FCC Hip Hop Workshop and fans

Break dancer

Break dancer, mid-air

Graffiti art

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Last Wednesday at 4:20 p.m. (apparently, irony was intentional) The Bayliens “landed,” and turned Dwinelle Hall’s largest auditorium into a makeshift hip-hop concert venue. The beat bumped as a crowd of students trying to knock out their American Cultures breadth requirement shimmied awkwardly in their places at the behest of rather foxy Social/Cultural Anthropology professor, Laura Hubbard. Other students remained seated, unconvincingly pretending that they were simply too “indie” to admit that it was hella better (and fresher, for that matter) than any normal lecture.

After the rousing performance from the energetic Bay Area-based, non-hyphy hip hop quartet, DJ True Justice, Spacemancell, Enzyme Dynamite, and Jay3 sat down to tackle probing anthropological questions from the audience, like “How do you think that hip-hop as a subculture perpetuates or caters to racialization in the youth sphere?” This and other questions proved, once again, that we here at Berkeley can make absolutely anything sound nerdy. Go Bears!

Image Source: Jill Cowan
The Bayliens [Myspace]