A feature on KCPT's "The Local Show" spotlighted Scoe, T-Blaze, Bro Mo, Leo Night Us and founder of the Hip Hop Academy, Jeremy McConnell, in an recent airing on your TV. If you missed it, check the video player above at the 8:47 mark. Also check the magazine player below...
We first shed light on the Hip Hop Academy HERE, back in the summer of 2008 when we did a cover story on Jeremy, Bro Mo and Scoe for one of the first issues of Demencha. Jeremy McConnell and his ever-progressive posse are still cracking away at their effort to educate the...
Better late than never on getting this flyer up here, I suppose. Flavor Pak helped lay down a foundation over a decade ago for what many of us now take for granted - a local hip hop scene. I'm not sure in what capacity they're "back," but I have the utmost respect for...
DJ Mythik (Barbaric Merits) @ The Brick (KCMO) Lenny (Dubba L) @ The Brick (KCMO) Not pictured, but last night got kick started with me headed to my friend Mike Allen's wedding reception in South KC. Mike and I were real tight in high school, so seeing him and his...
Medusa has been referred to as the Godmother of LA's hip hop circuit, and apparently going on after her is not recommended (which is why she's headlining, we're guessing). The Magic Heart Genies will make an appearance (consisting of Myka 9, J The Sarge and DJ Drez), in...
I had the pleasure of checking out the KCK Street and Art Festival on Friday, wherein b-boys, DJs, and muralists from the Hip Hop Academy put on a show at the random street scene. But the real treat was KCMO band, Hearts of Darkness who performed from 7:30-9:00. A 17-piece...
The Hip Hop Academy Ringleaders: Jeremy McConnell, Brother of Moses, MC Scoe (L-R) in front of the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO About this time last year, I had the pleasure of dropping in on a summer program for Kansas City youths at Paseo Middle School in...
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