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A former AISD teacher and founder of educational nonprofit Hip Hop Grew Up, Blakes has devoted his adult life to passing the lessons of the genre along to the next generation. –"The way kids now are native to touch screens because they've never lived without them – that's the way that I'm native to hip-hop culture. Moving through different social contexts, school context, any context, I would always use hip-hop culture as my GPS to make friends.
"This is a celebration of hip-hop growing up despite the reductive lenses it was always viewed through. On the one hand, you have this culture that a lot of people reduce to just music, that represents a really long historical presence of the people that are subjugated to be inferior based on who's in power. [These are] the people who, quote, 'have nothing' getting in your face, expressing things that maybe you don't want to hear, but that demands a conversation.
"Around '84, I started DJ'ing a lot of the fraternity parties at Texas State, and from there I became a record promoter for local acts and acts from all around the country. 2 Live Crew was the first big act that I promoted with Luke Skyywalker Records out of Miami. Uncle Luke and Fresh Kid Ice [of 2 Live Crew] taught me how to throw concerts – aof concerts. I was able to open up a record store in the Nineties called Custom Cards with a friend of mine from high school, Monique Verse.
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