North Carolina rapper Rapsody salutes the group on the Dreamville Music Pageant April 6, 2019, at Dix Park. Rapsody is ready to carry out in Chapel Hill April 22, 2022, as a part of the Hip-Hop South Pageant.
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Triangle hip-hop followers can rejoice — a Chapel Hill music competition will carry huge names and greater performances to the area this weekend.
The inaugural Hip-Hop South Festival will see native artists and award-winning skills take to the stage on Friday and Saturday, with notable performances by Grammy-nominated NC rapper Rapsody and Grammy Award winner Huge Boi, previously of OutKast.
Right here’s every part it is advisable to know.
The fundamentals
The competition comes as a part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Performing Arts’ Southern Futures initiative, which goals to advertise and produce cultural work and analysis on social justice, racial fairness and the South.
The Hip-Hop South Pageant will have a good time “the influence of hip-hop throughout the South,” organizers stated on the occasion web site.
It was co-curated by Christopher Massenburg and Regina Bradley, each of whom are fellows with Harvard College’s Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship program.
Along with musical performances, the competition will carry “educational gatherings, late-night beat and dance battles, visible artwork and extra” to the world.
The competition will maintain its headline performances at 6 p.m. every day.
On Friday, April 22 the present will happen at Cat’s Cradle, a music venue at 301 E. Fundamental St., Carrboro. The subsequent day, the primary present might be at Memorial Corridor on UNC’s campus.
Late night time occasions will proceed at 10 p.m. each days, held on the CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio at 123 W. Franklin St.
These attending Friday performances ought to word that Cat’s Cradle requires attendees to put on a masks and convey proof they’re absolutely vaccinated towards COVID-19 or have examined damaging for the virus within the prior 72 hours.
The lineup
Friday
The principle present will characteristic a number of NC locals, with performances by Rapsody, Shirlette Ammons and Carolina Waves.
Rapsody is initially from Snow Hill, whereas Shirlette Ammons is a Durham-based poet and musician.
Carolina Waves, an award-winning, multi-platform model, promotes aspiring and unbiased artists.
Friday’s late night time occasion will characteristic Flip It Unfastened, Vol. 3 with the Raleigh Rockers, a dance competitors.
Saturday
This lineup will see different artists from the area and the South come to Chapel Hill.
It would characteristic a efficiency by Huge Boi, a Grammy Award-winning rapper, songwriter and document producer, who gained important acclaim as a part of the southern hip hop duo OutKast.
Sa-Roc and Radio Rehab will even carry out on the Saturday present.
The late night time occasion will characteristic a beat battle with Soundtrak, Kash, Amp, and E.Jones of The Soul Council, which was fashioned by Triangle-based producer ninth Marvel.
Open to the general public
Any member of the general public also can attend Bradley’s “Soiled South Scribes” exhibit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Friday and Saturday on the CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio.
As a part of the competition, a brand new mural in downtown Chapel Hill by native artist Artie Barkdale celebrates hip-hop historical past at 108 Henderson St., on the aspect of Imbibe restaurant and Zog’s bar. Its location is close to the positioning of The Hideaway, a former hip-hop membership and “key cease on the Southern hip-hop circuit within the early 2000s,” organizers stated.
How you can go
Tickets can be found at carolinaperformingarts.org at a variety of costs.
Friday tickets:
- Fundamental present – $40
- Late night time occasion – $15
Saturday tickets:
- Fundamental present – $65
- Late night time occasion – $15
Two-day passes are additionally out there, working as much as $135, relying on what number of occasions you select to attend.
A restricted variety of discounted UNC-Chapel Hill scholar tickets are additionally out there with proof of a UNC One Card, in keeping with occasion organizers.
Attendees who buy tickets for both day’s most important present occasion will obtain memento posters by artist Marcus Kiser, organizers stated.
