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The Tensions, Contradictions, and Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies Welcome to “Show & Prove” (S&P).  Show & Prove is a conference series that has grown out of the collectivity interests of scholars and students of Hip Hop cultures around the world to be in dialogue and exchange with one another.  Your active participation is central As people mobilize around the world to combat various institutionalized and culturally embedded forms of racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and the like, S&P acts as an inclusive forum that enacts the possibilities of exchange and dialogue across various forms of difference in an effort to build something substantive.  And while it matters that we gather, it also matters so, we create an international community of scholars, artists, students, and activists.  We continue to grow, and hope to do so from now on with you! Imani Kai Johnson, Ph.D. Founder & Chair of the Show & Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference Series interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on African diasporic ritual cultures, Hip Hop dance in global circulation, and intersections of race, nation, and gender.  Her man*script on breaking cyphers and their epistemological possibilities is Through an examination of Africanist aesthetics within Hip Hop and specifically breaking culture, the man*script looks to the ritual dance circle—the cypher—to illuminate the layers of political, cultural, and spiritual understanding embedded in the practice. Using the physics metaphor of “dark matter,” the man*script addresses histories of exclusion, marginalization, and invisibilization that fundamentally shape the aesthetic sensibilities of b-boying culture, and the ways that such aesthetics inform the current circulation of She is currently As*istant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside. Show & Prove is a conference series is an international and interdisciplinary Hip Hop Studies biennial conference, created and