“My music is as progressive for Hip-hop, as my commitment to my community is for Detroit.”—Khary WAE Frazier

To understand the Detroit experience, you need to hear the music of Khary WAE (Working At Excellence) Frazier, two-time award nominee for the Most Outstanding Hip-hop Performer at the Detroit Music Awards in 2008 and 2009. He is a Hip-hop artist and community advocate introducing audiences to a better understanding of Detroit, the Black experience, and Hip-hop. He partnered with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for Kwanzaa celebrations starting from 2010. 

Frazier developed the “Follow the Leader” Hip-hop Leadership workshop series, where over 2,500 Detroit students engaged in organizational training from 2008 – 2011. His advocacy provides a balance for his music that is a gateway to gathering an intrinsic value for Detroit.
 
Frazier’s 2015 album “If Detroit were Heaven,” is an experiential journey from his Rosa Parks boulevard neighborhood to his now eclectic network of rockers, jazz players, electronic musicians, and community leaders. Frazier’s website, www.detroitisdifferent.com, showcases his music, vision of Detroit, and the cultural dynamics of his hometown.

Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing love of the arts, inspiring growth, building leadership, and influencing the perceptions and roles of women in hip hop for current and future generations.

We Found Hip Hop is a cultural revolution which crosses borders, links diverse communities, inspires ideas, influences behaviors, & encourages dialogues through art. We explore the historical, present & future context, dynamics, impacts, & potential of hip­hop music & culture on Women, by bringing together leading figures to produce media, music, film & educational opportunities aimed at creating cross cultural exchange focusing on redefining the vital role of Women in Hip Hop.

Ever wonder where all the women in Hip Hop have gone?  We did too so we decided to be proactive and honor the contributions of Women in Hip-Hop every week in an event we created in 2009 called “The Foundation: Celebrating Women in Hip Hop”. The social impact of Hip Hop is a cultural revolution which crosses borders, inspires ideas and influences behaviors.

Encouraging freedom of expression, healthy competition, independent thought, & positive self-identity, this weekly event as a movement focuses on redefining the vital role of Women in Hip Hop. Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing love of the arts, inspire change and growth, build leadership, and influence the perceptions and roles of women in hip-hop for current and future generations. Hip Hop’s emergence in global cities through multiple, devastating wars (psychological, physical, and cultural) answers and questions global economic restructuring of our communities.

We bring together artists, activists and academics to stage new conversations about women of color and women of color feminisms across Hip Hop’s cultural forms. Using Media to address the role, images, and treatment of women in Hip-Hop we critique and disrupt status quo narratives and present investigations about value systems and structures of violence and human value, the politics of aesthetics, and women of color feminism.

Participants walk away with a greater understanding of the value of women in Hip Hop as a culture across disciplines.: Art (Graffiti/StreetArt etc.), Dance (B-Girling), Technology (DJing/Music Production/Video), Words (Emceeing/FreeStyling/Writing/Rhyming/Poetry), and Culture (the Knowledge Element of reading, observing video and listening to audio media, discussion)

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