For well over 12 years now, I have organized and preserved Hiphop campaigns, Hiphop conferences, Hiphop studies, Hiphop classes, Hiphop concerts, Hiphop exhibits, Hiphop panels, Hiphop radio shows, Hiphop websites, Hiphop video shows and Hiphoppas themselves! Since 1996, I have been an active member and supporter of The Temple Of Hiphop; Hiphop's preservation society whose mission is the very preservation and empowerment of Hiphoppas themselves. Hiphop's consciousness and its modern presentation is almost 40 years old; and were it to be personified, I would liken it to an adult woman or man, slightly grey but with an organic, street-wise, savy, advanced, intellectual, youthful mind, body and spirit. Not just on the surface, but deep down to the core this creative consciousness, this alternative behavior and "mind-set" has undoubtedly learned and been developed from its unique experiences in life. As a result, it multiplied exponentially and constructed and manifested a way, where there was no way. By and large, this way of life has transformed subjects, objects and circumstances and produced prosperity and life, where there was nothing but self destruction and death! Much like many of us in our earlier stages of life, we too were once ostricized, isolated and outcast because we did not fit in with what society dictated and deemed acceptable. However, for those who follow their hearts and refuse to give up on what we believe in, have faith in and where we come from; we saw that there was another way! A better way! So with maturity, adversity and discipline we grew to overstand our circumstances and have become the very strategies to our own successes. In 2007, never before is this Hip Hop mission more necessary, more essential and above all more possible. For both young and old, parent and child, rich and poor, conscious and unaware, revolutionary and loyalist, national and International, Hiphoppas by the droves are seeking a better way to do what we do best...

 

SURVIVE, ADAPT AND OVERCOME!