The Inception of Hip Hop Stacks

The Inception of Hip Hop Stacks

The beginning of Hip Hop Stacks started with friendship between two Hip Hop kids from different sides of the country that met in an English 535 Jazz Lyric course at New Mexico State University's Clara Belle Williams hall.  Our first day of class was everyone's first time meeting each other...myself (Lee), Jus, and Dr. Kathleene West who for introductions randomly paired up classmates to introduce each other. I got to introduce Justin and Justin got to introduce me. I found out he listened to Gang Starr and he found out my favorite song was They Reminisce Over You by Pete Rock & CL Smooth.  This would be the start of a best friendship and several other introductions for a whole bunch of ideas that would develop between us at New Mexico State University. 

One of those ideas was Hip Hop Stacks. We connected with then librarian of NMSU's Zuhl Library, Mardi Mahaffy and the Branson Library to assemble a collection of books and films about Hip Hop and music CDs. The inception of Hip Hop Stacks included an opening event and lecture to celebrate the collection, radio promo, a documentary film screening at the NMSU CMI Theatre of Inventos Hip Hop Cubano, and a couple of articles that were published about the event. Mardi was also super kind enough to clear some shelf space at the library for the Hip Hop Stacks collection that was purchased based off of our recommendations.

This flier is a look back at the beginning of Hip Hop Stacks and includes photographs of the shelf space at NMSU's Zuhl Library.  Its just a piece of the Hip Hop Stacks story which would continue to grow at NMSU and reach out to the El Paso Public Library system in west Texas.

For the event we put together a soundtrack. The first beat on there was by Damu the Fudgemunk titled ((What's Next)) listen.

#Lee