We are Hip Hop For Change

Our Mission

We enhance opportunities for marginalized communities by reclaiming Hip Hop music & culture as a vehicle for education, empowerment, and employment. We aim to inspire the next generation of creatives to address Social injustices and advocate solutions through Hip Hop culture. 

Find out how we are utilizing Hip Hop to enrich our youth’s ability to become orators of their own stories.

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  • Arts Education

    Leveraging the power of Hip Hop to Remix the world of education for grades k-12. Engaging youth in culturally responsive and culturally affirming programming to enhance their education experience.

  • Community Empowerment

    Creating safe and brave spaces for members of any community to access healthy self-expression through social justice, health, and wellness events. 

  • Workforce Developement

    We thrive on providing local artists resources, opportunities, and training to become community mentors, guiding the next generation of hip hop culture bearers.

Our Programs

  • Hip Hop In the Park

    We set out to develop culture bearers and Hip Hop arts practitioners within the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood through a series of events, performances, workshops and activations open to the entire community.

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  • Pipeline to Positivity

    Pipeline to Positivity is a Paid youth-artist-in-residency program designed for systems impacted youth, ages 14-24 to be introduced to various creative careers within Hip Hop and Tech industries. Participants have the opportunity to learn key arts-based workforce development skills that will help them explore a wide range of career options.

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  • Agents of Change

    In partnership with East Bay Regional Parks District, Hip Hop for Change offers our Agents of Change program every summer. This is a week-long artist-in-residency program that incorporates naturalist knowledge into an experiential educational survey of the five elements of Hip Hop.

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  • THE MC

    THE MC is an in-school five part program divided into separate but related sessions. Coming out of this program, students will be able to think more critically about the world and how their racial identities reflect the historical economical structures around them.

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  • Writer's Camp Wednesday

    All youth ages 14-24 are welcome to utilize our brand new  state of the art studio for FREE  every Wednesday from 1:00pm-5:00pm. Youth can use our studio space to write original songs, produce beats, record tracks, practice DJing, podcast, or livestream!

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  • Womens Empowerment

    Explore the historical context that Hip Hop was born of and its evolution, with an emphasis on women’s influences and experiences. This program covers everything from the five elements of Hip Hop Culture, hypersexualization, Hip Hop HERstory, and of course, WOMEN IN HIP HOP!

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Learn Hip Hop ONLINE

Our original Hip Hop curriculum is now available to our community partners via online courses and a series of live-streaming workshops. These courses will serve students in lieu of in-person instruction with engaging activities, instructional video lectures, and presentations to follow at home during their time away from the classrooms. Learn how to rap, DJ, graffiti, and breakdance all from the comfort of your own home!

Local Artist Highlight

T.A.O.

A 24 year old MC, songwriter, and drummer from East Oakland who performed at our KRS ONE Master Class in January . He dropped his first song last year. Click below to check it out