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Raw Pride is a collective of hip hop artists from the Milton Keynes area who have united to raise awareness of the hip hop culture.
Raw Pride aim to express the inspiration of culture, peace, truth, unity, respect, love, freedom and justice through a combination of elements such as Deejayin, Beatboxin, Emceein, Breakin, street language, street knowledge to ultimately achieve street entrepreneurialism as a collective.
Through the abidance of simple principles as listed in the Hiphop Declaration of Peace presented to the United Nations on May 16th 2001, Raw Pride hope to contribute to “the establishment of a foundation of health, love, awareness, wealth, peace and prosperity for themselves and others, their children and their children’s children, forever”.
So Why Raw Pride? Although the collective feel a rose by any other name is still as sweet, (How poetic) they wanted a name that represented what they are about.
How much thought goes into a name these days? Well… what does it matter?
Raw as in fresh, undiluted, rare, honest, what you see is what you get
Pride as in self-respect, dignity, self-esteem, & honour
Terminology? Raw Pride, or Roar Pride? Take it how you want but whether it’s a Lion on a pound coin, the Lion of Judah, or 3 Lions on a shirt, the collective still possess that same strong heartedness as individuals, and when in a collective they are like a Pride of Lions, all kings in this concrete jungle and when they do their thing the crowd too Roar with Pride, like Lions in a Pride… with Pride. But still…. A rose by any other name………..
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