MoCA CFP Youtube Channel Launch Party: Koba & DJ Boo

On September 27, 2007, The Museum of Chinese in the Americas hosted a party celebrating the launch of the Chinatown Film Project's YouTube Channel. The party featured numerous performers, each with a unique voice. Koba & DJ Boo (Hip Hop Emcee & Featured Guest DJ) Koba is an inventive, irreverent and unrepentantly radical MC slash producer hailing from Brooklyn, NY. For five years he entertained eager audiences from coast to coast as part of the now disbanded Asian-American hip-hop group Kontrast, culminating with the release of their debut album Pencils (which Koba produced and wrote the bulk of). From soulful vocal harmonies giving expression to another world of possibility to a delivery as equally unrelenting as reality itself "from the West Bank to the South Side of Chicago," Koba creates music with nothing less than the entire globe in his sights. www.myspace.com/modelminority Whether he is throwing down the best in Hip-hop, Reggae and classics in NYC, or laying down instrumentals for local MC's at "Words" at The Nuyorican Poet's Café it can be seen that DJ Boo is steadily becoming a recognizable name in this ever growing Hip-hop scene. His skills as a DJ has given him the honor of opening up for the likes of Kool G. Rap, Wu Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Talib Kweli and the Beat Junkies' own DJ Shortkut. His talents are not just limited to rocking parties, for his name can also be seen alongside underground hip-hop artists like Adagio, Super Natural, ApSci (Applied Science), Consequence of A Tribe Called Quest fame, and Southern California based electro-funk artist, Uberzone. He is currently working with The Juggaknots, Koba, and Nomadic Wax's Global Underground All-Stars. www.myspace.com/djboo

YouTube | January 11, 2008