Detroit Features Hip Hop in Stop The Violence Weekend Print
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 23:20

The Better Detroit Youth Movement, True Infinity Solutions, and The City of Detroit presents the 1st Annual Detroit Stop The Violence Weekend Friday May 2nd, 2008. With the help and support of many and with legendary hip hop figures Grandmaster Jay, Kurtis Blow & The Pioneers of Hip hop and their special invited hip hop artists; May 2 is a day of proclamation and salvation of our city and our youth from the epidemic of violence destroying the city of Detroit.

1st Annual Detroit Stop The Violence Weekend has many Scheduled Events ranging from The Gospel of Hip Hop Speaks with Grandmaster Jay, Kurtis Blow, Hip hop Speaks and interviews thru out the city to the Hip hop Speaks Pioneers of Hip Hop Concert at the Fox Theater with hip hop and rap luminaries Whodini, KRS-1, Doug E Fresh, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, Sugar Hill Gang, & Kurtis Blow

Detroit asks that you join them in a movement to empower, enlighten, uplift, motivate, encourage, inspire, educate, create, celebrate, and restore peace, belief, hope, unity, freedom and most of all LOVE to our youth and to the City of Detroit through the use of the most powerful medium on the planet next to God…Hip Hop.

Headlining and featured hip hop artists include The Legendary Grandmaster Jay, Kurtis Blow & The Pioneers of Hip hop; With special invited hip hop artists and guests Stretch Money, Trik Trik, Al Nuke, Big Herk, Black Milk, Invincible, Finale, Slum Village, Monica Blaire, Yoshi, Whippa Whip, Quest McCody, Njia Kai, Raphael Johnson, Nick Speed, Mz Korona, Majestik, NFL players Lional Dalton and Chris Floyd, Wil Louchi Kulayd, Julius Curry, K Swade, Hood Hard DJ's, Core D.J's.

AND A MANY CITY OF DETROIT ORGANIZATIONS!

A Schedule of Events Include:

Thursday May 1st, 2008

    * 6:00-7:00pm Silence the Violence Rally:

Coleman A. Young Municipal Ctr. Downtown Detroit

Friday May 2nd, 2008

    * 8:45-9:45am Hip hop Speaks: Farwell Middle School

    * 10:15-12:00pm Hip hop Speaks: Martin Luther King Jr. High

    * 1:00-2:15pm Hip hop Speaks: Highland Park High School

    * 2:30-6:00pm Studio Interviews

Saturday May 3rd, 2008

    * 6:30am- 7:15 WDIV Television Morning Show

    * 8:30-10:30 Stop The Violence Walk Hart Riverfront

    * 10:30-12:00 City Official Luncheon-Steve's Soul Food

    * 1:00-6:30pm Detroit City Institutional Visits

    * 8:00pm-12am Hip hop Speaks Pioneers of Hip Hop Concert Fox Theater: Whodini, KRS-1, Doug E Fresh, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane, Sugar Hill Gang, & Kurtis Blow

Sunday May 4th, 2008

(TBD)

10:00pm-1:00pm- The Gospel of Hip Hop Speaks: Grandmaster Jay, Kurtis Blow

1:30-3PM  Final Call Luncheon

For further information or to volunteer your support for this historic event please contact True Infinity Solutionz :Marshell Lumas (313) 740-8677 or by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .