*Amherst Hip Hop Club Event Planning Guidelines, Responsibilities, and Tasks To Complete*

*Amherst Hip Hop Club Event Planning Guidelines, Responsibilities, and Tasks To Complete*

In my time at Amherst, a major part has been spent planning and holding events. During these long hours of work, I at times wish there were a list of things, a checklist to go through that would make event planning and hosting easier. Here is that checklist now!

So, this document is general guidelines, responsibilities, and tasks to consider or complete when planning an event. We at the HHC hope that this document makes the event planning process easier for everyone. Events should be planned a month in advance from the time of the event. Create a checklist for everything you will need to make your event a success. This is meant to be a general guidelines for planning and event and usually a lot more goes into making an event successful.

Kanye’s Best: Expression of the Self in Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool

By Eli Schultz
Edited by Kali Robinson


August 20th, 2015

Racism, immigration, rape, child soldiers, and the military industrial complex: all topics Lupe Fiasco weaves into complex metaphors and channels through multiple characters in his 2007 album The Cool. Lupe’s magnum opus enjoyed notable success upon release, garnering generally positive reviews. Three years later, Kanye West released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to much greater critical acclaim. It earned an elusive 10/10 rating from Pitchfork, while The Cool received only an 8.1. While Lupe tells stories in the third-person, Kanye’s career album was unabashedly self-centered and introspective.


Why would critics and rap fans prefer a chart-topping sixty-eight minutes of auto-tuned braggadocio to Lupe’s sociopolitically charged triple and quadruple-entendres?

Get Inspired with Kendrick Lamar

Written by Kali Robinson



Kendrick Lamar has recently partnered with Reebok to produce this powerful video of Kendrick and the youth of Compton, LA. The video captures Kendrick in his element, rapping the word of his hometown. Kendrick inspires his youth audience with a voice that is revolutionary, familiar to a black experience, and very loving all at once. He spits bars in the video like:
"That boy remind me of a young Martin Luther the way he picks up troopers and rounds up shooters like Malcolm X did"
After seeing the video, I was struck with the desire to look deeper into what Kendrick was about in his music, and decided to write this piece.

Don't Bite Daddy (DBD VOL. 2 Video)

What's up beautiful people. So I had been doing my normal perusing of the internet, and while checking out my friend's Facebook wall I chanced upon this incredible video by Don't Bite Daddy youtube channel. The video features the NYC Freddie Gray protests, skaters Adam Zhu, and Tommy St. Germain, as well as music from Denzel Curry and more including Amherst's very own DJ Lucas. Shout out to him. Check it out: