 My name is Fat Rat Dazaar. I'm the Executive Director of Love, Peace, and Hip-Hop's World Famous Hip-Hop Family Day, and welcome to Destination Hometown. Well, it was four of us. I'm the Principal Founder and Sherar Duvall, most people know him as Shaquise, Kingpin, Kingsley Waring, and LJ Chisholm. So the four of us pretty much, we just, you know, we were coming off the Wet Willys incident where they didn't want Hip-Hop to perform there, and we just wanted to show everybody what Hip-Hop was really about. We thought people may have Hip-Hop misconstrued, so we just wanted to show them what Hip-Hop was all about, and that's peace, love, unity, having fun, and no better way than to do it like they used to do it in old school. Columbia is, you know, it's the hometown. You know, I'm barely a transplant anymore now, so just for me, you know, the city's been really good to me as an artist, and so to celebrate the culture that has been, you know, so given to me in the city that has been given to me, I think it's a perfect match, you know. I don't think it should be anywhere else. Every city has its thing, and this is Columbia's thing, so I'm proud of that. Most of the stuff for this week, so it's essentially five days with the world famous Hip-Hop family day being Saturday, but starting on Wednesday the 11th Hip-Hop bounce house party at Aventure. Thursday is in conjunction with Indigrid, so which was a wonderful opportunity. It's a festival we worked with before, and we hadn't had a chance to work with them in a couple years, so to get back with them. That Thursday night show at TAPS three stages. I think it's about 12 or 13 bands. It's entitled Love, Grits, and Hip-Hop, so that's us collaborating on one. We're collaborating again on Sunday for Sunday dinner down in Hyde Park, so let's your boots up. It's gonna be a long week, but a lot of fun packed in, and that's free as well, so family day is free on Saturday, and a Sunday dinner is gonna be free as well down in Hyde Park. Friday, five to seven, we're doing a I Wanna Be Down, which is a women in the workplace, women in the in the market space. Entrepreneur women act actually, so we're doing something for all the women entrepreneurs to help them to get connected to not only resources, but other women like them that are trying to get some stuff off the ground. And later that night, we're honoring, which is wonderful and amazing, the first female rap group ever, which is right here from Columbia. We're honoring them on Friday along with the mayor for their 40 years in the game and how they kicked it off for women all over the place. Of course, we have an all-female line of that Saturday, headlined by MC Light, so this one obviously has a theme. We're doing this for the women through and through. You know, that's how in our priority to create a atmosphere and environment where parents feel good bringing their kids and and also kids feel good being with their parents because they don't want to be bored. You know, nobody wants to be bored with mom and dad, so we try to keep it high energy, but super clean, super fun, no alcohol at the family day so that, you know, everybody can enjoy themselves to the utmost. You don't need to know much about the music or the culture to see with two eyes that it moves people. And our festival starts at 11 o'clock. They will be dancing at 11. And I think that speaks to how fun it is, you know, and when our forefathers in the culture started this thing almost 50 years ago, it was all about us uniting and just having fun together, you know. And so we try to keep that spirit alive. So if you're anywhere close to the broadcast of this, you need to come on down, bring the whole family, load up the van and come on down and have a good time. Plenty of vendors do. A lot of food vendors, a lot of craft vendors. You're going to leave with with some good memories and some good memorabilia. All info will be on lovepiecehiphop.com and that I have your day of schedule for family day as well as the week's events and if there's any ticket links as well. Thank you for watching Destination Hometown. This is your man, Fat Rat Desire. And we hope to see you April 12th. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm giving you the wrong day. April 14th on Main Street. Main and Laurel will be getting down for the culture of peace, love, unity and having fun. Hope to see you there.