Krip-Hop Project: What is it & History

Krip-Hop Project Mission is to educate the music, media industry and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip-Hop main objective is to get the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators. Krip-Hop Project reports on the latest news about musicians with disabilities through their website, http://www.kriphop.com , and columns on poor Magazine and Hip-Hop Journalist Association, http://www.hhja.org http://www.poormagazine.org, Krip-Hop internet radio show on http://www.alltalkradio.net\krip-hop and other Kri-Hop publications. Krip-Hop Project’s public education consists of forums, presentations and performances. Our products include: Mixtapes, resource pamphlets and our future projects are books and T Shirts .

Krip-Hop Project’s History: Krip-Hop started out as a hobby of Leroy Moore. As a Black disabled man, Leroy questioned the music industry on the representation of disabled artists and being a music lover Leroy wanted to know where are musicians with disabilities, especially Black and other musicians of color with disabilities. After finding out that there were and is many disabled\blind Blues artists he went onto Doo Whoop, Soul and ended up with Hip-Hop. His library started to blossom with books on disabled musicians especially those of color.

At this time of his research he was involved with a radio show collective on KPFA in Berkeley, CA. So the collective agreed with his ideal to produce a three part series on Hip-Hop artists with disabilities. After the series, he wanted to do more. Leroy put out a call to disabled Hip-Hop artists through the Internet and got back a wonderful responds. The process was to email him one track that had no swearing, no putting down women and had to have good social justice or positive lyrics concerning disability and or other struggles. He also asked to post mail him their CDs so he could play their music on the radio and in his workshops. The energy and quality of the music now known as Krip Hop spurred Leroy to create a mixtape and use his advocacy skills to promote what is now the Krip Hop nation.

Contact Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Kriphopproject [at] yahoo.com
http://www.kriphop.com
http://www.myspace.com\kriphop
Listen to Krip-Hop Radio 1st & 3rd Sundays 8-9am California time @ http://www.alltalkradio.net\krip-hop


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