PROJECT WEST: Webisode #1 The First Meeting

Project West: Webisode #1 highlights the first community meeting of Project West: Secrets of West Coast Hip Hop. This is 15 minutes of a 3 hour meeting. Project West: Secrets Of West Coast Hip Hop-- is a museum exhibit, film festival, and cultural event, celebrating West Coast Hip Hop Culture. Slated for Fall of 2013 at the Mayme A. Clayton Libray @ Museum in Culver City California. PROJECT WEST is a museum exhibit, with film and street festival components, that explores the synthesis of dance, music, art and "street culture" from various communities, from California to Washington state, into the movement now known as west coast hip-hop. This exhibit charts the west coast's separate but equal narrative with origins in funk and the dance scenes of the 70's, all the way to gangsta rap's dramatic rise in the 90's, on its way to becoming pop culture's most dominant influence worldwide. Through a partnership with the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum and Ultra Wave Media, this exhibit will look at west coast dance, rap, dj'ing, graffiti, fashion, and cinema styles from a historical perspective. The curators mash the digital storytelling of the YouTube video-game generation with "old school", hands-on production styles. Visitors to this highly interactive exhibit can catch film screenings, panel discussions, workshops, tours, and even a street festival. Hip-Hop's generation gap will be bridged as the "old skool" pioneers educate their "new skool" pupils about how things really were, back in the day. Project West: The Secret History Of West Coast Hip Hop-- will be told primarily through the people who witnessed the evolution firsthand using archival footage, photographs, music, music videos and interviews with experts, trailblazers, stars, scholars, music industry executives and journalists -- many of whom will be speaking for the first time about west coast Hip Hop culture. As a result, the exhibit will blaze new territory, with both fresh and familiar faces, articulating an idiosyncratic west coast perspective that for too long has been ignored within mainstream hip-hop.