User:Marcus Arrilius/The Mile High Alliance

The Mile High Alliance is a Hip-Hop awareness group of Producers, Emcees, Dj's, Artists, and Dancers native to the city of Denver, Colorado. It's mission is to support, and protect the "4 Pillars of Hip-Hop" as conceived by Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation. Although the Mile High Alliance is not affiliated with the Zulu Nation, it does share many of the same principals and values including the 18 principles. The Mile High Alliance attempts to carry on the traditions of the Hip-Hop culture by supporting local events, and artwork in the city of Denver and abroad that express Hip-Hop through graffiti artwork, Dj-ing, Emcee-ing, and Breakdancing. The Alliance serves as an organization that helps local acts and artists in the city of Denver work together to spread the message of Hip-Hop in a more positive way. This is done by getting local participants together for shows, events, and discussion panels to support the common cause of Hip-Hop and address community issues and concerns in the culture.

The Mile High Alliance was founded by Marcus "Arrilius" Hayes in 2010. As Denver native and local Hip-Hop Producer/DJ/Emcee his mission was to not only unite the local artists in Denver under a more constructive format, but to continue the traditions and values that the culture of Hip-Hop was founded on a generation before. His inspiration came from watching his favorite Hip-Hop performers at a young age and by becoming a performer himself at a later age. He found that the scene in Denver was conforming to a radio influenced rap style of music that caused some of the local performers to work against each other rather than cooperate. In late 2009 he began constructing a format for local artists of all types to begin performing and collaborating together at local shows and on record. In 2010, www.5280alliance.com was created as a forum where all of those artists could collaborate and promote local shows. The website is now supported by more than a dozen local Denver acts totaling over 25 individual members and rising. Although the Alliance is still in it's infancy, the movement it represents is now beginning to generate a buzz around the city as more and more people come out to support each event and more and more artists join the cause each year.

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