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Hashim Haruna, aka Big Hash does not need any further introduction as he is a very popular guy. Being born in Nima and later moved to the Bronx but never lost his roots, "We never have our own party, we always used to go to parties of different cultures and listened to their music and the only way for these people to hear our music is to start having our own parties ", he added. This is the main reason why he started organizing events in order to bring all cultures together. It works now because anytime he and his group organize a party, there are different people of diverse cultures who dance to the Ghanaian music and love it.
Hashim says BDN is for everyone, not just for him and VIP alone because it is a nonprofit project. He goes; "The only way to move forward is to give back that's the motto we have and the scholarship fund that was started five years ago. What I do is, anytime I organize an event, some percentage goes towards the scholarship funds".
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi is a new film maker, who has already won prestigious awards with his earlier film, Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano. After graduating with a Masters degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, his film Inventos won the Best Documentary Film Award at the Pan African Film Festival in Denver. This film has continued to be screened nationally and internationally, including Cuba, Brazil, England, South Africa, and India.
VIP is made up of Abdul Hamidu Ibrahim (Lazzy) Emmanuel Promzy Ababio (Promzy) Joseph Nana Ofori (Prodigal) Their initial involvement with music started way back in the early nineties, at Nima a suburb of Accra. As a group they easily embodied the greatness and perseverance that reflected a tough, unforgiving and ambitious Ghetto life. They met to see "who is who"in rap competitions. Little did they know that one day they would become superstars.
SNUP is a leader of the Hip Hop Clan in Ghana known as the Black Monks. He is also one of the leaders of BDN in Ghana. He is the bridge that connects politics to music and is a fighter for the liberation and freedom of all of Africa and the world.
