Learning should move you.
Bavu
Blakes.
A teacher’s mind.
An emcee’s instinct.
Keynotes and workshops that make big ideas felt, remembered, and put to work.
Bring Bavu to your roomEducation is way more important than school.
School is a building and a schedule. Education is what happens when a young person recognizes themselves in the lesson — and a leader recognizes the lesson in their practice. Bavu has spent a career making those two things meet.
Austin's first emcee with a song added to daytime commercial radio. Collaborator with Grammy-winning producers including Adrian Quesada and Gary Clark Jr.
Founder of Hip Hop Grew Up. Co-author, with his son, of El's Mirror. A classroom teacher who never stopped being one — which is precisely why the stage believes him.
What he brings
to your room.
Keynotes
Theatrical, musical, lyrical, visual. A talk that is also a performance and a lesson — built so the room leaves carrying something it can use on Monday.
Workshops
Facilitated working sessions that move leaders from language to labor, and from academic to applicable. Less inspiration, more infrastructure.
Educator professional learning
Youth engagement
Hosting & emceeing
Performance & multimedia
A lesson that
stays with you.
Read the full reflectionWe learned that lifting each other up and offering support is far more beneficial than passing judgment based on individual performance.
Hip Hop Grew Up. So did the kids raised on it. Now they are the decision-makers.
Hip Hop Grew Up is Bavu's platform for treating the culture as the intellectual, artistic, and spiritual tradition it has always been — and putting it to work in classrooms and communities.
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