This is with a lot of interest that the International Underground Rap & Hip Hop connxion discovered this great album featuring Julie AnnJewelz an artist that we do appreciate a lot and whose work we like to follow.. so thanks to her for the discovery and much respect for the great work! <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s 2017 Happy Birthday Krip-Hop Nation! On our tenth anniversary, Krip-Hop Nation has grown and pushed itself by searching for more women with disabilities, like Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchhair Sports Camp, Toni Hickman and Annjewelz, collaborating with DIP-HOP, Deaf Hip-Hop artists like Pinz-D and going deeper with our relationships with non-disabled Hip-Hop artists who have supported Krip-Hop from the beginning like C.R.I.$.I.$. from Zambia, Africa, Latino Hip-Hop Bay Area group, Brown Buf-falo, Wonder Mike from Sugar Hill Gang and more. This CD has twenty-three songs some have been on Krip-Hop CDs but many are new members of Krip-Hop Nation or first time to be on a Krip-Hop project. We also have hottest DJs from Italy to the California, USA and the legendary DMC from Run-DMC! As we all know Hip-Hop stripped down is poetry so this why we include Black Deaf poet, Joy Elan<\/p>\n
I like to give thanks to DJ Quad of 5th Battalion in LA who co\/produce this CD with me and all the artists who have stuck around and really supported Krip-Hop Nation and the original founders like Keith Jones, Rob Da\u2019 Noize Temple, Binki Wio and Preechman. I hope Krip-Hop Nation live beyond me for the nextt generation.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Krip-Hop Nation was born with our Vol.1 Mixtape with Hip-Hop artists with disabilities all over the world. Since that day Krip-Hop Nation lived up to our tag line, ‘Krip-Hop is more than music.’ Krip-Hop Nation is an international network of Hip-Hop & other musicians with disabilities with a few chap-ters around the world what we call Mcees With Disabilities (MWD) in Germany, UK, Canada, & Africa. Krip-Hop is a community as well as style of music, an artistic space where people with disabilities can speak out and speak back to the social structures that exclude people based on disability, race, sexuality, and a host of other marginalized identities.<\/p>\n
Why Krip-Hop Nation: Musicians with disabilities have always been here however there has been a lack of cultural activism especially in Hip-Hop with a disability justice to not only advocate but to continue to display the talents of musicians with disabilities & at the same time advocate & celebrate our history, in-tersectional cultures & to politically educate ourselves & our communities locally, nationally & interna-tionally.<\/p>\n
When: Leroy Moore first put a spotlight on disabled Hip-Hop artists in the early 2000s when he co-produced and co-hosted a three-part series on what he dubbed “Krip-Hop” for a Berkeley, California, ra-dio station. The series appeared on KPFA’s Pushing Limits program, which focuses on news, arts, and culture from the disabled community. The series was so well-received that Moore shortly thereafter founded the Krip Hop Nation for disabled musicians<\/p>\n
Krip-Hop’s Mission is to educate the music, media industries and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities from Blues to Hip-Hop internationally. Our bi-line is Krip-Hop is More Than Music.<\/p>\n
Krip-Hop Nation\u2019s Main Objective is to spread awareness about the history, arts, the isms facing musi-cians with disabilities along with getting the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators. Krip-Hop Nation have put out CDs, held conferences and spoke on issues from police brutality against people with disabilities to ableism in Hip-Hop, media and in our communities.<\/p>\n
COMPILED BY DJ Quad & Krip-Hop Nation ENJOY!”<\/p>\n
Source: Cdbaby website<\/p>\n