DJ CAVEM.MOETAVATION

Bio:

. Straight out tha garden, fresh beats and vocals! Ietef Hotep Vita aka "DJ CaveM" of the hip-hop group "Moetavation" is an all-around "B-Boy" utilizing his gifts to serve as an: "O-G"-organic gardener, MC, educator, graffiti guru, breakdancer, world traveler, and award-winning community arts activist. As a cultural workerDenver native, hailing from the historic Five Points area and has been a long time community activist. Hotep Vita has worked with the Pan African Arts Society as a youth coordinator for various film festivals they have hosted, with Café Nuba, performing spoken word and doing promotions for their renowned poetry events, and with Slam Nuba, as a poet and disc jockey for their monthly poetry slams. In addition to the entertainment realm, Ietef has always been heavily involved in education. Hotep Vita has taught various after school programs focused on Hip Hop culture with Swallow Hill Music School and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater. Hotep Vita is the founder of the Brown Suga Youth Fest, an annual event that brings together holistic healers, educators, artists and the youth for presentations, discussion and networking. Hotep Vita is an educator for the African American Studies college preparatory course for Metro State College at Thomas Jefferson High School for the spring 2010 semester. Hotep Vita is also an Eco-Cultivator for the local organization Blue and Yellow Logic whose focus is diversifying the “green” movement. In this position he introduced gardening, recycling, composting and other environmental lessons to 20 high risk young adults during the 2009 growing season. Hotep Vita is an organic gardener with the East Side Growers Collective and is working as the Site Manager and Community Coordinator for the Denver Metro Area for Urban Farming. Urban Farming is an organization based out of Detroit, Michigan focused on building community gardens all over the country. Hotep Vita is securing new community garden sites in food deserts across the city in which he will engage the community; teaching them how to grow food, maintain the land, build compost, and harvest. Hotep Vita will also be a grower at the new Growhaus green house project in the Swansea-Elyria neighborhood of Denver, CO, cultivating worms, compost and an aquaponics project. In addition to “green” work, Hotep Vita continues to develop his interests and career in audio engineering and music business by working with producers and artists such as: Bun-B, and The Flobots. Hotep Vita has performed with artists such as Talib Kweli, Les Nubians, K'naan, Gil Scott Heron, Public Enemy, Dj Kool Herc, The Last Poets, The Wu Tang Clan, Hieroglyphics, Midnight, Anthony B, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, The Coup and has performed internationally in Burkina Faso, West Africa, Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Hotep Vita has released three albums thus far all containing conscious, enlightening content. Hotep Vitas most recent artistic project is a music album entitled “The Teacher’s Lounge”.

Influences:

PEACE 2 FATHER ALLAH MY MOMMA ..