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I'm teaching my 2nd online course, "Filipin@ America through hip hop"! Let's do this! #UHManoa #EthnicStudies #EmpireOfFunk

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Having fun at FutureArtsNow in San Jose on Oct 30. Many thanks to Filipino American National Historical Society- Santa Clara Valley Chapter for hosting us. 

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The Filipino American National Historical Society - Santa Clara Valley Chapter in partnership with Future Arts Now will be celebrating Filipino American History Month with a book signing, panel and hip-hop exhibition of Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America

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Will you be the one to win this signed book? Write a creative love letter (poetic or rap form is acceptable) for our website and you could win a signed copy and meet the contributors in the Bay Area or Los Angeles! Visit: http://empireoffunk.com/?page_id=159

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HKR - 09 - 29 - 14 Empire Of Funk Pt1 Mixdown 1

In time for Filipino American History Month, Davey D interviews Empire of Funk editors DJ Kuttin Kandi and Mark Villegas and contributing artist Leo Esclamado for Hard Knock Radio. What an honor!

Please listen if you want to be plugged in with this ongoing conversation!

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Having fun transcribing from the Empire of Funk conference and interviews. Navy base pin@ys will resonate with many of these statements by Geo: "It wasn’t until high school that I started interacting with the greater Filipino community outside of the Filipinos who live or work around military bases. And found out that, yall some different muthafuckers. You don’t have I.D. cards, you know. You use different language, like jargon. Yall don’t know how to—if I say like 2100 hours right now, you won’t know what the fuck I’m talking about. You know, bagging groceries when you’re a teenager, things like that. Getting things tax-free at the Navy Exchange." "Meaning, like, there was always a new student in class. I swear to God, like every week somebody just left, and somebody else—and it was always exciting like, “Ah shit, who is the new cute girl that’s over here. Oh she from Cali. Oh word? Yeah, yeah. Her brother’s a bboy.” And then next thing you know, we were like, “Oh shit, yo dude got mixtapes and VHS tapes of bboy battles that’s going on down in Cerritos and West Covina.”" "This whole translocal thing is very much—if that wasn’t built into my community and my upbringing, I don’t know if I would even got to this point where I’m sitting in front of yall, or even had made an album. It was really like—I remember the—it was somebody that moved up from California in 1993 when I was in seventh grade who had a cassette tape—a Mastaplann cassette tape, and that was the first time I ever saw like, “Holy shit, there’s other Filipino dudes that’s actually rappin and putting out music like this?” That was crazy because until then it was just like something that we did in our house parties and garages and things like that. And that started opening my mind to like, wow, there’s really—there’s “us’s” in other places. " 

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"The Empire of Funk conference convened last Friday in Humanities Gateway, drawing attendees from across the nation and across generations of Filipino-Americans involved in hip-hop.

Phuc Pham | New University

“Hip-hop is integral to Filipino-American culture,” Mark Villegas, a current UC Irvine doctoral candidate in culture and theory, said.

He continued to say that the conversation surrounding Filipinos and hip-hop is one that’s often talked about informally, but seldom acknowledged as a legitimate phenomenon.