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ConceptHHPA offers preventative outreach after school program where creativity, leadership, and community service is emphasized. HHSA is a curriculum based on all of the Elements of hip-hop that will be taught through programs and workshops all year round by a qualified staff. Studet’s will learn a strong work ethic and will be able to carry that skill into their chosen professional goals. HHPA provides dedicated DJin’, MCin’ and Beat Boxin’, B-boyin’, Poppin’ and Lockin’, Hip Hop Dance and Urban Art departments with state of the arts equipment, recording studio and dance floors including a hip-hop library for those who want to learn and /or themselves in the art of hip-hop.Hip Hop Performing Arts will be working with the Boys & Girls Club of Pomona Valley in order to develop an innovative series of high yield learning activities to really inspire members who are academically challenged in a traditional school setting. Members who are not attracted to traditional education will find excitement and inspiration to learn more through the use of Hip Hop. In a completely new light, they will be exposed to and learn about math, reading, measurement concepts and more.


Why We Exist: The purpose of the Hip Hop Performing Arts is to:

  • Educate and provide guidance to the hip-hop culture
  • Play a key role and make invaluable contributions towards reducing crime, gang affiliation, youth incarceration, drug abuse, violence, and vandalism.
  • Empower and develop the confidence, commitment, passion, vision, and focus to reach their dreams.
  • Preserve, develop, and cultivate youth with all Elements of the hip-hop culture.


The HHSA is committed to:

  • Providing a peaceful and safe environment where young artists, athletes, and the curious alike are challenged to explore, develop, and flourish in their chosen expression of Hip Hop
  • Connecting youth to opportunities with companies and organizations for potential employment where the skills, talents and abilities they have developed at HHSA can be utilized
  • Forming community partnerships with a wide range of organizations including those for education and career, self-empowerment seminars, health, nutrition, job opportunity services, and career counseling;
  • Leading Hip Hop into a new era of youth empowerment and social service.


The Challenges Facing Our Community
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, “During the last five years, there were over 23,000 verified violent gang crimes in the City of Los Angeles.” The City has experienced “an epidemic of youth violence that has been rapidly spreading from the inner cities to the suburbs. Gangs are no longer just the problem of those who live in the crime ridden neighborhoods where the gangs thrive. They are now everyone’s problem.”

City officials have pledged in 2012 to better direct and expand the city’s existing 23 gang prevention and intervention programs. Former Gang Reduction and Youth Development Director of Los Angeles, Rev. Jeff Carr told a news conference, “We can’t arrest our way out of this problem. We have got to figure out how to provide opportunities to communities who have been bypassed for years.”