About the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
We here at Brooklyn Bodega are dedicated to the preservation of real Hip-Hop. Every year, Wes Jackson, veteran entrepreneur and president of the Bodega rallies a force of volunteers who refuse to be passive about the state of Hip-Hop music and culture. The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival staff is a diverse group that comes from all professions and walks of life. It is never too early to get involved… Reach out and come join this dynamic group of cultural advocates.
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The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is a celebration of Hip-Hop music and culture. Our aim is to highlight Hip-Hop’s legacy as an agent of artistic progression, community building and social change. We like to say that the “Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is funded, created, inspired and produced for Hip-Hop by Hip-Hop.”
We do this by producing a variety of events from musical performances, Brooklyn Hip-Hop Family Day, film screenings, gallery shows and more.
In an effort to create a truly open event Brooklyn Bodega does everything in their power to keep the Festival affordable.
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Our Philosophy
We take a very liberal and intellectual view of Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop is more than music. It’s fashion, politics, sports, philosophy, journalism, publishing, web design, technology, visual art, digital art, sculpture, graffiti, dance, DJ’ing, producing, activism. We want to celebrate it all.
The Festival is more than a concert or outdoor fair. It is a more of a family reunion for lovers of this great culture. People come from Flatbush to Berlin to enjoy the Brooklyn sun.
Our hope is to produce a world class event in Brooklyn where the best and brightest travel to Brooklyn. As well as celebrating Hip-Hop culture we want to establish Brooklyn as a worldwide destination.
We also endeavor to support local artists from Brooklyn and the NYC area while not creating an insular event for, by and in Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Bodega Team
The leader of our team is Festival Founder and Executive Director, Wes Jackson. Wes is also the president of Brooklyn Bodega, producer of the Festival and The Room Service Group, the firm that handles all marketing executions.
The Bodega and Festival staff consists of over 50 individuals who work in various phases from planning to marketing to execution. Bodega designers create all marketing tools. Writers create all the copy. Web designers create and maintain the online presence from the informational site to the social networks. Our Documentation Crew captures photos, film and video. The Production Team handles all details from permits to staging to port-a-potty’s
The Festival marketing execution will be supported by a team of experienced project managers and account reps with a wide range of experience. Below is a partial Sponsor list:
- thetruth.com
- Brooklyn Brewery
- Scion
- The Brooklyn Borough President’s Office
- The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
- Xbox
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Past Performers
- Ghostface Killah
- Lupe Fiasco
- KRS ONE
- Big Daddy Kane
- Brand Nubian
- Little Brother
- Emily King
- Leela James
- Tanya Morgan
- Consequence
- Blu and Exile
- Mickey Factz
- J Period
- Jeru Da Damaja
- EPMD
- Chubb Rock
- Sean Price
- Buckshot
- Kidz In The Hall
- Crazy Legs
- Keith Murray
- Ralph McDaniels
- Fat Joe
- Maya Azucena
- The Large Professor
- Smif N Wessun
- Dres
- DJ Premier
- Skillz
