Ho'okupu Learner & Teacher Resource Guide: A Hip Hop Anthology of Hawaiian History

Ho'okupu is a Hip Hop anthology of Hawaiian history created by a masterful team of Hawaiian cultural historians, Hawai'i's top MCs, educational consultants, teachers, Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning hip hop artists, producers, hip hop lyrical advisors, and academic professors. This collaborative project can be used in classrooms as a rich and engaging resource to teach Hawai'i's history. As an initiative of education through arts and culture, we optimized this project by creating supplemental resources. Each song is treated as a unit in this Learner & Teacher Resource Guide. Each song unit includes a brief introduction, followed by the lyrics, several writing and discussion prompts, and a poetry sample and prompt. A recommended list of sources that can be used to supplement the content areas covered within the song is also included. We are alchemizing the meaning of oral storytelling by telling our story in a truly traditional fashion blended with the highly influential modern catalysts for social change, hip hop, education, and media. This Ho'okupu album is available to stream and download on various musical platforms.