Artists Featured At FUSION HIP HIP COMPETITION

Graffiti Artist: Todd "TK" Kiyoshi of KleenHouse Clothing

KleenHouse Clothing “Outerwear for Inner Peace” is a complete line of urban men's, women's, and kidz apparel and accessories. KleenHouse provides the opportunity to express oneself in an altogether unique platform of internal Harmony, Balance and Peace, through distinctly progressive images and aesthetics. Our images capture the essence of a true-to-life feel through explicit use of color and post-modern graffiti style and street flava. Characterized by a hard yet wholesome quality, KleenHouse Clothing is catapulting the apparel industry of today into a new dimension with 3-D graffiti accessories. Through the journey that life has unraveled for us, the term KleenHouse has taken upon new meaning…

Today, KleenHouse means that we must end the search for all the answers on the outside and strengthen our quest in discovering that all the answers truly exist inside each and every one of us. To our knowledge, everyone on this planet experiences difficulties, trials and tribulations, maybe even obstacles and hurdles throughout life. These challenges, we have come to realize, are lessons that we must walk through in order to overcome them.

Then and only then, can we move onto life's next lesson. It is our aim to contribute to our community, to society, and to all cultures as a whole. Wanting to create a space for all people to experience KleenHouse. With our hip hop hearts in our hip hop hands, we created a boutique in downtown San Diego apart from any urban store in the world…

KleenHouse Boutique was born. Incorporating elements from the outside into the inside, we literally brought telephone poles into the shop with functioning halogens suspended from the telephone lines to light the shop, a telephone booth for the dressing room (that was blank when we got it and now covered with more layers of paint and tags than we can count), a working traffic light, walls graced with graffiti…and more eye candy for hip hop lovers than “Charlie” in his “Chocolate Factory”.

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Spoken Word: Jerrica Escoto

Jerrica Escoto is a 4th year at California State University San Marcos and is double majoring in Literature and Writing and Women Studies, as well as taking up a minor in Philosophy. She has been active in the San Diego spoken word community for two years and has done numerous performances including: performances for juvenile delinquents, youth groups, San Diego special event shows, benefit concerts, the LGBT community with disabilities and/or AIDS, featured at higher education institutions including CSUSM, CSULB, CSUDH, and Southwestern Community College, competed in many slam competitions and always ranked top three, as well as regularly helping teach poetry workshops for pregnant and teen mothers for the Juvenile Court and Community Schools. Her first album, a self-entitled EP, was published in January of 2010. Jerrica intends on furthering her degrees by gaining an MFA in Creative Writing and then following, a PhD in Women Studies. Her poetry mainly consists of social consciousness regarding gender/race/sexuality/class, as well as personal accounts in struggling with her identity and her perceptions on the human condition.

MC: Prach

Born in the farmland of Cambodia but raise on the mean streets of America. He received international attention with his first album 'DALAMA..."the end'n is just the beginnin". DALAMA' recorded in his parents garage became the first #1 Hip-Hop album in Cambodia, introducing the entire country of Cambodia to the culture and Hip-Hop music. His highly anticipated follow-up album 'DALAMA.."the lost chapter." Catapults his status into raps elites. Through masterful lyrics of powerful rap music, his music educates young and old about the Cambodian genocide and the life in the Cambodian community. His music/lyrics has been publish by Manoa, for the book " In the shadow of Angkor"; which is being use for south east Asians studies in colleges and universities, he is also working on film documentary and has collaborated with many other movies productions. Newsweek proclaim him as the "pioneer of Khmer Rap" and "the first Cambodian rap star." He's also the CEO of Mujestic Records (Official Website), youngest coordinator of the Cambodian New Year for 2002, in 2003 he release Dalama..."the lost chapter." which independently sold 200,000 plus, and in 2004 he went on a 23 states tour across the United States. In January 2005 he return for the first time to his home land Cambodia and his extraordinary journey was documented by NHK for the second time. The first NHK documentary on praCh won NHK's Best Documentary of the year of 2004. He toured many Collages campus and Universities such as CSLB, CSF, UCLA, Columbia, Hawaii, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Brown, UC Berkly, NYC, Syracuse, Boston U.Mass, and the Smithsonian in DC and also the different Universities in Cambodia. He is currently working on his last Dalama album which is titled; Dalama..."Memoirs of the Invisible War". And on April 16th, 2006 he was the GRAND MARSHAL at the 2nd Annual Cambodian New Year Parade. He has been featured and been written up by Cambodia Daily, Phnom Penh Post, Newsweek, Times Magazine, ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, NBC, FOX, PBS, Press-Telegram, LA Times, Hmong Times, OC Weekly, 562 Magazine, Asia Week, Khmerconnection.com and many more. a highly recognized and respected community figure. praCh resides in Long Beach California/ Jacksonville Florida.

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Breakers: Playrockers

Beginning in April of 2009, two friends Allan Twiford and Jason Delgado (E-Shine) formed a BBoy crew that best fit the style they portrait. Recruiting another friend, Ryan Molinos (Rain), the Playrockers began to compete in BBoy competitions around San Diego County. The team name, Playrockers, basically explains the character and style withing the crew members in which having a playful and creative mindset is a top priority in terms of the dance. Although this is only the beginning for these group of dancers, the Playrockers have high hopes to reach their full potential within themselves based on the known foundations and their deep passion for the dance, which is breaking.