UCLA's Hip-Hop Awareness Week
Excerpt:"Hip-hop off the top: The battle
With reputations on the line, rappers and break-dancers compete for bragging rights
By Richard Clough - DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
Usually quiet after dark, the heart of campus Wednesday night thumped to phat beats as some of UCLA's finest b-boys and MCs popped, flowed and spit their illest rhymes. As part of Hip-Hop Awareness Week, a coalition of campus groups held Mic Club, perhaps the only event on campus to be billed as "an evening of beat-boxing, freestyling and b-boying."
The event was organized by the Cultural Affairs Commission and the Student Committee for the Arts, in conjunction with the Majoring in Hip-Hop club. The club, for lovers of hip-hop music and culture, was founded in 2004 by second-year world arts and cultures student James Datu.
"We started out as a breaking club, but we wanted to cover all the elements of hip-hop to build a community for the entire culture of hip-hop," said Datu, also known as "J-Boogie."
"Majoring in Hip-Hop is all about learning about yourself," he said."