Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | Celebration, Entertainment, Fun, Music Related Links | No Comments

After a miserable day yesterday where nothing was going right, I made
my way to the ‘Fresh ta Death’ party in Woodstock. If you are familiar
with the size of Don Pedro’s in Roodebloem road; you’d be a bit worried
about pulling such crowd of friends into such a tiny place especially
if its a farewell party to a well known person! Controversy leaves the
Cape for USA later this month and hip hop heads, and the crowd that
tags with those people all joined in to bid her farewell.

I’m not feeling so fresh right now and I do feel like I am dying; head
sore, eyes still tired, nausea etc – yes too much alcohol. The party
was SO much fun and I saw all the familiar faces I normally see on
Facebook and bumped into friends that I forgot about (honestly).

The music selectors included:

There will be loads of pictures posted later … pictures up on my Facebook profile only.

Tags: "hip hop", Alcohol, Cape Town, Dancing, DJ, Don Pedro's, Farewell, Fresh ta Death, Fun, Headache, Leisure, Music Related Links, Nausea, Old Skool, Party, Personal, Restaurant, Woodstock

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Celebration, Entertainment, Music Related Links | No Comments

Yeah exactly. That was my first question too; What the hell is hip hop education?

No! It’s not that latest infomercial on TV attempting to sell us an exercise video; its some hip hop movement exercise.

The Faculty of Hip Hop is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town that uses hip hop culture as a tool for youth upliftment and promoting sustainable development in various communities. This organisation that started back in 2003 has been doing positive works in the community for only just five years; Five years and has just registered the organisation under section 21 of the Companies Act 71 of 1973 as a company for public benefit, in youth upliftment and development in a social, artistic and community context.  *Applaud*  Now registered under Hip Hop Education SA (HHESA).

Pictures of the Faculty of Hip Hop on Flickr.

There is some video footage I found on You Tube showing you the type of work done by this organisation. Truly inspiring view. This works in collaboration with Concious Connectionz. In these videos you will learn how the youth open up to these leaders and talk about HIV/AIDS, Substance abuse etc. I quote from one the kids saying: In class the teacher preaches to us and we don’t get a chance to be heard, but with Eazy and Azuhl, we are split up into groups and then we all have a chance to say our say.

I was invited to their launch event held at Artscape on Thursday 16 October 2008. Before this launch, all I knew about this organisation was the fact that they ran the DJ Workshop at Artscape; I took pictures and this can be found on Flickr.  Now that I attended the launch, i learned that they are usually invited to schools to talk to the youth to educate them on particular problem areas within that school.

As I am employed at an academic institution, I was really amused to learn how they came up with the name ‘Faculty of Hip Hop‘ so here it goes:  As they used to run the hip hop show at UCT Radio, they saw Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering and so they also felt like being a Faculty.

Other organisations and people that supported the launch and gave a short speech included: Each One Teach One , Adam Haupt , Concious Connectionz .  These people are all supporting the same or similar cause throughout the world including Germany and the USA.

So now that they are officially registered to serve the public, you are most likely to hear alot more of them and their works in future. Well done to you guys Tyrone, Ricardo, Richard, and the guys from Concious Connectionz Akio and Stephen and Anna and crew from EOTO.

Tags: "hip hop", Artscape, awareness, Concious Flowz, DJ Azuhl, DJ Eazy, Each One Teach One, Education, Faculty of Hip Hop, general, HHESA, Hip Hop Education South Africa, organisation