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EXPRESSIONS FROM THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY
Writing by
jessica Care moore
Khalid el-Hakim
Invincible & Jenny Lee/Detroit Summer
Introduction by Julie Chang
soft cover, saddle-stitch
24 pages, 11 x 7.5"
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"Melamid's choice of content for the series of paintings in Holy Hip-Hop! reflects a rare opportunity for the dialogue of contemporary visual arts to share the stage with musical recording artists. In pursuit of this investigation, MOCAD invited important members of the Detroit arts and activist community to expand in free-form some of the more intimate observations of the hip hop community: Khalid el Hakim, jessica Care moore, and Invincible. The result is the addendum to the exhibition catalog that includes, respectively, an essay, a poem and a spoken word lyric.

Whereas for Melamid, as Francine Prose points out in her essay for the catalog, "these new paintings are clearly the product of a long fascination with the permutations and conjunctions of art and power, spirituality and commodification," for these three artists/activists, their direct contact and experience within the hip hop community provide a story different than the one the media often constructs. The power of these expressions clearly conveys a sense of the dense layers of culture and politics this hugely influential movement has created in its wake."

-- from the introduction by Julie Chang

jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore is a poetic force to be reckoned with. A native of Detroit, she is the CEO of Moore Black Press Publishing. An Apollo Legend, she is the author to the best-selling poetry collections, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth and the forthcoming title and solo-theater show, God is Not an American. She has been featured on Nas's Album, Nastradamus and has shared stages with Hip Hop artists, such as, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, KRS 1, Public Enemy, Common, along with legendary artists, George Clinton, Gil Scott Herron, Roy Ayers and The Last Poets. She has performed her poems all over the world for over a decade. She is the proud mother of a 16 month old son, King Thomas and happy to be back home in the D!!
www.mooreblackpress.com
www.myspace.com/jessicacaremoore

Khalid el-Hakim
Khalid el-Hakim is the founder and curator of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum. A dynamic young educator with over 10 years experience in Detroit Public Schools, he received his Bachelors of Science in social studies and business education at Ferris State University. As a music exec he has managed various artists including 2006 Grammy award nominee Umar Bin Hassan, platinum award-winning artist Proof of D12, 3rd Eye Open Poetry Collective and Versiz. His passion for education and history led him to start collecting Black memorabilia 15 years ago. Named The Bell Collection (after his family), this award-winning collection of over 1,500 artifacts date from slavery to hip hop culture. The Bell Collection will be the featured collection in the Black History 101 Mobile Museum.

Invicible and Jenny Lee/Detroit Summer
"Detroit Summer is a multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit, working to transform ourselves and our communities by confronting the problems we face with creativity and critical thinking. Detroit Summer organizes youth-led media arts projects and community-wide potlucks, speak-outs and parties."
www.detroitsummer.org

This publications is included with the purchase of the catalogue Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid or it can be purchased individually.