Mayor Stanton broadcasts Hip Hop Day for Phoenix in honor of Arizona Hip Hop pageant - azcentral.com

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has declared Nov. 19 to be Hip Hop Day.(image: Phoenix mayor's office)

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has declared Hip Hop Day on Nov. 19 to have a good time the third annual Arizona Hip Hop festival, which takes region that equal day at Comerica Theatre in downtown Phoenix.

closing year, the event featured more than one hundred local hip-hop artists in a single day.

The mayor even tweeted out a photograph of himself with concert organizer Justus Samuel of admire the Underground after assembly to discuss the adventure, ending his tweet with the truly funny "(I aren't performing)."

"i'm definitely excited in regards to the festival," Stanton says. "I are aware of it's been going potent for a few years and it's gotten larger and larger. or not it's going to be greater than ever this 12 months. and that i'm a hip-hop fan myself, so i am excited to no longer best situation a proclamation aiding Justus Samuel and what he is trying to do, however to in my opinion attend."

The mayor is a hip-hop fan?

"well, I did develop up in the '80s," Stanton says. "And that was a big growth length for hip-hop, so there it's. if you go on my iPod at this time, you are going to see loads of De La Soul and Wu-Tang and A Tribe called Quest and a lot of the historic-school corporations."

Then, with amusing, Stanton provides, "I just dated myself. We're all stuck within the era of our youth -- our high-school years and 20s – for song, I wager."

in spite of what period Stanton listens to, he's still "a major fan of the artwork form."

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he's also keen on what Samual is doing with his pageant.

"i like the indisputable fact that an ambitious guy like Justus has put this all collectively and he's starting to construct extra neighborhood guide, greater company assist. it be a extremely high quality thing for downtown Phoenix and the metropolis. I in fact relate to him. He grew up in the same a part of the metropolis as I did, form of up in northwest Phoenix. I went to Cortez. he is a Shadow Mountain child. And he actually likes to support younger, up-and-coming artists, undiscovered artists, give them a shot. i love the fact that it be a hip-hop pageant the place there's gonna be an open mic. there is gonna be competitions at quite a lot of native excessive faculties, providing talented youngsters a chance to exhibit their art. i used to be to look him and the festival prevail."

The mayor has no plans to take potential of that open mic, but has he ever rapped?

"Have I rapped or have I rapped smartly?" Stanton responds, with amusing, before admitting, "in the shower, within the morning, of route. When i'm listening to my old-faculty hip-hop agencies. I've got to replace my iPod certainly one of at the moment."

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