Free Youth Hip-Hop Conference

Not only does San Francisco have beautiful weather, but this Memorial Day weekend, the first annual Grind & Glory Youth Hip-Hop Conference, a FREE hip-hop music conference for young men and women ages 15-25, will be held at San Francisco State’s downtown campus. For those of you in SF, it definitely looks to be something worth checking out. More details are below.

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On Saturday May 27, 2006, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, The DJ Project after-school music program presents Grind & Glory. Register at www.grindandglory.com.

Hosted by hip-hop’s leading political lyricists Dead Prez, Grind and Glory kicks off on Saturday, May 27th at San Francisco State’s downtown campus, 425 Market Street at Fremont (Embarcadero Bart/MUNI stop).

Conference participants will create an electronic press kit in a breakout session hosted by Crown City Rockers Manager Tim House, learn about record industry economics from hip-hop heavy-weights including Ruckus Magazine’s Robert Collins, and be challenged to critically assess the image they project by no less than The Bishop of Hip-Hop and author of Lyrical Swords Adisa Ban-joko, plus KMEL's DJ Backside and Clear Channel’s Tony Ng as they pass through a sequence of professional development workshops.
Youth can scour information at the event's Hip-Hop Expo, featuring artist meet and greets with Jurassic 5’s Akil and Chali 2Na, a beat-making seminar by Zion-I’s Amp Live and show their skills at a $100 freestyle competition hosted by beatboxer Radioactive.

The day continues with speakers and panels covering Radio, Music Business 101 and Building A Buzz. Participants will include Domino from Hiero Imperium, Ill Trendz TV’s Sean Kennedy, Bicasso from Living Legends, Lydia from Quannum Records, plus copyright law specialists and other big name hip-hop artists and professionals to be announced.