As many of you know, I've been writing a book about Hip-Hop artists with disabilities for some time now. Well at this time I'm about to go onto Chapter 3, Artists' Statements. This is a call to all Hip-Hop artists with disabilities!! Leroy Moore Founder of Krip-Hop Nation & Professor/Author Terry Rowden has teamed up to write a book about disabled Hip-Hop artists & the Krip-Hop Nation. Many sections of the book will use artist’s personal accounts of their lives, and the artists' views about the Hip-Hop industry in their countries and communities, in the music industry mainstream or underground. We are looking for original stories in your own words with a SMALL bio and your website links all of this in a 1-2 page limit.
If you do and want to send in your story then you have agreed to let Krip-Hop Nation have full control on the publishing of your story. Krip-Hop Nation has always been a labor of trust, love and activism so this book venture is no different. Krip-Hop Nation wants to put our stories, history, politics and experiences in one book from Africa to America. The working title of the book is Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge.
Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge will bring the words, rhythm, voices and politics of disabled Hip-Hop artists from around the world into one easily accessible space. This book is the continuation of the Krip-Hop Mixtape Series that started in 2006.
Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge will be centered around interviews that I have conducted with Hip-Hop artists from all over the world. It will include the history and teaching of Krip-Hop Nation, personal accounts of their lives, and the artists' views about the industry. The book will also contain a collection of essays on the Hip-Hop industry and on the struggles and successes of Hip-Hop artists with disabilities. At the end of the book there will be resource section featuring websites, contact information, and other resources related to disabled Hip-Hop artists. Adding a crucial dimension to Hip-Hop journalism, Krip-Hop: Hip-Hop Artists with Disabilities Drop Knowledge will fill a much needed space in our ideas about African-American and global popular music.
There is no guarantee that we will use every submission but we will email you if we do use your write up. So if u are interested in writing up a one - two page story (not a bio but a story) for our upcoming book please email me the story with a high resolution picture, all your web links and a short bio at kriphopproject@yahoo.com. In your bio please tell us what you are working on and your current email address for the resource section if the book. Also if you liked to be interviewed by Krip-Hop Nation for the book drop me an email too.
Thank you,
Leroy F Moore Jr.
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation
Leroy Moore & Krip-Hop Nation is on Facebook too