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• Fittingly, the release also coincides with UMe’s continued celebration of rap’s 50th birthday, Hip-Hop 50, as well.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231006816734/en/
  It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back will be available in either 4-LP 180gram vinyl and 2LP 180 gram vinyl—pressed on limited-run red or standard.
• So, we took that and went further with It Takes a Nation, approaching it like a rock band.
• Public Enemy first dropped It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on an unsuspecting world on June 28, 1988.

• As a researcher who specializes in hip-hop culture, I know that one of hip-hop’s greatest gifts is a certain mindset that focuses on freedom of thought, flexibility and truth-telling.
• It also includes creativity, authenticity, confidence, braggadocio, uninhibited voice and integrity as those things relate to one’s community and culture.

1. Claim your space

• And when I say ‘Who’s house?’ I want y'all to say ‘Run’s house.’” Through this call-and-response routine, the group claimed every arena in which they performed.
• Hip-hop’s longevity is due in large part to this boldness – artists standing firm and fighting back even when they were under attack.

2. Form a squad or a crew

• Educators can lean on their squad to help strategize and stay sane.
• A squad or crew need not be confined to just one school.
• Just as hip-hop artists are often part of larger groups, educators can similarly build a larger community of support.

3. Remix

• One of the most popular strategies of creating hip-hop music is the remix – where a song’s producer will create a new version of a song, sometimes by borrowing or sampling beats from other songs, changing up the pace, or even introducing new lyrics that weren’t part of the original.
• A classic example would be KRS-One’s 1988 song “Still #1.” Whereas the original version was laid back, the “Numero Uno” remix featured a sample of an upbeat Latin jazz song and even opened in Spanish.
• A remix may also be helpful with school funding.

4. Go crate digging

• Crate digging is a critical part of the remix.
• After desegregation, for instance, a new struggle emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to make school lessons more culturally and racially inclusive.
• Communities around the country partner with the Children’s Defense Fund to offer local Freedom Schools.

5. Still keep it real

• At the time, it felt like intense pressure to keep it real and to represent your community.
• I now look back and appreciate that it actually wasn’t pressure, but rather permission to be authentic.
• But there’s no restriction against “keeping it real” and discussing the new laws and policies as a civics lesson.

• Data 360 and Hip Hop Education Center are partnering to host the Hip Hop Hackathon 2023 event series July 19 and 26, 2023 and World Hip Hop Day virtual celebration and competition from August 9-31, 2023, in honor of Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary.
• Los Angeles, July 14, 2023 We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Hip Hop Hackathon 2023 event series and competition in partnership with Data 360 and the Hip Hop Education Center.
• This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop, and Hip Hop Hackathon is proud to be part of the celebration.
• "We are thrilled to be working with the Hip Hop Education Center to host this year's Hip Hop Hackathon event series and competition" said Data 360.

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  LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DJ Cassidy will take his highly lauded primetime television series "Pass The Mic" on tour in 2023 in partnership with Black Promoters Collective.
• Over the past two years, DJ Cassidy transformed how we experience music with "Pass The Mic."
• Over the past two years, DJ Cassidy transformed how we experience music with "Pass The Mic."
• Now, the modern-day maestro will recreate the experience with a series of highly anticipated live concerts that will surely make history!