Honoring Hip Hop

Hey Fellow Hip Hop Heads,

Its Megan C., and this entry is going to focus on my ficitious event, the awards show. Which I have titled "FAMU HIP HOP HONORS," after our first entry I realized that a lot of people have the topic hip hop confused. They look at people like Soldja Boy with his dance tracks(not saying they aren't good) and think that's real hip hop, so that is where I need your help.

Since the hip-hop culture has been "tweeked" a little, I am now trying to examine how to go about choosing people in the hip-hop community to honor and recognize.

The goal of my event is to award members of the Florida hip-hop community for their outstanding work, and help promote the FAMU Institute of Music Industry Studies. So this is the run-down of the event:

The FAMU Institute of Music Industry Studies will be hosting the first “FAMU Hip Hop Honors” award show on June 5, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the FAMU Multipurpose Center Teaching Gymnasium.

With the goal in mind I have decided that the main "Hip Hop Honor" will be given to Russell Simmons, media mogul, who used his name and marketing power to bring together some of the biggest names in the hip-hop and R&B communities together for a worthy cause. The 2008 Presidental Election, their city tour included voter registration drives and help get a number of African-American citizens, both young and old registered.

The show will be hosted by FAMU's 90.5 (radio station) personalities Sean D and Da Prince, which also will help with the promotion of the institute and university, by showcasing some of the many talents we have among our student population.

Performances are a must for an award show, and who better to perform at a FAMU show, but Tallahassee's own T-Pain. This Billboard topping, showstopper is a product of the great captiol city of Tallahassee, Fla., and it would only be right to invite him to give a performance at the first award show.


There won't be any voting categories for this award show, because we are simply giving them different awards based on their contributions to hip hop and the community. Like Trick Daddy, as much as he can make headlines, the media may forget the good that he does in Dade County. "Trick Loves the Kids" an ongoing project that delievers toys to thousands of Dade County children during the Christmas holidays.

Okay, we don't want to give away to many details about the award show... so make sure you come back next week and see whats going on with the other Hip Hop Events..

So lets start a new discussion:

What do you about the mix up of HIP HOP (Common, Nas, Jeezy) and Dance Tracks (Soldja Boy, DJ Unk)...

The Birth of HIP HOP

In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and then He created HIP HOP. We are Team HIP HOP, consisting of Dorian P., Megan C., and Natasha G., and we are all apart of the summer 2009 PR Methods course at Florida A&M University (FAMU). We were given the assignment to plan a fictitious event for the FAMU Institute of Music Industry Studies; Dorian-Book & Listening Party, Megan-Awards Show, and Natasha-Music & Film Festival. Each week we will post topics of discussion and we welcome your opinions, to help with the success of our events.

The PR Methods course is a writing class and lab. In this class we will learn how to compare communication tools PR professionals use for getting messages through the media to target publics and audiences. The course is designed around the events that we will plan (as stated above). We are required to individually create media kits (packets of information regarding event and/or company that are sent to various media), websites and blogs, that will help to promote our events.

The books we are using to help guide us in this course are:
-Public Relations Writing: Form and Style, 8th Edition
Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes
-The New Rules of Marketing and PR
Dave Meerman Scott
-Strategic Writing: Multimedia Writing for PR, Advertising, Sales and Marketing, and Business
Charles Marsh, David W. Guth, Bonnie Poovey Short
-Writing PR: A Multimedia Approach
Meta G. Carstarphen and Richard A. Wells
-The Associated Press Stylebook
N. Goldstein

Hello fellow HIP HOP bloggers,

I am Dorian P., the fashionista from Cincinnati, Ohio. I am a graduating Public Relations senior. I have the privilege of planning a book signing and listening party to promote Russell Simmons' newest book. This event will help promote not only the book, but the FAMU Institute as well.

I am Megan C., the north star from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla by way of New Jersey. I am a graduating Public Relations senior with a minor in Spanish. I am honored to have the opportunity to plan the FAMU Institute's first awards show entitled "FAMU Hip Hop Honors." The purpose of this event is to award individuals in the Florida HIP HOP Industry.

I am Natasha G., the southern belle from the beautiful country city of Macon, Ga. I am a graduating Public Relations senior with minors in both Business Administration and French. I have the pleasure of planning a weekend music and film festival that will showcase the best in film and music of today and yesterday that celebrate hip hop. This event is to help generate interest in the new HIP HOP Institute.

So now we're posing this question to you...

"When did u fall 'n luv with
HIP HOP?"