MANIFESTO: Toronto

MANIFESTO! Hip Hop History has been made!

MANIFESTO:
A Toronto based event spanning 4 days, containing 8 events featuring over 85 Toronto Hip Hop Artists! This event was jam-packed with workshops, break-dancing, beat boxing and live hip-hop performances from all my favorite Toronto hip-hop artists!

History was made and i was proudly there to witness it. The Sunday night event had all my favorite Toronto Hip-Hop Artists preforming along side with each other for the first time ever in history; preforming a "Live Mixtape".

ARTISTS:
Maestro, Michie Mee, Saukrates, Dream Warriors, Choclair, Dan-e-o, Tara Chase, Brassmunk, Eternia, Daetona, Rochester and Kamau.

The concert was without a doubt the best hip-hop performance I've ever seen or attended and I hope they will bring it back again next year! Craziest part about this jam-packed event was that it was totally free! (Though I'd defiantly pay to see that again.)

I got the the opportunity to have a little talk with Saukrates. I asked him how long it took everyone to put this live mixtape together and he said they pretty much just winged it.

BET - Read A Book

BET has recently aired a rap song that is supposedly suppose to encourage young people into reading a book, drinking water, watch your kids... etc. But the way the message is delivered, some may consider it to being racist. This video has recently stirred up some controversy, enough so that it even got play on CNN.

Here's a very good quote from a youtuber:

"You know if instead of "Read a book nigga.." he would have said "Smoke a blunt nigga..." no one would have a problem with it.

That is the point of this RAP song.

It is not meant to encourage you to read a book, it is meant for you to OPEN your eyes and see the root of the problem in todays society."

"THIS SONG IS A SOCIAL SATIRE"

I love the fact that CNN made sure that a black male reporter conducted the interview with the creator of this song. I guess it would seem too strange to have a white reporter conduct the interview debating such an issue. CNN pretty much bashed the creator without allowing him to really establish his reason for creating the song. Good old American Media... bahhh.