Urban Street Jam

Urban Street Jam

Genre	hip hop culture festival
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	Irvine, California
Founded	2010
Website	urbanstreetjam.com

Urban Street Jam is an annual hip-hop culture festival that showcases music, art, dance, and fashion in the hip-hop community.

History

Craig Borja of Phaze1 Entertainment/owner and producer along with Marlon Shell of Stylz Dance Studio/Co owner and producer of Urban Street Jams first annual event was held on February 20, 2010, Urban Street Jam's original venue was scheduled to be outdoors at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Irvine) at the Hidden Valley Park, but due to weather, the venue was changed last minute to Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa, California. Urban Street Jam had a fashion show, choreography dance competition, 2 vs 2 all stylz dance battle, bboy dance competition, clothing venues, viewers choice battle, graffiti showcase and import show cars. Also, Stephen "Twitch" Boss from So You Think You Can Dance taught a dance workshop at the event.^[1]

Hosts

The entire festival was hosted by Stylz Dance Studio in Covina, California and Phaze1 Entertainment. Emcees include 21XL Production's Myron Marten and Sick Step Dance Crew's Mookie, who have both hosted Vibe Dance Competition.^[2] Sponsors include Power 106, World of Dance, and Hip Hop International, BOOGIEZONE.COM, Kallusive Clothing, DanceTag.tv, and Clubbing411.^[3]

Performers

Several celebrities in the dance community have performed for this event including those from America's Best Dance Crew and So You Think You Can Dance. Dancers include Stephen "Twitch" Boss, Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval of Quest Crew, Hokuto "Hok" Konishi of Quest Crew, RJ KoolRaul of Supreme Soul, Smart Mark and Lil-O of Phresh Select, Kaba Modern Legacy, Mike Song and Victor Kim of Quest Crew.

Winners

2010

Choreography Dance Competition

1st: Common Ground from Irvine, California
2nd: 220 from San Diego, California
3rd: Main Ingredient from Los Angeles, California

All Stylz Dance Battle

Mike Song of Kaba Modern and Victor Kim of Quest Crew
D-Trix of Quest Crew and Hok of Quest Crew
Smart Mark of Phresh Select/AOP and Lil-O of Phresh Select/AOP

2011

Choreography Dance Competition

1st: Choreo Cookies from Oceanside, California
2nd: Academy of Villains Northern California
3rd: Jungle Boogie from Atlanta, Georgia

All Stylz Battle Dance Battle

1st: Miss Funk, Breeze Lee, & Full-Out of VersaStyle Dance Company

References

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External links

Urban Street Jam official website
Stylz Dance Studio Host of the festival

Hip hop

Breaking
DJing
Graffiti
Emceeing
Beatboxing

Culture

History

Subgenres

General	Alternative Hipster hop Boom bap Bounce British Road rap Chipmunk soul Chopped and screwed Chopper Cloud rap Comedy Crunk Crunkcore East Coast Freestyle rap Hyphy Jerkin' Instrumental Latin Chicano rap Lofi Miami bass Mumble rap Nerdcore Chap hop Political Conscious Progressive rap Religious Christian Jewish Snap music Southern Turntablism Underground
Hardcore	Dirty rap Gangsta rap Mafioso rap G-funk Horrorcore Memphis rap
Trap music	Afro trap Drill Brooklyn drill Jersey drill Sample drill UK drill Latin trap Phonk Plugg Rage Tread UK trap

Fusion genres

General	Country rap Electro Emo rap Hip hop soul Hip house Industrial Jazz rap New jack swing Pop rap Psychedelic rap Punk rap Ragga Rap opera Rap rock Trip hop
Rap metal	Trap metal Nu metal
Regional	Afroswing Bongo flava Boomba music Cumbia rap Genge Hip hop galsen Hipco Hiplife Igbo rap Kwaito Low bap Motswako Na mele paleoleo Nuyorican rap Romany hip hop Songo-salsa Stronda Urban Pasifika Vigilante rap Zenji flava

Derivatives

Electronic	Breakbeat Baltimore club Florida breaks Ghetto house Ghettotech Glitch hop Grime Illbient Freestyle Wonky
Other	Funk carioca Reggaeton Alternative reggaeton

Regional scenes

African	Algerian Angolan Beninese Botswana Gambian Ghanaian Ivorian Kenyan Malawian Mauritian Moroccan Namibian Nigerian Port Harcourt Nigerien Senegalese South African Tanzanian Togolese Zambian Zimbabwean
Asian	Armenian Azerbaijani Bangladeshi Burmese Chinese Indian Desi Indonesian Japanese Korean Malaysian Mongolian Nepalese Pakistani Philippine Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thai
European	Albanian Austrian Belgian Bosnian and Herzegovinian British Celtic Scottish Bulgarian Croatian Czech Dutch Finnish French German Greek Portuguese Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Macedonian Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Romanian Romany Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Swiss Ukrainian
Middle Eastern	Arabic Egyptian Iranian Israeli Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Arabian Tunisian Turkish Yemeni
North American	United States: East Coast Baltimore New Jersey New York City Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Midwestern Chicago Detroit Minneapolis/St. Paul Omaha Southern Atlanta Memphis Miami West Coast Northwest Alaska Asian American Latin Native American Outside the US: Canadian Cuban Dominican Haitian Mexican Salvadoran
Oceanian	Australian New Zealand
South American	Brazilian Brasília Chilean Colombian

Other topics

Category

v t e Hip hop festivals
List of hip hop music festivals
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Theater festivals	Hip Hop goes Theatre
Music festivals	DMC World DJ Championships Openair Frauenfeld Big Day Out Blockfest Summer Jam Young London into Music Essence Music Festival Soundset Music Festival Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival Rock the Bells Jingle Jam The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival Trinity International Hip Hop Festival Paid Dues Pipefest Supafest Hiphopplaya Festival
Culture	Hip hop culture DJing breakdancing MCing beatboxing hip hop fashion street art hip hop theater
Related events	Block party open mic dance festival music festival jazz festival blues festival electronic music festival pop festival rock festival concert tour

v t e Hip hop dance
History of hip hop dance
Primary influences	Breaking Locking Popping
Derivative styles	Krumping Jerkin' Turfing Memphis Jookin' Lyrical hip-hop
Film	Balttle of the Year Beat Street Beat the World Breakin Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo Honey Honey 2 Honey 3: Dare to Dance Battlefield America Step Up Step Up 2: The Streets Step Up 3D Step Up Revolution Step Up: All In Bouncing Cats Planet B-Boy Rize Save the Last Dance Save the Last Dance 2 Feel the Noise StreetDance 3D StreetDance 2 Beat This: A Hip-Hop History Saigon Electric Neukölln Unlimited ABCD: Any Body Can Dance ABCD 2 Make Your Move B-Girl Wild Style You Got Served
Television	Soul Train The Grind The Party Machine with Nia Peeples Dance Fever Dance 360 The Wade Robson Project America's Best Dance Crew Dance on Sunset Shake It Up Step Up
People	Jeffrey Daniel Crazy Legs DJ Kool Herc Lil' C Ken Swift James Brown Salah Toni Basil Dave Scott Frosty Freeze Luca Patuelli Darrin Henson Ashley Banjo Hong 10 Mr. Wiggles Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo George Sampson Shane Sparks Mona Berntsen Harry Shum Jr. Laurieann Gibson Detlef Soost Fever One Alyson Stoner Adil Khan Jon M. Chu Haspop Nam Hyun-joon Sofia Boutella Adam G. Sevani Lilou Shaun Evaristo Columbus Short Les Twins Roxrite Lil Buck Akai Osei Cloud Twist and Pulse Sisco Gomez Shantanu Maheshwari
Theater	In the Heights Into the Hoods Hamilton
Events	Breakin' Convention Hip Hop International United Dance Organisation World of Dance Rock the Spot Urban Street Jam UK B-Boy Championships Red Bull BC One
Related topics	African-American dance Street dance House dance Funk Flexing (dance) Electro dance Hip-hop theater Bounce Streetdance Company So You Think You Can Dance The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers World of Dance The Hip Hop Dance Experience