Check out the Penn Hip Hop Initiative on Facebook.
Here's a clip of an interview with the founder.
Jon Iwry (J-Boy to his fans) is a
hip-hop artist from right outside Washington, D.C. A sophomore in the
College, this four-time winner of Penn’s Got Talent will be performing
original music and freestyle rapping at this year’s Spring Fling in the
Quad. He also has a radio show called “Check the Rhyme” that airs every
Tuesday at 6. And Jon is starting an on-campus group called the Penn
Hip-Hop Initiative, which he discusses below.
Q. Tell me about the club you’re starting. What’s it going to be like?
A. This semester I’m starting a music
appreciation club called the Penn Hip-Hop Initiative (PHHI). We’re
aiming to create on open community on Penn’s campus that appreciates the
vast world of hip-hop and fosters the creative presence of talented
artists on campus. We want to open it up to everyone as broadly as
possible, and hopefully even beyond the Penn Bubble. We’d like to become
a platform for making and distributing hip-hop music for the local
community, including other schools and venues in the Philadelphia area.
Commitment won’t be too demanding, but it’ll definitely be worthwhile
and fun. It will get started in the fall, when people (including myself)
aren’t busy with finals and flinging. We’ll probably start off with
public screenings of hip-hop documentaries, graffiti tours through
Philly, public speakers, and stuff like that; anything is possible, and
based on the many creative ideas people have proposed so far, the
Initiative has only good things in sight.
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