MCs for Life
Punch presented ‘MCs for Life’ on Saturday 28th June 2008 (Birmingham) & Sunday 29th June 2008 (Manchester), an international conference and afterparty celebrating the very best in MC Culture and Heritage.
MCing represents the ultimate expression of attitude in popular culture and in recent years has become the most prominent of the four main elements of hip-hop.
Comprised of discussion panels, masterclasses, films and battles, ‘MCs for Life’ seeked to identify the role of the MC within hip-hop. For example, the development of the MC, from the ‘toasting’ with Jamaican sound systems to the birth of hip-hop when MC’s would toast over a breakbeat.
Changes in language and styles of rap and the international distillation of rap such as Grime (London), Hip Life (Ghana), Timba (Cuba), Kuduro(Angola) and Kwaito (South Africa) were also explored.
The following video showcases masterclasses, debates, seminars, freestyling, competitions and workshops with some of the best MCs in the world today with guests including:
Black Thought from the Roots, Lord Finesse, Rich Medina, Ursula Rucker, DJ Spooky, Tumi, Nappo, Omekongo, Lebo Mashile, Charlie Dark, Hymphatic Tabs, Benji Reid, PolarBear, Broken £nglish, Napo,TuggSTAR, TY, Bashy, No-lay, Fallacy, Stig of the Dump & Dr Syntax, Virus Syndicate, Segun, Jonzi D, BREIS, Million Dan, Rahul Verma, Zena Edwards, Malik, Nihal, Cipher, Rukus, Alex Blood, Baby J, Karmael Holmes, Zaki, Benji Reid, Ben Sharpa, Wariko.
Also check out some pictures below from the conference and afterparty:
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