I’m still high off of HIP HOP HOWL! we made history this Saturday at Tompkins Sq. Park & Bowery Poetry Club! This is the first time in the history of the famous lower east side music and art festival HOWL! that a hip hop showcase was able to grace the main-stage! Grace is being polite- ROCKED is more like it- DESTROYED is fitting- the energy was through the roof! My co-presenter CROSBY, who is the executive director of HIP HOP HOWL! made this historic event possible with all his hard work, designing all graphics, producing 2 shows and organizing over 25 artists. It is a pleasure to work along side Crosby, and I am honored to be apart of the HIP HOP HOWL! organization which consists of Crosby, Marguerite Van Cook, Wesley Clouden of Nappie Corp, Fiona Bloom of the Bloom Effect, Circa *95 , Demian Faulkner, and I . We’re already planning for SXSW 2010, which is sure to be another historic event!
A HUGE THANK YOU to all the amazing artists and sponsors that were apart of this event! And to Marguerite Van Cook, the HOWL! festival director who made this event possible. For us it’s all about bringing talent together, to inspire one another- a community of rising stars who shine so bright together, our collective talent has unlimited potential.
What is HIP HOP HOWL! ? We are media content network, creating a platform to build community for innovative hip hop influenced artists and beyond. We produce massive live mixtape showcase’s featuring the hottest up and coming artists in the country. We are New York City based, and rapidly expanding.
To hear the latest addition to the HIP HOP HOWL! mixtape catalog:
GO TO WWW.HIPHOPHOWL.COM TO DOWNLOAD “A NY-MINUTE VOL.2 ” THE MIXTAPE! FREE! MIXED BY DJ.VINYL RICHIE. WWW.HIPHOPHOWL.COM
To a packed house over 20 M.C’s from Hip Hop HOWL! along with special surprise guests, freestyled over DJ Vinyl Richie spinning fire- for 2 hours! YES, really 2 HOURS STRAIGHT! The freestyle could not be stopped, I’ve never seen anything like it before! It was absolutely incredible!! Sciryls brought up Charles Hamilton, an old friend of ours who rocked out the entire time. People can say what they want about the kid, at the end of the day he’s a someone who loves music more than anyone I know. It was good to jam with him like the good ole’ days on street corners after Urban Word slams. Check out the photos from BOWERY POETRY CLUB below!
All photos by Demian J Faulkner
(please credit Demian on all photos if you want to post these else where, thank you)
Demian is also a great designer check him out at: faulknerdesigns.com
For more photos check out the flicker album:
After the show everyone kept freestyling on the street corner, we could not be stopped. Be on the look out for a collabo from Joya Bravo and I, it’s going to be HOT- she is hands down one of my favorite artists in NYC right now, we’re going to go to town on this track and show’em who runs this fine city : )
Check out these videos courtesy of Fresh Industries, they have great photos up from the day time show at: fresh-industries.com
JOYA BRAVO “Superstar”(track 22 on the mixtape) Live on the HOWL! Mainstage:
SPILLS ( track 21 on the mixtape)
full HIP HOP HOWL! video coverage coming soon on HIPHOPHOWL.com
Last but certainly not least SPREAD THE WORD I’ll be rocking with DJ.VINYL RICHIE & CROSBY for my DMV debut in Rockville MD this Friday night- if you know anyone in that area please tell them about the show!! We’ll be rocking with my bassist Sean Lewis, on the midi bass recreating all my tracks live- it’s going to be off the hook!
until next week!
positive thoughts-positive action-lets keep creating our reality!
xo
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