Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a project with The Blackbird Elements, a group coordinated by Tou SaiKo Lee and featuring a number of the best young Hmong MCs the Twin Cities have to offer. Their debut mixtape dropped this week, and here’s a little video I put together for the occassion. Plans are to do a longer video on the group, so watch for much, much more soon.
From the mixtape’s notes:
The Blackbird Elements project is a fresh movement to bring visibility and elevate Hmong MCs that strive to make an impact through Hip-Hop music with words that move, inspire, and connect and “save” elements of Hmong heritage, history, honor hip-hop culture.
The first step for this movement is a Mix CD project that includes at least one song from every MC or MC crew that have met all the requirements of the Blackbird Elements project process.
This CD brings together MCs with the potential to move hip-hop forward by representing genuine experiences of the Hmong people in Minnesota.
For more information, see http://www.myspace.com/blackbirdelements
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