PRESERVATION NIGHT
featuring HIP HOP HONORS
@ HOT HOUSE
31 E. Balbo
9pm SHARP, $5, 21+
featuring – Griot Baba Biko, 500 Nations,
Bad News Jones, Kevin Coval, and more
LIVE ART… OPEN FLOOR for B-Boys and B-Girls

||WEDNESDAY May 18th, 2005||

Soul Expansion Lounge
Youth Workshop w/ Sensei of Soul
@ New Approach Health Foods
641 E. 47th
FREE and ALL AGES
4pm – 6pm

Soul Expansion Lounge
(Open Mic)
Hosted by Transend and Sensei of Soul
w/ Spoken
@ New Approach Health Foods
641 E. 47th
FREE and ALL AGES
7pm – 10pm

The Chicago Drop
(Live Hip Hop Bands)
@ The Note
1565 N. Milwaukee
21+, $5
10pm – 4am

||THURSDAY MAY 19th, 2005||

Connect Force and Kuumba Lynx present
Elemental Workshops
@ Alternatives – 4730 N. Sheridan
FREE and ALL AGES
4pm – 7pm

Youth Summit
Feat. Lord Cahsus D (Universal Zulu Nation),
and Casper (Chicago Graffiti Artist)
@ Jones College Prep HS
606 S. State St.
$4, ALL AGES
6pm – 8:30pm

Cypher Sessions
(poetry)
@ Borders (Hyde Park)
1539 E. 53rd
FREE and ALL AGES
7:30pm – 10:30pm

Universal Zulu Nation presents
Cosmic Slop feat.
GRAND WIZARD THEODORE
“Father of the Scratch”
@ Hot House – 31 E. Balbo
$15, 21+
10pm – 2am

||Friday May 20th, 2005||

Unsigned Coop Youth Program
Featuring Soul Selectas, Power 92
@7915 S. Exchange
FREE and ALL AGES
4pm – 6pm

Conscious Music Summit
@ Betty Shabazz School
7823 S Ellis
FREE and ALL AGES
7pm – 10pm

||Saturday, May 21st, 2005||

Sneaker Skills
Outdoor B-Boy Battle
@ Logan Square Eagle
(Blue Line stop @ Logan Square)
FREE and ALL AGES
judged by audience reaction
12pm – 4pm

All City Writers Meeting
@ The Writers Bench
Logan Square Eagle
2pm

Conscious Music Summit
@ Betty Shabazz School
Featuring workshops
AND Meeting of the Minds
(w/ KOOL HERC
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE)
7823 S Ellis
FREE and ALL AGES
1pm – 5pm: Workshops
5pm – 8pm: Meeting of the Minds

We will provide transportation for some who want to go from Sneaker Skills to the Conscious Music Summit

ONE LUV Productions
After Set @ Lava Lounge
859 N Damen
Feat. Intel, Genghis Won, Lar1, Maker
KID CUT UP and WHY B
FREE, 21+, 10pm

||Sunday, May 22, 2005||

Magic Seven
7 Lessons, 7 Generations, 7 Continents
A Family Hip Hop Event
@ University of Chicago Reynold’s Club
5700 S. University (SW Corner)
Workshops, performances, and more
Featuring: Snyergy, Brickheadz and more
FREE and ALL AGES
2pm – 6pm

Conscious Music Summit
@ Betty Shabazz School
7823 S Ellis
FREE and ALL AGES
1pm

Hip Hop Appreciation Week Wrap Up Jam
Featuring:
Immortal Technique
and special guest artists!
@ Subterranean – 2011 W. North Ave.
$15 and 21+
9pm – doors
(limited capacity)

Organized and/or Supported by:
Apollo Project, Hip Hop Congress, Urban Art in Action Movement, Fly Paper, Universal Zulu Nation, Temple of Hip Hop, University of Hip Hop, Synergy, Hip Hop Political Convention, Connect Force, Young Chicago Authors, Kuumba Lynx and the general Hip Hop CommUNITY of Chicago

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

The Huffington Post Is Up

Arianna’s new experiment in lefty meta-blogging is up. I’m rooting for it. Alternatives are always good if they are alternatives.

But a BIG warning: it is white, white, white, white, white and male and well over 40-something.

I expected a lot more content than a retread of the tired old Farrakhan debate. In brief: Russell Simmons takes on the ADL’s Abe Foxman over the Millions More Movement and somebody named Seth Greenland takes Foxman’s side. It’s all very 80s.

Arianna, please. Right now, the Post is just looking like the same old story.

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Monday, May 9th, 2005

Jay Smooth Talks To Kim Osorio

Mad late to the game on this, but some of you may not have yet peeped this. Once again, Jay Smooth is on the story.

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Monday, May 9th, 2005

Vlad’s Volga


“But Mr. President, it is left only in Russia.”
“Not while I’m behind the wheel. I’m turning yall right, and yall gon like it. Now who’s your daddy? Say my name, Vladdy, say it!”

(This is yet another installation in our ongoing Whips and Dips series.)

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Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Hip-Hop Aesthetics

Just got back from Santa Barbara and Oxnard. A big shoutout to the fam at UCSB, especially Jonathan Kim at KCSB, Luniya Msuku at the MCC, DJ Soulspeak, Kofi, Jim, Professor Flacks, Elizabeth and Maricela. Much love, much appreciation.

Strength and power to the youths of South Oxnard, who are dealing with a lockdown by police and administrators at Channel Islands High this week, and to all those fighting the Oxnard gang injunction personally and collectively. (More info here.) Big shout to the folks at the KEYS program, and to Mr. Terrazas at CI High, but especially Michael Shuman and Tomas Hernandez. Can’t stop won’t stop.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be hosting discussions around hip-hop and aesthetics. Come check out the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, including an illuminating discussion on Hip-Hop in Theater and Performance on Saturday with Traci Bartlow, Javier Reyes, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and Kamilah Forbes.

(Also, the same day…a Berkeley tradition: the ninth annual Hip-Hop In The Park, this year featuring the Procussions and The Frontline, whose new version of Who R U–entitled Now U Know–is out Tuesday!)

And on May 18, at the Bronx Museum, the topic will be Hip-Hop In Post-Millennial Visual Arts, and the moderator will be BXMA Senior Curator Lydia Yee.

Fall through!

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