Connor, Malik, Ben, and Adriana.
Project Blowed is an open-mic workshop. Project Blowed is hosted by Kaos Network and is the longest running hip hop open mic that I have found through online resources. It was started in 1994 by Aceyalone and some of his crew. It is held every Thursday night at 43rd place and Leimert Blvd. The Leimert Park workshop is the longest running open-mic for Hip-Hop in the world. Some consider Leimert Park the center of African-American Arts in the Los Angeles scene. Leimert Park also offers many bustling blues and jazz clubs as well as hip hop halls and venues. That’s not all Leimert Park offers, they also offer spoken word poetry readings, and other dramatic type performances.
Aceyalone,
Aceyalone is a cofounder of Project Blowed. He pioneered the idea of a safe environment for young aspiring rappers and artists to perform and learn amongst each other. Project Blowed originally started at the Good Life Cafe and spread to several other locations after that.
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Police man saw problems with the project since they considered them a place to be noise and absurd. They thought the youth who would go and express themselves were just there to rebel against society and against those in power. The cops also tried to shut them down supposable because of safety hazard since many would go there to hear what others had to say. Many understood exactly to what the others would sing or speak about. They enjoyed the beats and that were created by themselves. Overall, the cops didn’t enjoy how the youth were being proactive and staying out of trouble; they wanted to act against the youth
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Charletta Johnson, mentioned in our book as a teacher who "developed new ways to communicate with [her] students" (43) and let her children rap in class. It was her form of doing her duty as a teacher in the tough environment she was in; her way of "teaching hope" (43).
The youth are our future and Charletta Johnston realized that.
Here's to our future!
Murs-
Living Legends -
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