Krip-Hop Institute

We Are More Than Just Music.

To spread awareness about the history, arts, and the "isms" facing musicians with disabilities. We are especially driven to getting the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators. Krip-Hop Nation has put out CDs, held conferences and spoke on issues from police brutality against people with disabilities to ableism in Hip-Hop, media, and in our communities.

FORMER HOME OF KRIP-HOP NATION: ABOUT KRIP-HOP NATION: The Krip-Hop Nation is a worldwide association of artists with disabilities. Founded in 2000 by Leroy F. Moore Jr. in Berkeley, California, the Movement campaigns for equality for people with disabilities worldwide with concerts, tours, workshops and much more. It is important to us to be seen as artists and musicians who do their thing seriously, purposefully and professionally. We want to show, that a person with a disability also has the right to equal opportunities, that nobody has to hide, that a person with a disability can also discover their talents, promote them and live them out and thus be a valuable part of society. According to our understanding of inclusion, this is exactly what this means: that the focus is on people with their skills and abilities, not their disabilities. We do not want pity, we want consideration, equality, respect and recognition to the same extent that every physically and mentally healthy person enjoys them. We are constantly looking for partners, supporters and sponsorships. Many forms of cooperation would be conceivable: from concerts, appearances at congresses, meetings and other events, workshops and music productions to financial support as an official partner and sponsor of the Krip-Hop Nation. Of course, we are also open to any suggestion from outside that makes constructive cooperation possible. We would be delighted if you would give our mission a moment of your benevolent attention and see whether you could envision working with us.

The Next Stage

It’s never too early to plan the next stage in your life. As a 57 year old, Black disabled, graduate student at UCLA , I will be approaching my last year in my ph.d. studies in anthropology starting in the fall of 2025. A year ago I made a big decision to stay in Los Angeles to build the Krip-Hop Institute before the Olympics and Paralympics come to LA in 2028. During my UCLA years and even before, Krip-Hop Nation always had and still has strong ties to many countries in Africa especially South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda and the Republic of Congo. However in 2016 when Krip-Hop Nation had a chance to co organized and implement what Simon Manda of South Africa and I called, A Journey to The South where we would visit disabled artists in ten cities in South Africa and of course one of those cities was Cape Town, that I fell in love with.

Well it’s funny how things come back around because in the last six months, Cape Town, South Africa came up again when I connected to a Black disabled poet from Cape Town, reconnecting with an old friend that is living in LA and is from South Africa, his name, Kelvin Sauls and on top of all of that I found out that University of Cape Town has a Disability Studies department. In the last couple of months I’ve been talking to the chair of the Disability Studies department about visiting and a possibility of doing a postdoctoral there under the vision of building a Krip-Hop Institute there in Cape Town.

It seems like the higher power wants me to go to Africa because my abstract for a presentation on Krip-Hop Nation and our work in Africa was accepted for the annual conference, “Anthropology and the Black Experience,” in Dakar, Senegal that is in May and also been invited to present at University of Cape Town in South Africa and to talk more about the possibility of a postdoctoral position there!

So Africa is calling and who knows, is this my next stage after my last year of my Ph.d. aka the 2025-2026 school year and finishing my dissertation ?

Update of Leroy’s Journey for Krip-Hop in Africa from Dakar, Senegal to Cape Town, South Africa May 14-24/25

Thanks to all my supporters and donors!

I just bought two of three tickets:

From LAX to Dakar, Senegal May 13-18 housing is provided and
Dakar, Senegal to Cape Town, South Africa, May 19- 24 housing, looking at:

All Africa House
43 Stanley Road
Middle Campus
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7701
South Africa

Link

The last ticket:

Cape Town, South Africa to LAX will be purchased by April 25th/25.

Krip-Hop Nation/Leroy Moore is raising funds to get to the 2025 annual Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) 2025 spring conference, “Anthropology and the Black Experience,” in Dakar, West Africa downtown on May 14-18, 2025 present not only on Krip-Hop Nation’s work in Africa but it’s all based upon the work of a Black disabled anthropologist, the late John Langston Gwaltney and his book, The Dissenters: Voices From Contemporary America. As a Black disabled man the work of John Langston Gwaltney is so important especially for Black disabled people in our communities and worldwide.

Why I travel

After the conference in Dakar I’ll make my way to the University of Cape Town to present to students and professors about my studies and work. My topics that I’m planning to present at both the conference in Dakar, Senegal and at the University of Cape Town are Hip-Hop, Disability and the building of Krip-Hop Institutes globally, especially focusing on Krip-Hop chapters in Africa. And the possibility of a postdoctoral position at University of Cape Town in South Africa…

A special thanks to UCLA Disability Studies who not only donated but also put my request in their email newsletter!

Link to donate

Thank you all and stay tuned!

Leroy F. Moore
UCLA graduate student
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation

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Krip-Hop Nation Chapters Forming

How to form a Krip-Hop Nation’s chapter:

Look over Krip-Hop Nation’s history, mission, goals and achievements on their website to see if you agree.
Watch Krip-Hop Nation’s videos on YouTube.
Discuss with your people to see if more than you are interested in becoming a Krip-Hop Nation’s chapter and what make sense where you are.
Get in contact with Leroy Moore through social media or email him at Kriphopnation@gmail.com.
Leroy will set up a time to meet over zoom or other video chat to talk about becoming an official Krip-Hop chapter.
After becoming a chapter, Krip-Hop will stay in contact with you to see how are you doing and how the chapter can plug into the work of Krip-Hop Nation’s work internationally. We will create an official document saying you are now a chapter of Krip-Hop Nation. This document will be email to you.

Benefits of Becoming A Chapter of Krip-Hop Nation

Be part of Krip-Hop media including, radio show, social network posts, upcoming Krip-Hop television channel
Krip-Hop Nation Institutes – Main institute in California and satellite offices at our chapters
Be creators of festivals and other events
Share resources
Be part of an international network fights and creating artistic collaborations and our rights
To create friendships and and support for each other
To rise funds for the chapters and to tackle discrimination towards people with disabilities
To help to bring our artistic expression, legal rights to mainstream media, political arena, art world and locally our communities

Krip-Hop Chapters

Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA: Leroy Moore / Germany: Binki Woi / South Africa: Simon Manda & Looks Matoto / Tanzania: Archy Nathaniel / Gomba:

Prudence Mabhena / Zimbabwe: Billy Saga / Brazil: King Montana / New Mexico: Luc Lusumba / Congo: Jake Spain / And More.

About Krip-Hop Institute

At Krip-Hop Institute, we envision a society where all cultural expression, whether it be mainstreamed or underground, in today’s unprecedented political social unrest, be embraced for what it is. Ideally , disabled Black artists will be positively adhered to. It is critical that the present and future disabled artists, especially Black/Brown disabled cultural workers, thinkers, and writers are studied from an anthropological non-ethnocentric perspective. We need to honor those that came before us. KHI will do this through our communities both locally and internationally, all the while making the unique contribution of having a community space to gather, perform music, learn about and display the arts, exploration of political history and current environmental educational resources.

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