Hip Hop Karaoke & Drinks Followed By Urban Club Night (Free)

Believe it or not - this year marks the 50 year anniversary of Hip Hop founded in the streets of the Bronx - the only genre of music that educated more poor & working class kids (I'm one of them) about real life (politics, injustice, history, prejudice, racism, survival, street knowledge etc.) than all their years of schooling put together. So come & celebrate real hip-hop by rapping our favourite songs karaoke style. There might be some beat boxing and breakdancing too from yours truly!

To get us into the groove - here's some big fat dope sick educational history from the Teacher Teacher:

Way back in the days, 1979

Fatback Band made a record using rhyme

In the same year come the Sugarhill Gang

With the pow pow boogie, and the big bang-bang

RnB, Disco, Pop, Country, Jazz

All thought Hip-Hop, was just a little fad

But here comes Grandmaster Flash Non Stop

And right after Flash, Run DMC drop

Now, they had to pay attention to the scale

Where other music failed, hip-hop prevailed

It was seventy-six to 1980

The kids in Brooklyn were goin crazy

To Coke LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam

Beat boys ran to the latest jam

With DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix

And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games

A lot of suckers with colorful names

I'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm that

But the're all just wick-wick-wack

Like Doug E. Fresh said "I tell you now, you ain't nothin"

Instead of trying take out LL

You should be taking your home boys off the crack!

So let us get back to what we call Hip Hop

And what it meant to DJ Scott La Rock

Near the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys in Asia

Lies the Garden of Eden

Where Adam became a father to humanity

Now don't get mad at me

But according to facts, this seems just fantasy

Because man, the most ancient

Was found thousands of years before Adam began

And where he was found, again they can't laugh at ya

That's right, dead, smack in Africa

But due to religious and political power

We must be denied the facts every hour

Let's take a trip way back in the days

To the first civilization on Earth, the Egyptians

Giving birth to science, mathematics and music

Egypt was the land of facts, not guessing

People from all over the world had come

To learn from Egypt, Egypt number one

So people that believe in Greek philosophy

Know your facts, Egypt was the monopoly

Greeks had learned from Egyptian masters

You might say "Prove it", well here's the answers

640 to 322 b.C. originates Greek philosophy

But you might as well call it mythology

Because in that era Greece was at war

With themselves and Persia, what's more

Any philosopher at that time was a criminal

He'd be killed very simple

This indicates that Greece had no respect

For science or intellect

I'm not white or black, I'm brown

From the Boogie Down

Productions of course - we're musically thumping

See I'm telling and teaching pure facts

The way some act in rap is kinda wack

But they don't care cause their company's selling it

It's my philosophy, on the industry

Don't bother dissing me, or even wishing we'd

Soften, dilute, or commercialize all the lyrics

Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it

Hip hop rules and these industries ah ya can't take it

Please book your tickets for free at the link in the comments section to ensure entry and you get a chance to drop some lyrics!