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UN to Host Global Hip Hop Summit
Thursday, October 20, 2005
By: Michael Ivey
 The first ever Global Hip Hop Summit takes place Thursday in The Newton Precinct of South Africa.
Residents and political activists will gather to weigh different issues pertinent to the hip hop community. The meetings serve as means to achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, one of which is youth empowerment. Of course a concert is apart of the event.
Guru, of the luminary hip hop duo Gangstar, joins artists from South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Bangladesh, and Cameroon for a show in Newton Park. Summit coordinator Sipho Sithole feels organizers have “literally gathered an impressive array of the genre’s most relevant voices who have taken ownership of the discussion on youth issues” and the event will be “fascinating, challenging and a real educational journey.” An international film festival is also apart of the summit.
Besides encouraging the youth, the UN seeks to eliminate extreme poverty and the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Global Hip Hop Summit begins Thursday and lasts through Friday.
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This is something hip-hop really needs! maybe it will remind everyone (rappers) just what our logical endeavors are as black people in the world. Real artists are more than just exponents and representatives; they are mostly compellers! and they move the crowd (to steal a verse from rakim), not the other way around! black artists should lead their people to higher grounds. Not oscillating in visions of ghetto grandeur. Hopefully this summit will be a turning point in the consciousness of hip-hop culture!