Hip-Hop is one of the major successes of music nation wide. Originating in the United States it is now listen to and created all over the world. Hip-Hop in different cultures uses a range of diverse instruments, languages, tradition, and styles. Outside of the United States most of the MC’s are more political, because the mainstream artists are activists. Hip-Hop allows the activist message to get across to people especially to the future generations.
The Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival was the first major global festival. It was held at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The festival was organized by Magee McIlvaine, DJ Magee, a senior at Trinity in International Studies. McIlvaine sees Hartford as a diverse place so it was the perfect place for the festival. Artists from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, India, Israel, Iraq, along with many other counties came out to represent. They performed about different issues ranging from Israeli/Palestinian hip-hop, gay and lesbian hip-hop, African hip-hop, to graffiti in the age of terrorism. Mexican rapper, Bocafloja, reflected on the festival by saying “It showed that even when we don’t speak the same language we can communicate through rhymes, beats, flows or energy. We are oppressed by the same system in different parts of the world, so our local experiences help a lot for a global strategy looking for social and political change.”
The festival allowed others to see how important hip-hop is internationally. Many times United States does not acknowledge everyday events in other countries when it is not affecting the United States. Hip-Hop makes others aware of what maybe going on in the country by listening to their music. Hip-Hop is a message conveyer.
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