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Vote HipHop Contest Raps Up!
What's up fam!
Ambessa here to remind you that there's still time to upload your music, video or graf artwork contribution to VoteHipHop, a contest open to 18-30 year old hiphop'ers who want to express their voice this election.
But hurry — the contest closes at midnight this Saturday November 1.
You could win $500, have your work featured on BET, Wiretap and other sites and be flown to The VoteHipHop Awards presentation Saturday November 15 in Oakland, CA!
If you've got a hot hip-hop track, spoken word piece, video or fly graphic artwork that speaks out about the election, America's or your community's issues or how youth can change the world for the better, upload your work now. No time to waste! Get to VoteHipHop.org
And it's real easy — find instrucions at VoteHipHop/Upload.
You can also rate your favorite entry — and your vote will count toward choosing one winner each in three categories: Music, Video and Design. That's $500 bucks on the line for each category!
The contest is being sponsored by GenVote, a non-profit youth movement coalition that cares about your opinion and issues this election.
So get on that laptop, desktop, library computer — whatever — and upload your entry today!
Reminders: when you upload — include a photo or image and short text about your entry. Make sure to "tag" your entry votehiphop.
Oh yeah, Talib is one of the judges too!
Check out a few of our potential winners:
Ambessa is Outreach Coordinator at Vote HipHop.