How Can I Be Down? In the Tdot... The movement has begun...
Is 'How Can I Be Down?' the catalysts for the Urban Entertainment movement in Canada? Is 'How Can I Be Down?' truly the most powerful Urban Entertainment conference on the planet? All the folks that attended the first annual 'How Can I Down?' in the T-dot, December 8 to the 11th, 2005 seemed to think so.
Like Murphy's Law everything that can happen did happen. A Thursday night snowstorm saw most of the featured executives delayed and in some cases displaced for the duration of the conference.
But from the late 10:30am start on Friday... the energy in the room was electrifying and a signal to the audience that a revolution was about to begin. Roc Brands CMO Jameel Spencer, the incomparable Phil Pabon, HCIBD founder Peter Thomas and the stealth player Marlon Stephen held it down. If the first topic was 'brand management' it was examined by looking at the history, impact and camaraderie that the panelists had experienced as members of the hip-hop culture as a whole, and more importantly as members of the ‘How Can I Be Down?’ fraternity. As the first day closed early, the captive and hungry audience was asked to join this fraternity and participate in the revolutionary movement that made Urban entertainment and hip-hop culture a powerful economic base for people of color.
Day 2 - 3 coming soon
Like Murphy's Law everything that can happen did happen. A Thursday night snowstorm saw most of the featured executives delayed and in some cases displaced for the duration of the conference.
But from the late 10:30am start on Friday... the energy in the room was electrifying and a signal to the audience that a revolution was about to begin. Roc Brands CMO Jameel Spencer, the incomparable Phil Pabon, HCIBD founder Peter Thomas and the stealth player Marlon Stephen held it down. If the first topic was 'brand management' it was examined by looking at the history, impact and camaraderie that the panelists had experienced as members of the hip-hop culture as a whole, and more importantly as members of the ‘How Can I Be Down?’ fraternity. As the first day closed early, the captive and hungry audience was asked to join this fraternity and participate in the revolutionary movement that made Urban entertainment and hip-hop culture a powerful economic base for people of color.
Day 2 - 3 coming soon
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