Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, October 21, 2010
P4P Fall 2010 Blanket Drive: The Saga Continues!
In 2007 as well as in 2008, P4P hosted events geared towards teaching young people they can make a difference in the Austin community with small acts of kindness. For 2010 P4P is going to host a blanket drive. More information is coming soon on this event, but in the meantime, let us share with you our complete documentation on our previous community outreach events:
2007 There is H.O.P.E. in Hip Hop - P4P with the River City Youth Foundation united forces with local hip hop artists across the United States to feed and clothe the less fortunate. We gave away 20 Care Packages & fed over 40 people! Here is visual documentation from that awesome Sept 1, 2007 weekend:
Our youth are our NOW not our future. This young one exclaims "This is FUN!" after prepar ing 20 care packages for the less fortunate with P4P for the "There IS H.O.P.E. in Hip Hop feeding event that took place at the Co-Op Bar in Austin, TX on Saturday, September 1, 2007:
RCYF Prepares Care Packages - September 1, 2007
P4P | Myspace Video
RCYF Prepares Care Packages - September 1, 2007
P4P | Myspace Video
P4P received over $3500 in donations from private donors for clothes and personal grooming items for the care packages and food. Our sponsors, XClusive Clothing and Blank Description rapper Kam Kutta, both from Atlanta, GA came down to Austin, TX to video the event. Kam Kutta edited the final video that features the Destiny by Design co-founder Jules who provided the less fortunate with manicures:
In 2008, P4P joined forces with Destiny by Design, The Boys & Girls Club and the 35 South Riddaz Motorcycle Club to support A.R.C.H./Front Steps by contributing blankets to help the less fortunate:
Sunday, August 22, 2010
P4P Supports Public Offenders
As taken from their websites:
PO Members for FY2011 are:
Yolanda Zapata* YOLI ..Y.our O.wn L.yrical I.mpress
Drailand Bell LYRIC* the LYRICAL felon
Damien Williams* PHENOMENAL VENOM
Quincy Ockletree* BLACK PROPHET the Ghost
PUBLIC OFFENDERS stands for Poverty United Building Love in Inner Cities Our Future For Every Nation Does Effect Reality Situations- we strive to educate and unite people with our music and words. We don't "offend" the public- only those that do not accept the truth.
We have been together since high school and have very strong bonds with each other. Our shared experiences allow us to have a rare chemistry and a charismatic presence on stage. Our music addresses overcoming issues like domestic violence, police brutality and other forms of oppression. We talk about our experiences and inspire others to positive action. We mix in a variety of songs that are about all the good things in life as well. We rhyme to address the social and political issues that affect us most.
We have been together since high school and have very strong bonds with each other. Our shared experiences allow us to have a rare chemistry and a charismatic presence on stage. Our music addresses overcoming issues like domestic violence, police brutality and other forms of oppression. We talk about our experiences and inspire others to positive action. We mix in a variety of songs that are about all the good things in life as well. We rhyme to address the social and political issues that affect us most.
We are unique in that we perform in clubs, schools, conferences, theaters and many community events. We tailor our performances to the event and often end up spending a long time speaking to the fans after the show. They always want to know not only more about us but the issues we confront. We perform at least 5 times a month and are leaders in bringing attention to the Austin hip hop scene. Two of our members are Under21 spoken word winners as well.
We are all community activists and work with youth on a regular basis. We live and breathe our music and are dedicated to making our dreams a reality.
For more info on Public Offenders, check out SonicBids
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Destiny by Design Featured on DIDDYBLOG
Diddy features a lot of articles of inspiration on his blog. Austin's own Destiny by Design even provided Mr. Combs substance to share to his worldwide audience. Destiny by Design, in cooperation with AISD Citizen Schools, focuses on culture and career development opportunities within hip-hop.
Teaming with volunteers, including myself, the Destiny by Design kids were able to utilize their creativity to produce, write, and record their own song.
Check out Diddy's blog entry BELIEVE | DIDDYBLOG
or view the video here created by Luxury Mindz:
Teaming with volunteers, including myself, the Destiny by Design kids were able to utilize their creativity to produce, write, and record their own song.
Check out Diddy's blog entry BELIEVE | DIDDYBLOG
or view the video here created by Luxury Mindz:
Monday, August 16, 2010
P4P Supports The Cipher Austin
P4P believes in our nation's youth. We start building and empowering in our own backyard here in Austin, TX. The Cipher Austin is one of the organizations we will be promoting through our own marketing resource, YEM Promotions, the marketing division of 1205 Productions.
Below is info about The Cipher Austin taken from their Facebook Causes profile:
The Cipher’s mission is to build a community of young leaders and engaged hip-hop artists. We help them use their voice and leadership for positive social change. The creative expression and public performances encouraged in "The Cipher" produce a group of confident and involved young people. Through the program these teens not only have the opportunity to learn about the music industry, but they also are taught valuable life skills such as teamwork, commitment, and techniques for modeling healthy relationships. The members of the Cipher leave the program empowered, authentic and connected to the Austin music industry. The program provides these young people with a positive learning experience, allowing them to gain new skills and competencies, as well as build self-esteem, improve academic performance and expand possibilities for their futures.
Like any non-profit organization, The Cipher Austin actively seeks funding and donations from the community it serves.
We start our twice a week meetings in September, we need to pay for writing supplies, meal donations, insurance, cds, artwork, money for community events and to pay for the instructor as he engages these youth in sociopolitical and personal discussions 6 hours a week throughout the year. We also do a lot of work around housing, school, jobs, legal maters and building healthy relationships as they move through The Cipher. This process will culminate in another album and even more young people will be engaged and empowered. Please help by providing a meal donation or a financial contribution.
To make a secure, tax-deductible donation, please click the link below. You will be transferred to The Cipher Austin's website where you can use PayPal in order to complete a secure transaction.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Urban Renewal The Building of Minds
Recap from 2007: Urban Renewal The Building of Minds
Part I
(I wake up every morning at 6:30 a.m. to my cell alarm playing "That Girl" by Frankie J, pop out my bed like the last 4 hours of sleep was sufficient, and make coffee – strong coffee while the news informs me of what I probably need to put on. Within the next hour I have checked both my personal and business email accounts from my cell phone and added three to four more assignments to my never ending "To do" list. My day has just started...)
I live less than a football field away from IH-35. East IH-35 to be exact. No fresh spring air around here, boo. You can't get more urban than that. Yeah, I got birds with nicely hidden nests chirping when I become conscious of the new day but that's quickly drowned out by the sounds of the morning rush hour traffic. If I can't hear a busy street when I step outside then I'm out of my element. That rustle and bustle noise is essential since my mind is consistently in grind-mode. My urban lifestyle is consumed with every effort I can make to walk through the next opened door that will allow me greater resources.
What goes around comes around faster in the city. No small deed goes unnoticed in my hood. It may be quickly forgotten but never unnoticed. I have to give a lot to get a little and with the way today's "To do's" are looking – Karma is still my best friend. I'm used to taking what I got and working with it. I got a good grip on getting things done on my own without having to ask too many folks for help. I'm an independent, female hip-hop emcee. My production company, 1205 Productions, is a sole-proprietorship. Meaning if I don't do it nobody else will. This includes financing every venture pursued within my company from releasing albums and booking/managing artists to coordinating events and travel arrangements for speaking engagements. Stepping on toes is inevitable.
My goal isn't fame but the building of minds – a sort of mental "urban renewal" in the way generations under me process their thoughts. If the Texas educational system knew "street knowledge" is just as essential as book knowledge I'd easily be a certified salaried teacher. As a player in this male dominated, indie music chess match, every move I make determines my outcome. Since my life is comprised of many wins and losses, I feel that the wisdom or "game" learned is to be taught and sold. Everybody doesn't share my mission so toes do get stepped on. Karma showed me years ago that it isn't what I do, its how I do it. So, I got some aspirin if anyone needs it.
My homeboy Element 7D told me that time is the only real currency in existence. The game that was spit that day made me more conservative of my time. Let me be the one to tell you that I spend every minute on the grind multi-tasking. My real advantage is that I've mastered that skill. Forget two, I've figured the most efficient ways to kill five birds with one stone now. By the time two o'clock hits my list is ¾'s of the way accomplished and I've started tomorrow's list.
See I play this mixtape cd by Mddl Fngz, a gangster rap group created by Pimp C and Bun B on UGK Records, to maintain a certain mentality. I chose this genre about making money and staying sucker free because I have to run every aspect of my small-business and failure isn't an option. They influence me to believe procrastinating can easily set me back a season or two and so can toxic people. They stress that I need to have the sense to know this and avoid it. I agree with them that poverty isn't a joke so it is mandatory that I produce hot products and keep key players on a higher level than mine in my circle, just as they advise. Damn, that's real talk! With the odds stacked against me I continue to check off items on my list. Mindful of Karma encircling me, I stay on watch for any opportunity for me to put the benefit of our friendship to motion by giving out the game I take in.
Six p.m. is when my free minutes start and I'm almost on that twelfth hour wind down. By now I've forgotten whatever I accomplished yesterday because tomorrow's to-do list is looking promising. I pull up to the Chicken Store on Loyola and bump into an old homegirl who hasn't seen me in years. She asks me how I'm doing and I tell her, "Doing it big, lil mama." She has seen various promo materials with my name and face on them so she already knows. I ask her the same thing only to hear her say, "I'm trying to make it, girl, you know how it is. Just maintaining." I show her my winning smile and spit game. "Lil mama, its 2007. We're not trying to do nothing no more, you're either doing it or you ain't." I see the light bulb brighten over her head. She received the game when she heard it. The stare of self-realization is priceless. "Already!" she exclaims.
Mission accomplished. I gotta renew one urban mind at a time. And that's the reality of my lifestyle, boo.
Part I
(I wake up every morning at 6:30 a.m. to my cell alarm playing "That Girl" by Frankie J, pop out my bed like the last 4 hours of sleep was sufficient, and make coffee – strong coffee while the news informs me of what I probably need to put on. Within the next hour I have checked both my personal and business email accounts from my cell phone and added three to four more assignments to my never ending "To do" list. My day has just started...)
I live less than a football field away from IH-35. East IH-35 to be exact. No fresh spring air around here, boo. You can't get more urban than that. Yeah, I got birds with nicely hidden nests chirping when I become conscious of the new day but that's quickly drowned out by the sounds of the morning rush hour traffic. If I can't hear a busy street when I step outside then I'm out of my element. That rustle and bustle noise is essential since my mind is consistently in grind-mode. My urban lifestyle is consumed with every effort I can make to walk through the next opened door that will allow me greater resources.
What goes around comes around faster in the city. No small deed goes unnoticed in my hood. It may be quickly forgotten but never unnoticed. I have to give a lot to get a little and with the way today's "To do's" are looking – Karma is still my best friend. I'm used to taking what I got and working with it. I got a good grip on getting things done on my own without having to ask too many folks for help. I'm an independent, female hip-hop emcee. My production company, 1205 Productions, is a sole-proprietorship. Meaning if I don't do it nobody else will. This includes financing every venture pursued within my company from releasing albums and booking/managing artists to coordinating events and travel arrangements for speaking engagements. Stepping on toes is inevitable.
My goal isn't fame but the building of minds – a sort of mental "urban renewal" in the way generations under me process their thoughts. If the Texas educational system knew "street knowledge" is just as essential as book knowledge I'd easily be a certified salaried teacher. As a player in this male dominated, indie music chess match, every move I make determines my outcome. Since my life is comprised of many wins and losses, I feel that the wisdom or "game" learned is to be taught and sold. Everybody doesn't share my mission so toes do get stepped on. Karma showed me years ago that it isn't what I do, its how I do it. So, I got some aspirin if anyone needs it.
My homeboy Element 7D told me that time is the only real currency in existence. The game that was spit that day made me more conservative of my time. Let me be the one to tell you that I spend every minute on the grind multi-tasking. My real advantage is that I've mastered that skill. Forget two, I've figured the most efficient ways to kill five birds with one stone now. By the time two o'clock hits my list is ¾'s of the way accomplished and I've started tomorrow's list.
See I play this mixtape cd by Mddl Fngz, a gangster rap group created by Pimp C and Bun B on UGK Records, to maintain a certain mentality. I chose this genre about making money and staying sucker free because I have to run every aspect of my small-business and failure isn't an option. They influence me to believe procrastinating can easily set me back a season or two and so can toxic people. They stress that I need to have the sense to know this and avoid it. I agree with them that poverty isn't a joke so it is mandatory that I produce hot products and keep key players on a higher level than mine in my circle, just as they advise. Damn, that's real talk! With the odds stacked against me I continue to check off items on my list. Mindful of Karma encircling me, I stay on watch for any opportunity for me to put the benefit of our friendship to motion by giving out the game I take in.
Six p.m. is when my free minutes start and I'm almost on that twelfth hour wind down. By now I've forgotten whatever I accomplished yesterday because tomorrow's to-do list is looking promising. I pull up to the Chicken Store on Loyola and bump into an old homegirl who hasn't seen me in years. She asks me how I'm doing and I tell her, "Doing it big, lil mama." She has seen various promo materials with my name and face on them so she already knows. I ask her the same thing only to hear her say, "I'm trying to make it, girl, you know how it is. Just maintaining." I show her my winning smile and spit game. "Lil mama, its 2007. We're not trying to do nothing no more, you're either doing it or you ain't." I see the light bulb brighten over her head. She received the game when she heard it. The stare of self-realization is priceless. "Already!" she exclaims.
Mission accomplished. I gotta renew one urban mind at a time. And that's the reality of my lifestyle, boo.
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