![]() ![]() Others followed suit: “My legendary brother Kool DJ AJ was always a stand-up dude and always treated me like his younger brother…” 8, and the following morning his friend and music partner tweeted the sad news: “RIP to my DJ and friend Kool DJ AJ!!!!” A smaller crowd of a select few attended the homegoing services the following morning.Hip-hop’s Founding Father Kool DJ Herc and MCs Busy Bee and Kurtis Blow were among those in attendance.Įarlier this past July, MCs Kurtis Blow and Rahiem, of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, tweeted that their comrade had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. 17 to pay their respects to fellow legend Kool DJ AJ. 137th St.) on the evening of Thursday, Sept. Universal Hip Hop Museum, extensive conglomerate of hip-hop pioneers and aficionados came out to Harlem’s Mother AME Zion Church (146 W. I thank you on behalf Vice Chairman Ndaba Mandela and the Founding Members of the UHHM Afrika BamBaataa, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grandwizzard Theodore, Joe Conzo, Shawn Thomas, and Mickey Bentson for your generous donation.Ĭlick the link to make your donation today. Everybody and anybody who loves Hip Hop should support this cause. Please share this email appeal with 10 friends and ask them to also support this very important cause. However, you can give any amount that you feel comfortable with. The suggested donation amount is $42.00 (in recognition of Hip Hop’s 41st Anniversary +1 year for the Zulu Nation’s Anniversary). The Universal Hop Hop Museum will be launching a virtual museum in 2016 and begin construction on a brick and mortar building by 2017. Your tax deductible contribution will go directly towards development of the museum. ![]() ![]() Hip Hop has always been a force of change, and establishment of the Universal Hip Hop Museum will ensure that Hip Hop will continue to be a force of positive change worldwide. Our goal is to uplift the disadvantaged with innovative educational and cultural arts programming, tech and art incubation, social justice and poltical reform, and economic empowerment. ![]() But to also serve as the culture’s governing body leading the way forward in the global socio-economic advancement of Hip Hop. The mission of the museum is not just to preserve Hip Hop History, which is extremely important. I am writing a personal letter of appeal for your support to raise funds for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, the official museum of Hip Hop Culture. Normal members, including whites and Latinos, would often wear necklaces or shirts depicing an outline of the African continent or a crude tribal drawing of a man's face.Dear Friends, Family, Board Members and Supporters of Hip Hop. These costumes were seen as symbols of the Zulu Nation's desire to help others regardless of their nationality or skin color, and also to symbolise people who were peaceful until they were oppressed by those who were not. During the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s, Afrika Bambaataa and Zulu Nation members would often wear clothes that represented various culture of the world. The visual imagery of the Zulu Nation has changed considerably as well. In the 2000s, the Zulu Nation left the system of "believing" and instead adheres to Factology versus Beliefs, a philosophy and doctrine that cane be seen in, though is not exclusive to, Nuwaubianism. From the late 1980s, at the height of the Afrocentric movement in hip hop, the movement seemed to be incorporating many doctrines from the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earth, and the Nuwaubians. The Zulu Nation has undergone many changes over the past decade. The Zulu Nation have come to embrace and preserve hip hop's key elements, and have exemplified what is often considered hip hop's 5th element, knowledge. By the 1980s, hip hop had spread globally with the Zulu Nation behind it, with the Zulu Nation currently having chapters in over twenty countries with an estimated membership of ten thousand. It arose in the 1970s when reformed New York City gang members began to organise cultural events for youth, combining local dance and music into what would become known as the various elements of hip hop culture. The Universal Zulu Nation is an international hip hop awareness group formed and headed by hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. ![]()
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