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West Coast Rappers
continued
from page 11
Killa Tay, Jacka, Lee Major, RBL
Posse, and plenty more. Local, up­
coming rappers will get the chance
to share the stage with their favorite
big-name musicians in the show­
case opening.
Growing up, Miller has lost more
than a few of his friends to incar­
ceration or gang-related deaths be­
cause they chose the life of “gang­
banging”. When he moved to Port­
land in 1993 and opened One Love
Records on Mississippi Avenue,
he watched a younger generation
continue the culture of street vio­
lence.
“We want to heal the city,” said
Miller, who has offered rap music as
an outlet for change in the form of
the West Coast Hip-Hop Awards
since its first show at the Roseland
Theater in 2008. Since then, shows
have sold out at Portland’s Jackson
Armory and last year at Fort Mason
in San Francisco.
“Most rappers - i f they were
not doing m usic, they might be
out on the streets doing negative
things, but they chose to put
down guns and become a m usi­
cian or artist,” said M iller who
hopes to see our Portland youth
do the same.
Humbly passing his love of mu­
sic onto the next generation of young
hip-hop enthusiast, Miller wants to
give youth the opportunity to real­
ize the alternatives to selling drugs
or what he calls a one way ticket to
hell.
Further blurring the line between
hip-hop and education. Miller plans
to invest the proceeds of Guns
Down, Mikes Up into an academy-
style music program and a hip-hop
museum that will honor the first
pioneers of underground.
General adm ission tickets are
$33. For VIP ticket inform ation
con tact o f O ctavius M iller at
5 1 0 -2 6 9 -7 1 2 7
or
e m a il,
octaviusm iller@ yahoo.com .
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