Hip Hop and Entrepreneurship Go Hand In Hand

Here's an interesting event to put in your calendar: On November 19th in Kansas City, the Kauffman Foundation will be holding a panel discussion on hip-hop and entrepreneurship , featuring such luminaries from the hip-hop community as Chuck D (Public Enemy) and Master P. If you can't make it to Kansas City, don't fear--it will be webcast live, from 6:15 to 9 pm.

Some things they'll be talking about:

• Contributions to American business that Hip Hop youth have spearheaded via the Hip Hop cultural explosion.

• Traditional entrepreneurial efforts that created, marketed and promoted Hip Hop music, fashion, publishing, etc.

• Current social entrepreneurial efforts within the Hip Hop generation—activist organizations who focus on electoral politics as well as other pressing social problems of our time (police brutality, environmental concerns, education reform, etc).

• The role that information technology and broadband access has played in the spread of Hip Hop music and culture.

• The explosive economy that Hip Hop created—new jobs and cottage industries.