DEFBOYZ & GRAHAMSTOWN HIP-HOP

Hello everyone!

Very soon we will be uploading some stuff on hip-hop in Grahamstown. Hip-hop is a strong grassroots force in Grahamstown and the Eastern Cape in general.

We've never really documented our stuff on the Internet but its about time.

For now, let it be known that Defboyz, one of the most enduring, politically conscious, hip-hop fanatics/ activists/ fundamentalists from Fingo, Grahamstown will be dropping their debut album in 2008.

Defboyz MC 'X' or 'X-nasty' (Xolile Madinda) is one of the founding members of the Fingo Revolutionary Movement. He's a social commentator who uses hip-hop to get the message across. Defboyz believe in hip hop as consciousness, hip-hop as food of life, hip-hop as good times ... yeah...

Check out the following interview X did with 24.COM in 2007 24.COM DEFBOYZ INTERVIEW
http://www.24.com/entertainment/music/?p=interview&i=791879

You can also visit Defboyz on Myspace listen to some of the rough cuts for what is to come... www.myspace.com/defboyzcrew

PEACE
F.R.S.M

BACK TO SCHOOL 2008!!

We will be hosting an education awareness campaign about the value of education, the problems and challenges of education within our community. We're calling it BACK TO SCHOOL.
26 JANUARY 2008 - KWA-JEKI INTERSECTION, FINGO... Free your mind black!

STEVE BIKO 30/30

2007 was the year in which we commemorated 30 Years since the death of Biko.
We organised two events for the community.

We successfully hosted the Steve Biko Commemmorative IsiXhosa Speech Competition with Rhodes University's African Language Studies.
The competition was open to all Grahamstown High School kids.

Click the link to read:
HERALD REPORT ON BIKO SPEECH COMPETITION 2007
http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2007/09/19/news/n12_19092007.htm

The topic was simply on what the scholars felt the relevance of Steve Biko is today.

It was a wonderful memorable day where the standard of language use was very high.
And of course it was good to see all these young people speaking their minds so passionately and trying out their best.

We hope this event can go on in years to come.

The winning speech was by Mandilakhe Tukulu of Victoria Girls' High School.

One 16 September we kept it street-style by holding a street event in Fingo. There was drama, hip-hop, dance and poets. As usual we held dialogues and debate on Biko with prizes given.



FRSM