Hip Hop 4 Life is a 501 c(3) not-for-profit youth empowerment organization dedicated to engaging, educating and empowering young people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Health professionals, entertainers, celebrities and athletes are enlisted to educate young people on health issues through interactive workshops and empowerment seminars. Hip Hop 4 Life serves young people aged 10-18, with a special emphasis on at risk and low income youth.

Since its inception in 2003, Hip Hop 4 Life has partnered with youth and community service organizations to execute workshops and events that have reached thousands of young people nationwide.

Programs

Shades of Beauty: Today's Girls, Tomorrow's Women An empowerment program designed to address issues affecting today’s girls including body image, self-esteem, the true definition of “beauty,” goal-setting, sexuality, peer pressure, hygiene, drugs/alcohol/tobacco, and the negative portrayal of women in entertainment, media and society. Hip Hop 4 Life helps girls to realize their true beauty and empower them to be truly outstanding.

Man Up! An Empowerment Program For Boys (ages 10-17)

An empowerment program designed to address issues a boy faces during this transition to manhood including self-esteem, respect, responsibility, sexuality, hygiene, alcohol/drugs/tobacco vision-building, goal-setting and the true definition of a man. Hip Hop 4 Life works to develop a positive foundation in the lives of the boys. In November 2007, Hip Hop 4 Life launched Man UP! In partnership with BET’s Emmy-award winning Rap It Up program.

Teen Empowerment Team
Teen empowerment program that provides a viable platform to assist teens in the development of their leadership potential, communication skills and self-esteem. This initiative engages 50 teens (aged 13-18) across the New York City area in support of Hip Hop 4 Life events and advisory committees.

Events

Hip Hop 4 Life's Past and Future Events include:

• BET Rap It Up and Hip Hop 4 Life Youth Empowerment Tour As part of a national HIV/AIDS public awareness initiative, BET Rap It Up partnered with Hip Hop 4 Life and NYC's Hot 97 radio station to host a series of celebity forums. The 4-day tour visited local New York City high schools to address social behaviors and attitudes impacting today's young adults.
• Georgia Campaign For Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Atlanta, GA
• Health Time At the Apollo, Harlem Health Day
• National Kids Day, Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, Bronx, NY
• 10 Week Co-Ed Empowerment Workshops, Brooklyn's Children Museums
• YouthFest 2008
• YouthFest 2009
• YouthFest 2010, Saturday, September 25, 2010 at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. Topic: Let's Talk About Sex: Sexual Health, STI's, STDs, HIV/AIDS, Birth Control, Abstinence, Responsibility, Prevention, Sexual Pressure, and Teem Pregnancy.

Official Alliance Partners

• Girls Incorporated of New York City
• The Girl Scout Council of Greater New York
• The YMCA of Brooklyn
• Tomorrow Leaders, Inc.
• Holthouse Boys & Girls Club (Houston)
• Challengers Boys & Girls Club (Los Angeles)
• Whitehead Boys & Girls Club (Atlanta)
• FBR Boys & Girls Club (Washington DC)

Corporate Supporters

• VH1 Soul
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• BET
• BET
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   Rap-It-Up
• Universal Music Group
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• Power 105.1 (NY)
• Power 106 (LA)
• Radio Disney
• Deutsche Bank
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• The Walt Disney Company
• Washington Mystics
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• Black Beat
• Right On!
• Coca Cola
• Hasbro
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• Mudd Jeans
• ABC Radio Networks
• Champs Sports
• The Princeton Review
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• P&G

Celebrity Partners

Professional Partners

Essence Atkins Essence Atkins Essence Uhura Atkins is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Dee Dee Thorne on the UPN sitcom Half & Half and as Yvette Henderson on the The WB sitcom Smart Guy... , Soulja Boy Tell 'Em Soulja Boy Tell 'Em DeAndre Cortez Way , better known by his stage name Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, or simply Soulja Boy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, entrepreneur, and internet personality.... , Power 105's Egypt, Kwame Kwame Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include:* Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana... , Ed Lover Ed Lover James Roberts , better known as Ed Lover, is an African-American rapper, actor, musician, radio personality, and former MTV VJ.-Biography:... , Mie Jones Mike Jones (rapper) Michael "Mike" Jones is an American southern rap artist, who initially was affiliated with the record label Swishahouse, then left to be the owner of Ice Age Entertainment.... , Sammie Sammie Sammie Bush , better known by Sammie, is an American soul and pop singer. He is best known for his hit, "I Like It" from his debut album, From the Bottom to the Top . He returned with his second studio album, Sammie in 2006... , Kenya Moore Kenya Moore Kenya Summer Moore is an American film and television actress, producer, beauty queen, model and author.She is recognizable for her roles in movies such as Waiting to Exhale, Deliver Us from Eva and the 2007 Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me... , MC Lyte MC Lyte MC Lyte is an American rapper who first gained fame in the late-1980s becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.-Early life:... , Lloyd Lloyd (singer) Lloyd Polite, Jr. , who performs under the mononym Lloyd, is an American R&B recording artist, who experienced as a member of the group N-Toon before embarking on a solo career in 2004....

Lakiya Oliver (Fox Entertainment Group), Kierstan Tucker (Kedar Entertainment), Shanti Das (Universal Motown Records), Darlise Blount (BET), Mercedes Blount (BET), Richelle Cross (Class & Sass), Dana Singleton (Sigma Group)

Hip Hop 4 Life Executive Team

Tamekia Flowers, Founder/Executive Director

Tanisha Tate, Program Director

External links

• BET Rap It Up
• We Can