A Saturday hip hop festival in downtown Jacksonville honors influential Duval rapper Paten Locke with a day of performances by his friends.
Pete stressed that the festival will be family-friendly, with activities for kids and explicit lyrics toned down. He said In the Midst will give break dance lessons and kids will create their own"DJ plates" at the festival. It will also have food trucks and a bar, and blank boards will be mounted around the park for graffiti artists to do their thing.
Pete said it's no coincidence that the festival is being held in the middle of Black History Month or that it's at a park named for James Weldon Johnson, co-writer of"." The park is also one of the key sites from Axe Handle Saturday, a 1960 incident where Blacks were beaten by axe handles. "For us to be in the middle of downtown Jacksonville, at James Weldon Johnson Park, for us to be able to hold the torch like that ... that's excellent," Pete said.
There is also a VIP event Friday night associated with the festival. Two local hip-hop documentaries will be shown."Recollection: How Asamov Began" looks at the early days of Asamov, a hip-hop collective that included Locke;"Outside" looks at the current state of the Duval hip-hop scene.
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