Latest In Hip Hop Innovation & Inspiration
Upcoming events & conferences, Hip Hop news that isn't about dumb sh*t and Manny's new music picks!
🗽 Thanks NYC! It was great to DJ and sit on a panel and just hang out with you again!
🍑 Now I’m back in my ATL-area HQ to once again serve as your guide to the interdisciplinary, innovative and inspirational Hip Hop universe.
🏆 But also LET’S GO KNICKS! 🏀🔵
OK, first, ICYMI, a new Hip Hop Can Save America! podcast drop: It’s the audio version of my essay from last newsletter, imploring folks who want “more balance” in Hip Hop to not sit around waiting until "the mainstream” comes to the rescue. (Hint: It won’t.)
🙏 TWO (and a half) QUICK CALLS TO ACTION and then on some Hip Hop news and events that aren’t about dumb sh*t, plus a new segment where I share some dope new music releases you might not be aware of!
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📰 HIP HOP NEWS THAT ISN’T ABOUT DUMB SH*T
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🕊️ Organized Noize producer Rico Wade gave Atlanta its voice and amplified it with a capital A: Charismatic Southern hip-hop pioneer who discovered Outkast and gave Future his start died at age 52
🕊️ Mister Cee, Pioneering Brooklyn D.J., Dies at 57: Born Calvin Lebrun, Mister Cee was a pioneer in New York City’s hip-hop scene and helped boost the career of the Notorious B.I.G.
🕊️ RIP Audra “DJ Reality” Murrell - Homegoing (Fla.) | GoFundMe
🕊️ Durham hip hop artist, UNC Chapel Hill teacher Josh 'Rowdy' Rowsey dies
📖 Biography on the life and career of MF DOOM set for release this year
🤖 Hip Hop Museum unveils AI program to help aspiring artists
🎶 “La-Di-Da-Di” and “Ready To Die” enter the Library of Congress
📺 Jeezy and Common Talk Rap’s Political Evolution in ‘Hip-Hop and the White House’ Documentary Trailer
🏫 At the Margins: Educating with Hip Hop and Art: Two exhibits at George Washington University show hip-hop culture and art as education.
🗣️ RECAP: Hip Hop at 50: In Conversation with Lupe Fiasco and Joshua Bennett
👑 Black Thought crowned 2024 Rap Laureate by Words, Beats and Life
📷 A Harlem hip-hop photo exhibition comes to NYC City Hall
🏆 America’s First Olympic Breakdancer Is Ready to Take Gold
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📅 UPCOMING DOPE & INTERDISCIPLINARY HIP HOP EVENTS
April 23-25 [Cal Poly Humboldt]: 11th Annual Hip Hop Conference
April 26 [NYC]: Celebrating 40 Years of Video Music Box, honoring VJ Ralph McDaniels
April 27 [Brockton, MA]: 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Symposium at Massasoit Community College
May 3-4 [Harvard]: 8th Annual Can’t Stop Hip Hop Education Conference
May 4 [NYC]: The 2024 Peace & Justice Youth Conference is a youth led-adult supported, in person conference for NYC based youth ages 11-21 (middle school, high school and college).
May 8 [CalState Northridge]: CSUN C.I.P.H.E.R. presents The Cipher Symposium featuring Crazy Legs and other guests
May 23 [NYC]: Empowerment vs. Exploitation in Hip-Hop: Confronting Misogynoir - “Join us in this critical conversation on the role of Hip-Hop in shaping perceptions and realities of Black women's lives.”
May 23-26 [Cork, Ireland]: European HipHop Studies 7.0 - DROPPIN’ SCIENCE (FUN FACT: I’m presenting here!)
June 22, NYC: #HipHopEd Conference (Call for Proposals is open!)
Oct. 11-12 [Chattanooga]: Chattanooga Hip Hop Summit
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🆕 MANNY’S PICKS OF THE WEEK
There are plenty of places to find out about new music, but I’ll give a few picks here and there to help the cause. This week, a few new album releases.
Unless otherwise noted, all links will be for Spotify.
Silent Knight - Restoration Vol. 3 [PURCHASE ON BANDCAMP] [LISTEN ON SPOTIFY] [LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC]
Seafood Sam - Standing on Giant Shoulders
Cavalier - Different Type Time
Mozzy - CHILDREN OF THE SLUMS
🆕 PATRON PICKS!! (VIP LEVEL & HIGHER PATRONS)
[ANDREW WANG] Gangrene (Alchemist + Oh No) - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
[AUSTIN R.] MC Picket Fence - Space God
AND SOME VIDEOS TOO, WHY NOT…
Nas - Define My Name ft DJ Premier
LUPE FIASCO - Indio
Please help me guide us through the interdisciplinary, innovative and inspirational Hip Hop universe. Thank you. 🙏 —MF