Hip-Hop Parents & Their Disabled Children: Charity or Activism?

Like any parents, White, Black, movie stars, athletes and Hip-Hop parents have and will experience having children with disabilities and as a Black disabled man who loves music and entertainment...

Leroy Moore April 14, 2023 Hip-Hop History, Relationships, Thought Subject

Dear Bushwick Bill

Dear Bushwick Bill, Krip-Hop Nation here. How did we miss you? We tried but were you ready to join, to be the many except the one of a few? You...

Leroy Moore March 15, 2023 Hip-Hop History, Thought Subject

The Poetry Center Hosts Krip-Hop Nation

By: Sarah Bruno, Copy Editor SF State’s Poetry Center and the Longmore Institute on Disability co-hosted Krip-Hop Nation, an activist group of musicians with disabilities via Zoom on Saturday. The...

Leroy Moore February 8, 2023 Hip-Hop History

Krip-Hop Nation 2023, Twenty Two Years Ago, The Origin Story

San Francisco and New York helped to create Krip-Hop Nation. In 2001 after closing my non-profit, getting deeper to poetry and lyric writing once again I was interested with the...

Leroy Moore January 9, 2023 Hip-Hop History

Disability Justice: More Of A Link To Black Arts/Thought Movement Than The Disability Rights Movement

(Photo by: Sins Invalid) I think early Disability Justice, DJ, looks more like the Black Arts/Thought than anything else before DJ was kidnapped. I was there among others! Knowing that...

Leroy Moore January 4, 2023 Hip-Hop History, Thought Subject

Did Shock G’s Humpty Hump Have A Disability

Shock G from the Hip-Hop group, Digital Underground created his alter ego character named Humpty Hump in 1990 looking back on it was Humpty Hump, the character and dance poking...

Leroy Moore December 12, 2022 Hip-Hop History, Thought Subject

Canes In Black Music/Performances

From early Blues to the boy bands of the eighties to Snoop Doggy Dog’s pimp outfit with a cane to the car accident of Biggie Smalls who turned his walking...

Leroy Moore November 6, 2022 Hip-Hop History, Thought Subject