User:Krip-Hop

The term, Krip-Hop was thought up by two friends, both people with disabilities. Krip-Hop, is an activist way of thinking about flipping society's negative language toward people with disabilities like cripple, handicapped and retarded into an empowering, artistic and social justice mirror reflecting the beauty, activism, music and art of people/musicians with disabilities. Krip-Hop speaks to the music industry, agents, historians, media makers, educators and professionals in the disabled social service/advocacy system and the general public about the talents, contributions, and his/her stories of musicians with disabilities from the Blues to Hip-Hop and beyond. When the term was thought up, the creators didn't want it to be confused with the famous Crips, street gang in LA, hence the reason it is spelled with a K. The term and meaning of Krip-Hop is fairly new to the public. It was thought of in 2003 and written on paper in the year of 2005-06. Krip-Hop came to the general public through a radio sires at KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, CA. a weekly radio show on issues facing the disabled community locally and globally. Now Krip-Hop is a full blown world-wide movement with connections to musicians/Hip-Hop artists in Africa, UK, Italy, Germany and more

Krip-Hop's Mission is to educate the music, media industries 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 Nation’s public education has many avenues i.e. Internet magazine’s columns, workshops, Internet radio show, publications and our famous mixtape series to name a few reporting on the latest news about musicians with disabilities.