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Sebastien aka Dome

People must prove to the people a better day is coming Curtis Mayfield

About Me

I am the founder of The Urban Youth Empowerment Foundation, a community-based organization which uses innovative methods, including Hip Hop, to empowerment youth and create social change. You can check out the website by clicking here ...The Urban Youth Empowerment Foundation is now successfully going into its second year offering a Hip Hop culture education course for 7th and 8th graders at a school in Los Angeles. Teaching the culture of Hip Hop (and everything that it comes with!)for 5 periods Monday through Friday is an incredible experience. I sure wish I would've had a Hip Hop class in school when I was growing up! Being able to talk about Hip Hop as well as social issues, history, politics, and everything in between provides the students an opportunity to learn and discuss topics they may not ever get to talk about anywhere else, at least not at a regular school. Click to check out an interview I did for a dope website called Hip Hop Linguistics ...In any case, I am looking to network with individuals and organizations who have similar goals so don't hesitate to get at me. Also, I'm here to discover incredible artists. So, check out my music section and don't hesitate to hit me up. If you're the type of artist I like, I'll definitely add you. Also, if you have music that I can expose my students to, contact me. I'm trying to get them off their Clear Channel/Viacom diet!!!!!!!!

My Interests

My family before anything else!!! Helping youth to empower themselves, Music, Music, Music, Writing, Reading, Science, Religion, Metaphysics, Psychology, History, Politics, and a whole lot of other stuff!

I'd like to meet:

1)Positive people with something to contribute who are interested in working with my organization. 2)Dope artists like her: And if she doesn't move you, please leave my page and don't come back.CHECK OUT SOME OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS IN MY TOP 16 and check out the reunion video of one of the doppest Hip Hop crew ever: THE TUFF CREW!!

Music:

Too much to name but here's some of it in no particular order - Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Red Alert, Full Force, Force M.C.'s (MD's for you young heads!), Public Enemy, BDP/KRS ONE, early LL, Doug E. Fresh, A Tribe Called Quest, Gangstarr, Rakim, The Chosen Ones (what y'all know about that!), X-Clan, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, early Ice T, EPMD, Main Source (Large Professor), Black Sheep, Arrested Development, Leaders of the New School, Organized Konfusion, Ultramagnetic MC's, Brand Nubians, Poor Righteous Teachers, Just Ice, Nice and Smooth, KMD, 3rd Bass, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Whodini, UTFO, RUN DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 (Melle Mel), Kurtis Blow, Tuff Crew, Mark the 45 King, Lakim Shabazz, Chill Rob G, Stetsasonic, Marley Marl and the whole Juice Crew: MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Kool G Rap, and Craig G, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Cash Money, MC Lyte, Wu Tang Clan, Gravediggaz, Killah Priest, Sunz of Man, Hell Razah, Bronze Nazareth, Jeru, Lauryn Hill, Common, Talib, Mos Def, Blackalicious, Latyrx, DJ Shadow, Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Issac Hayes, Al Green, Gill Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Wanda Robinson, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, Willie Hutch, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Earth, Wind, and Fire, early Kool & the Gang, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Prince, Maxwell, Brand New Heavies, Young Disciples, Loose Ends, Massive Attack, Portishead, 4Hero, Jill Scott, Erikah Badu, Sade, Mary J. Blige, Sting, Tony, Toni, Tone, Raphael Saadiq, Ceelo Green, Fertile Ground, Youssou N'Dour, Jon Lucien, Minnie Riperton, Terry Callier, Nina Simone, Jacques Brel, Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Yusuf Lateef, Alice Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Dwight Tribble, and a lot of artists on MYspace!!! Check out these joints:

Movies:

Malcolm X, Mo' Betta Blues, Do the Right Thing, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Batman Begins, Spiderman 1 and 2, Jungle Fever...

Television:

Prison Break, Heroes, The History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geo Channel, PBS, and whatever my children force me to watch!!!!

Books:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black Man of the Nile, Assata Shakur...

Heroes:

Dr. Ben, Dr. Clarke, Assata Shakur, and most of all, Malcolm X. Here's a beautiful tribute to him.

My Blog

A CHALLENGE TO ALL HIP HOP ARTISTS

A CHALLENGE TO ALL HIP HOP ARTISTS By Sebastien "Dome" Elkouby   I've been told over and over that I shouldn't expect Hip Hop artists to show much interest in our nation's youth; after all, art...
Posted by Sebastien aka Dome on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:53:00 PST

The White Rapper Show

For those who have watched VH-1's "The White Rapper Show", you'll remember the white girl named Persia from Far Rockaway, Queens, who used the "N" word repeatedly.  She defended herself by saying...
Posted by Sebastien aka Dome on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST

The Feeling of real Hip Hop

This morning on my way to the office, I'm listening to Masta Ace's album, "Long Hot Summer", and I'm thinking to myself, "DAMN, THIS IS REAL HIP HOP!"  Conceptual, creative, lyrical, melodic, etc...
Posted by Sebastien aka Dome on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:36:00 PST