i love krip hop!!!
C.R.I.$.I.$. – Good Foot
a song dedicated to disabled brothers and sisters, cop it on the krip hop mixtape
C.R.I.$.I.$.-Good Foot Zambian Hip-Hop artist on the rise ©2007
C.R.I.$.I.$. aka Mr. Swagger | MySpace Music Videos
“go to the club and dance to your favorite song/
surprise everybody and swing on them crutches/
if they got a problem swing on them bustas”
“race plus disability divided by sexuality = huh?”
the transcript of this amazing piece is below the cut, courtesy of the brilliant, resilient, truth-illuminating, ground shaking and breaking artist leroy moore. proud to call this artist friend. check out his other work, like sins invalid and krip hop, and be ready to be blown away by this man.
if you don’t know… now you know. ;)
from the illustrious Leroy Moore (love him!!):
Krip-Hop Nation, Art-In-Action & the University of California at Berkeley bring you the first ever panel/performance event highlighting two upcoming movements in Hip-Hop: Krip-Hop (Hip-Hop by artists with disabilities) and Homo-Hop (Hip-Hop by artists who are queer). “Diversifying Hip-Hop: Krip-Hop & Homo-Hop” will be held on Saturday April 11th 2009 at the Worth Ryder Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, U.C. Berkeley. The building is near the corner of Bancroft & College Ave. Admission is free.
Hip-Hop has a rich expressive history, and at the same time it is now heavily commercialized. Who defines Hip-Hop? Who controls what its image will be? This program explores two emerging offshoots of the Hip-Hop movement, “Krip Hop” and “Homo Hop.” Bringing together academics, performers and community activists, the event will explore these sub-cultures, gathering leading figures from both cultural phenomena to examining their place within Hip-Hop culture(s) and their invitation to a more diverse audience. The goal of “Diversifying Hip-Hop: Krip-Hop & Homo Hop” is to bring the margins front and center, to expose the struggle of difference, as has always been the legacy of hip-hop. More… »
Cripchick is a powerchair-roaring, young queer disabled woman of color. She grew up on an army base in the South for 18 years and continues to live (and love) North Carolina. She has been a disability/crip youth organizer since high school. Cripchick is crushing hard on popular education, radical women of color feminism, and people practicing liberation & interdependence.