"Hip Hop Against All Violence"

Last year around this time I co-founded and launched the grassroots movement Hip Hop Against All Violence. We debut the movement in Jesolo, Italy. Slum Village, Hip Hop Dance Competition, Battle of the Year, Hip Hop For Humanity International Short Film Contest. In the course of three days some 10,000 people were introduced to Hip Hop Against All Violence. I entered a short film I created and named the same title. Sean O' Grady of One Viisiion edited this piece. The film turned out to be a little shy of the allowed 15 minutes. It was all the time that was needed to take the trip through Hip Hops' life and times with violence. Hip Hop was birthed in violent times, hard times. Upon it's birth it had a soothing effect on the concrete jungle, like a dope fiend hitting that main vien with some good stuff. The party had already started by the time I really started b-boying but it was still early. I was a witness to the early gangs in New York growing up and I got to see the calming. New York was better for a minute, till the stick up kids came a long an jacked the party. I have to say, I would deal with stick up kids over the gangs any day. Homicide rate is much lower. But yea, krews or crews was what you seen every where after the fall of the gang empire in New York.

Don't get me wrong, you could still find some Savage Skulls on Morris Ave now and then or some Chingalings but it was mostly peace and small numbers. Hip Hoppers was taking over the city, so much so the mainstream caught a glimpse of it. After that it exploded into a world wide phenomenon. Peace, Unity, Love and having fun and having overstanding, are just some of the bricks of the foundation hip hop was built upon and it was changing the face of the earth.The film is very accurate but you have to be up on your studies if you're to catch this joint for what it is. Hip Hop Against All Violence which can be seen in it's entirety at http://www.onloq.com/ on "Form the Frontlines" went on to win first place for best humanitarian hip hop film. A tee-shirt design was launched as well. Since January of last year it's debut, Hip Hop Against All Violence has traveled to 10 countries and traveled quited a bit through out the US and it's still picking up momentum. The money that was raised from the movement was used to hold conferences in different elementary, middle and high schools. The efforts were praised by teachers and by politicians as well as many supporters from different communities all over the world. We didn't want to just say hip hop against the death penalty which at the moment was our battle, we broadened it. In the past few year hip hop has attracted a lot of negativity. Instead of peace, unity, love and having fun hip hop has been associated with crime, violence, drugs and sex even murder. We felt this problem was relevant to our cause seeing so many members of the hip hop community wind up in prison or yea, on death row. hip hop Against All Violence was a seed that was planted. An idea that was spoken into existence. It did grow, and it continues to grow. For the second year anniversary I am going to re-design the logo and keep it alive. I am also dropping a new line of shirts with more direct blows to our main objective, to have the death penalty abolished world wide.

We plan on continuing to enter schools to bring about awareness of gangs and violence, drugs and capital punishment as well as the true foundation of hip hop. We teach the original origins of the culture the true meaning of being a hip hopper. We will also continue to enter prisons to spread the word as well as hip hop against all violence did make it into Santa Ana maximum security prison in Modena, Italy thanks to Senza Voce (Voice of the Voiceless) the co-founders of the movement. This movement is non-profit. All monies go back into the movement creating conferences, lectures, performances, benefits and work shops. We ask everyone for their support. You can buy a shirt from my myspace page www.myspace.com/capitalxaka305375 bulk orders for school and groups are welcomed with a discount. Peace and progress. "X"

"The Blak Soulz Dance Krew"