The 9th Annual Uganda Hip Hop summit

The 9th Annual Uganda Hiphop Summit

The Uganda HipHop Foundation & Bavubuka Foundation, recognize the power of Hip-Hop music and culture to catalyze positive social change. Hip-Hop is modern youth’s cultural foundation, and symbolizes the ability of people living in marginalized communities to flourish and live their dreams. With the vision of creating a peace building platform that empowers and unifies young people from diverse communities, we continue to create a voice for the youth in Uganda.

The Hip Hop Summit has been an on-going event for the last seven years. The main aim of the summit is promote the hip hop culture in Uganda by empowering the youth and creating positive awareness through music and culture. The Hip Hop Summit is targeted to the youth crowd mainly students aged 18-25 years old. It features live performances by local and international Uganda’s top urban artists from the Hip Hop and R&B genres. The Hip Hop summit is not just about The Concert. During the day time there is a series forums and workshops that are carried out by Uganda's top Hip Hop icons and role models. The summit touches other areas of Hip Hop culture by featuring a DJ scratching demonstration, a B-Boy dance battle, a Graffiti art display, a Motivation speakers, and a Hip Hop Fashion Show.

Favorite Quotations:
"There is a self Liberating truth in celebrating the indigenous in you". THE BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT OF THE SUMMIT THIS YEAR WILL BE BLESSED BY APPEARANCES FROM:

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT FORUM HOSTED BY: BABALUKU - UGLY EMCEE -XENSON
CELEBRATING THE HIP HOP STORIES OF UGANDA

HIGH LIGHTED STORIES:
BAVUBUKA ALLSTARZ MOVEMENT
BONFIRE MOVEMENT
BABOON FOREST ENT.
SWAGG AFRICA

INSPIRATIONAL HIP HOP MINI DOCS MUSIC VIDEOS AND TRAILERS FROM UGANDA & AROUND THE WORLD.

WORDS BEATS & LIFE - NORMADIC WAX - BAVUBUKA DYNASTY

LEGENDARY FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW SCHOOL PERFOMANCES BY
LYRICAL.G - GMC
ATLAS DA AFRICA
GNL ZAMABA
BABALUKU
TSHILA THE AFRICAN QUEEN
YOUNG NICK
BABOON FOREST
BONSATULE
T-BRO
MON MC - NEW HOPE SQUAD
S4J
MC YALA
SAINT NELLY SADE
ABENGANDA
SAINT. CA
UGLY EMCEE
LADY SLYKE
JUNGEL THE MAN EATER
SHIP CREW
MC FLOWER
MC ROY
MC SHIP
BAVUBUKA ALLSTARZ
MC SPIDA
LUGA LUGA SQUAD
TALENT4LYFE (STONE CITY)
SAVIOUR BLACK REIGN

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE BY:
KWEEN G OF THE KILLA QUEENZ (SYDNEY AUSTRALIA)
DJ BATENGA THE MYTH - BATABAZI FAMILY (BOSTON)
DJ APEMAN ( UGANDA)

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT CYPHER (FOR ALL EMCEES)

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT SPOKEN TRUTH LOUNGE
SISTER IFE - POETRY IN CESSION
GILLY WILLY BON FIRE
SLIM EMCEE

ROCKING LIVE WITH THE FRESHEST BBOYS & BGIRLS
JERICHO BREAKERS
B BOY IMAM

GRAFFITI EXPRESSION: GRAFFITI UGANDA

OUTER SPACE FASHION: BY KAZ WEAR

MANY MORE PARTICIPANTS ARE STILL BEING CONFIRMED WE WILL KEEP UPDATING THE LIST AS WE COUNT DOWN TO THIS UGANDA HIP HOP CELEBRATION OF THE LONGEST RUNNING HIP HOP EVENT IN UGANDA.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL THE FAN ARTISTS FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THE HIP HOP COMMUNITY COMING OUT TO BUILD SO WE CAN GROW HIP HOP IN OUT COMMUNITIES IN UNITY.....

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Connect4Climate will kick-start an interactive dialogue on climate change issues amongst African youth and social media users around the world. Sign up now (go to the Sign Up tab) and join the conversation!

THE COMPETITION: Connect4Climate will launch a photo and video challenge in September 2011 focused on Africa. Young people from the ages of 13 to 30 are invited to share their ...personal stories around six themes:

1. Clean Energy
2. Agriculture
3. Forests
4. Health and Climate Change
5. Gender and Climate Change
6. Local solutions

Through photos and/or short videos (60 seconds or less), participants will share ideas, present solutions and show how climate change is affecting their lives, families, communities and environment in Africa.

The best entries will receive prizes at a high-profile awards ceremony and be exhibited at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa this December.

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Hip Hop Beef At City Beat Party

Kampala — THE hip hop City Beat readers’ party at Club Silk last Friday was not the usual party where you have artistes sharing hugs with their fans. This was more of a battle of words and these are artists who have many words.

When one fan asked about the beef among hip hop artists, there was a heated exchange.

The strife is mainly between GNL Zamba, currently the most popular hip hop artist, and Navio.

Navio first claimed he did not know what was going on. According to Navio, GNL and he are not even competitors seeing that they belong to different leagues. GNL had a different explanation.

For him, all the hate must have started when he decided to be GNL and not Klear Kut. And when he rubbed it in by claiming to be the king of Ugandan hip hop and the money set in, trouble started.

Navio remembered when it all started, that GNL Zamba disrespected him while performing at a show in Mbarara.

“I do not understand Luganda well, but someone translated for me what GNL had said,” he said.

GNL said anyone who has seen him disrespecting Navio on any stage should come forward. He said he does not understand the claims about who owns what lyrics.

“Navio called me and I wrote my verses while he wrote his,” GNL explained.

Most of the fans called for a ceasefire but the artists and the two camps for a time seemed tranquil. So when GNL Zamba offered an autographed CD to Emmanuel Ayebare who had come all the way from Mbarara, Navio did the same.

Whatever the intentions, there were boos of “beef, beef!” throughout the club.

Lyrical G, probably the most respected hip hop artist, calmed the situation while The Mith simply said “beef is simply part of hip hop”.

When female hip hop artists Saint C.A summed it up in one statement: “Boys will be boys and beef is overrated”, the real fun time kicked off.

Lyrical G performed songs off his coming album, while Navio and The Mith took control of the crowd; making them clap at a single sign and wave whenever they deemed fit.

GNL Zamba made meaning of the dance floor when he was joined on stage by fans, especially on Omwana wa Baaba. He shook the club with Kikakane.

And how the girls moved those waists! GNL also introduced a new rapper, Mato Mungi, to the fans.

UNIQue and Saint C.A did not perform but simply teased the fans with samples of their varied talents

Kona Abatesi

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Freestyle session at Bavubuka Foundation http://bavubukacommunity.blogspot.com http://bavubuka.org http://bwette.blogspot.com