Secret Agent 23 Skidoo: Family Tree & I Gotta Be Me Videos

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Family Tree

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo makes "Hip Hop For Kids" and released an expanded version of Easy this week including both Family Tree and I Gotta Be Me.

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - I Gotta Be Me

Available on iTunes:
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo: Easy

Chub City: Dentsu Inc. to Buy Hip Hop Toy Brand

Chub City i-Playaz Character

Dentsu Inc. has agreed to "acquire all rights, title and interest in the brand Chub City", a line of hip hop influenced toy figures and vehicles, with plans to create an animated series and launch an "extensive new licensing program."

Chub City Vehicle w/Character

According to the press release:

"The Chub City crew of characters and their distinctive 'chubbed' vehicles can now be found in 12 of the largest global retailers reaching 11,000 locations worldwide. In approximately 2 years, the brand generated over $20 million in retail sales."

Chub City was created by Jada Toys.

Hip Hop Fables: Animated TV Series by Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Creator

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers creator Jack Olesker is the new president of Ken Creative Studio which is currently in post-production for the pilot of one of his projects, Hip Hop Fables, an animated tv series with a $10 million budget.

The Hip Hop Fables site is still under construction with some nice looking graphics but I guess we'll have to wait for more though a few clues can be had via this announcement for voiceover auditions back in June.

Official Site:
Ken Creative Studio

The Hip-Hop Nursery Rhymes Collection

The Hip-Hop Nursery Rhymes Collection

The Hip-Hop Nursery Rhymes Collection CD is being reissued on September 30th from the MVD Audio division of MVD Entertainment Group.

It's currently available in a digital edition.

Hip Hop For Kids: School House Hop DVD

Hip Hop For Kids: School House Hop

The Hip Hop For Kids: School House Hop dvd featuring Roger G is due July 15th.

According to Jakina Hill:

"Roger G may be best known as the skating dancer in Michael Jackson's "I'm Bad""video. But he is also a rapper, choreographer and mime, who has won the Parent's Choice award for Best Children’s Video for the original Hip-Hop for Kids Video in 1995."

Official Site:
Hip Hop For Kids: School House Hop

MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids Album

MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids

Apparently the hip hop musical products for kids market is busy enough that the press release for kid's album, MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids, states that the album "differentiates itself from other children's hip-hop projects through its educational platform, already tested extensively in classrooms across the country."

Official Site w/Teacher Resources:
MeeWee

Romeo's Gee Gee the Magical Giraffe

Romeo, Gee Gee, Master P

Words are not adequate to describe Romeo's move into educational media with Gee Gee the Magical Giraffe.

Master P, Romeo, Gee Gee

Romeo and Master P Create The Next Big Children's Educational Television Show, and Introduce Their Character Gee Gee The Giraffe at Earth Day Event

Official Site:
Gee Gee Giraffe

Pizza Party: Hip Hop Educational CD for Early Childhood

Pizza Party is a hip hop cd for the early childhood set featuring songs by Littleague, aka Neil McIntyre, with production by Improv and a related curriculum that includes characters drawn by Beast:

"So you hear 'Bug Patrol' one week at school," McIntyre explains, "and then you do a whole week's worth of lessons that tie into bugs and learning to respect living things...you play the music and then have them actively listen to it and pick it apart with all kinds of activities — math manipulative, fine motor movement, gross motor."

The curriculum was developed by Larry Georgeson.

Smart Shorties Hip Hop Multiplication

Smart Shorties Hip Hop Multiplication CD

Smart Shorties Hip Hop Multiplication is a music cd and workbook intended to help kids with math now available from Smart Shorties.

Here's the playlist of songs and their "inspiration":

The full track listing on Smart Shorties Hip Hop Multiplication includes:

1. 1s Always The Same (inspired by Akon's "I Wanna Love You")

2. Me and 2s (inspired by Cassie's "Me and U")

3. Crank Them 3s (inspired by Soulja Boy's "Crank That")

4. Throw Some 4s On It (inspired by Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's")

5. 5s This Is Why I'm Smart (inspired by Mims' "This Is Why I'm Hot")

6. 6s Math Facts Teacher (inspired by T-Pain's "Bartender")

7. 7s Ballin' (inspired by Jim Jones' "We Fly High")

8. 8s I Know You Know It (inspired by Yung Joc's "I Know You See It")

9. The 9s Trick (inspired by Jibbs "Chain Hang Low")

10. 10s Work It Out (inspired by DJ Unk's "Walk It Out")

11. 11s Double Double (inspired by Chris Brown's "Kiss Kiss")

12. 12s Tell Me What You Know (inspired by E-40's "Tell Me When To Go")

13. 0s Clear It Out (inspired by Webstar's "Chicken Noodle Soup")

Baby Loves Hip Hop Presents the Dino 5

Baby Loves Hip Hop Presents the Dino 5

Prince Paul, aka DJ Stegosaurus, is the mastermind behind Baby Loves Hip Hop Presents the Dino 5, a hip hop cd for kids released on April 1st by Torque Records.

Also involved:

"Chali 2Na (MC T-Rex from Jurassic 5), Ladybug (Tracy Triceratops from Digable Planets), Scratch (Teo Pterodactyl from The Roots), and Wordsworth (Billy Brontosaurus of eMc). And it don't stop: The Dino 5 has been optioned for a cartoon series and Grammy-winning poet Ursula Rucker narrates its audio book."

Official Sites:
Dino 5
Theme Song & Trailer
Baby Loves Hip Hop

Hip Hop Harry: Move those Feet Due March 11th!!!

Hip Hop Harry: Move those Feet

Hip Hop Harry: Move those Feet is due on DVD March 11th from Allumination.  And, if you can't wait, Hip Hop Harry: Fun with Friends is already available!  Yay!

Hip Hop Harry: Fun with Friends

From the Product Description:

"It's the Emmy Nominated, live-action, high-energy learning series that has taken children s programming by storm featuring episodes from the TV series that won a Parents Choice Approved Award in 2007! Meet Hip Hop Harry, the lovable, huggable rapping teddy bear whose favorite theme is I Love To Learn!"

"Always 100% positive fun, Hip Hop Harry uses music, dance and rhyme to help teach youngsters about language, social skills and problem solving while he gets them up on their feet and out of their seats for hours of exercise for both mind and body!"

Baby Jamz Brings Hip Hop Beats to Toddlers

Baby Jamz Dance Mat

Beyonce's dad, Matthew Knowles, is launching a Baby Jamz hip hop rhythms toy line in a joint partnership between Music World Entertainment and Planet Toys.

In addition to a nursery rhymes over hip hop beats cd, featuring Beyonce's sis Solange, the following toys should appear in Walmart on July 26th:
Baby Jamz Cell Phone
Baby Jamz Dance Mat
Baby Jamz Key Chain
Baby Jamz Boom Box Shape Sorter
Baby Jamz Mix Master Chair

The press release describes each toy more thoroughly.

Related News:
Music World Entertainment Release New Children's Albums, "Kid's Rap Radio" And "Kids Rap Holiday" On December 5, 2006

Lyrical Swords on Hip Hop, Youth and Parents

Food for thought.

"Hip hop, by itself, is not intrinsically good or bad.  It can free minds, build schools, keep peace in the streets, build racial and spiritual bridges and help one gain self-mastery and authentic awe for God's light.  On the other hand, it can enclose youth in their own little cocoon of jealousy, poverty, self-hate, racial animosity and fratricide and help people cultivate the darkness inside themselves.  I know this because I have watched both happen within myself and within others. . . Parents should not fear Hip Hop or its accompanying ideas; rather, they should seek to understand and appreciate them authentically.  That way they can guide their children towards the values and lifestyles they want their youngsters to share."

From page 114-15 of Adisa Banjoko's Lyrical Swords.

Children's Fashion on the Runway

New York's Olympus Fashion Week, produced by 7th on 6th, will include a Child magazine children's fashion runway show.  The show will present a variety of labels including hip hop-related lines from Marc Ecko, Roc-A-Wear, Phat Farm Boys and Baby Phat Girlz by Kimora Lee Simmons.  Child Editor-in-Chief Miriam Arond states,
"Children's fashion has never been recognized in the same way that the adult lines have, and yet, if you look at the clothing that comes out season after season, the designs often rival or even surpasses men's and women's wear lines in terms of creativity, use of color and experimentation."

Models will include Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons' daughter Ming Lee and Damon Dash's kids Boogie and Ava.  Olympus Fashion Week schedule.

Kid's Flick Important to Ice Cube

Are We There Yet? opens tomorrow and it will be an important test for Ice Cube's dreams of becoming a legitimate player in children's movies while building his production company, Cube Vision, into a "business that's respected."