The Beatdown: Hip-Hop vs. the Big 5

Submitted by grassroots on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 7:27pm
Short Description: 

G.A.ME is producing a diagram of the music industry as it relates to Hip-Hop and providing tangible solutions through organizing to free artists from the strangleholds of corporations. Peformance by Sosoon.

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Omowale Adewale
Presenter One Info: 

Omowale Adewale, formerly known as Lawrence James and L. James is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME), an international not-for-profit membership of artists and organizers working around building youth leadership and preventing youth incarceration, developing healthcare access and unionizing and empowering artists in the music and media industries.

Presenter Two Name: 
Sosoon
Presenter Three Name: 
SoSoon
Presenter Three Info: 

Born and raised in Queens New York, SoSoon represents Hip Hop culture in its truest form: the soundtrack to the hard working, thinking person's life.
SoSoon has graced stages across the east coast. Coming a long way from
recording and performing tracks with his former groups Queens Official
and Cataclysm, SoSoon emerged as the self-proclaimed King of the CUNY
performance circuit, rocking at each of its institutions, as well as
NYU, Columbia, Cooper Union, Cornell University, SUNY Old Westbury,
Temple University, among others. He has also performed at Planet
Hollywood, The 40/40 Club, Sputnik, Mocha Lounge, The Nuyorican Poets
Café, Bar 13, Jake’s Saloon, Rikers Island, The Urban Juke Joint,
NYC’s Bahá'í Center, Solomon’s Porch, and was the co-host of Shah
Eschelon’s Poetry Meets Hip-Hop open mic in downtown Brooklyn.

You can find out more about SoSoon at his website www.sosoonmusic.com

Presenter Four Name: 
Jordan Berg
Presenter Four Info: 

Jordan Berg is outreach coordinator for Free Press. He works mainly on public education to broaden the movement. He also supports the planning and implementation of the National Conference for Media Reform. He has presented on creating identity and media policy as well as hip hop and media policy. He has a master from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies.

Presenting organization: 
Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME)