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I found these three YouTube videos an hour ago from a short documentary called Getting Up: A Graffiti Documentary. This film is narrated by several famous writers on the culture, drama, and lessons of being a Graff outlaw.
I want you to see evidence where Hip Hop culture shines at its brightest, and how it enlightens a possible future for those who once envisioned tomorrow as a blur. I want you to feel how it made you feel the first time you found Hip Hop kissing you on the cheek with open arms. Do you remember when?
It is that time of year again in the B-Boying global community. Battle Of The Year World Finals 2008 is now upon us in Braunschweig, Germany on October 18! Who will own the crown this year and from which country? You better believe the crown champions never win by luck or by accident.
Mark your calendar on September 26 and 27, Friday and Saturday, for the 2008 DMC World DJ Championship finals in London, England at the Indig02. If you are in the United Kingdom, you already have heard the tickets are sold out by now, but I am sure you know a cousin of a friend’s [...]
To Whom it May Concern at Guerilla Union:
I attended the Rock the Bells festival in Miami on August 2, 2008. I give the event two thumbs way up for its performance line ups, the surprise special guests, the quality of sound and lighting, the great work the roadies conducted between sets, and the participating [...]
It was a family reunion on a long and hot summer day in downtown Miami, Florida. A typical family reunion where you find elders with the peppery white hair all the way down to the little ones entering pre-school. You had people giving hugs and pounds who haven’t seen each other in a very long [...]
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This article is going to be real short. We at Old School Scholar apologize for not updating articles as we have recently. There is no excuse, however we will fill you in that we have been gathering our resources and doing lots of planning for the coming months. Also, we have been making [...]
Thanks to the blog at Write4Gold for this info, we got great but old news for all of Graff-dom! The infamous book that inspired and gave birth to Graff Writers around the world, Subway Art, can be read online! As a matter of fact you can read it right here at the bottom of this article! Subway Art has been available on Issuu.com by member CedricB since February 2008, but you can never stop sharing the love!
We have quite a few prestigious competitions, battles and tournaments worldwide for Hip Hop. For B-Boys we have the grandest tournament, Battle of the Year. For DJ turntablism there is the hard earned DMC World DJ Championships, and for MCs there were many that have come and gone like the historic New Music Seminar. Today, we now have the million dollar prize up for grabs at the brand new World Series of Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia, September 27, 2008.
I am not a big advocate of tagging unless you got a mural and skills to back it up. I believe a tag should be a writer’s signature to his works, but that is just my view point. I guess it is because I see too many taggers hating on another man’s piece when it is dope.
