1. Choose one or more hip-hop activities that are being practiced in your community, and following the model of "Style Wars", go out and learn a little more about them. Please try to interview participants in the activity, and if possible, attend a show or activity. You may also shape your project around a hip-hop activity that you yourself practice if you are involved in hip-hop in that way.
2. As you're preparing your ethnography, make sure to get good accurate information about the individuals associated with the activity and that you document the activity with good detailed notes, images, and/or video.
3. If it is absolutely impossible for you to visit a live organization or event, you may go to a community-based hip-hop web site instead. Please let me know if you are having difficulty making contacts or visiting the event, as I might be able to suggest ways to guide you.
4. As with the Mixtape project, you are welcome to prepare your ethnography in a format of your choice, such as (but not limited to) a series of short original songs, poems or narrative writings, video, graffiti-inspired art pieces, or a written essay. Written projects should be about 1,000-1,500 words in length; song, spoken word poetry collections, or video pieces should be about 10-15 minutes long; and graffiti inspired art pieces should contain 7-10 images, each accompanied by explanatory text.