Past Event Photos
Ingredience Radio
Ingredience Anonymous

Mission Statement
Ingredience wants to make hip-hop practical, deconstruct the mysticism of the music industry for the artist, redefine the artist to the patron, and make positive conscious music.

Mystory History
Ingredience has always existed. No one knows its origins, but it has a heavy presence in Richmond Virginia. I believe it to be a disease I contracted in October '02 when awkwardly combining hip-hop and punk ideals: punk rock input/hip-hop output.

Prior to diagnosis, this disease became an epidemic by merely expressing these ideas to my friend and bantam Frank. Ingredience used Frank's and my own brain as incubators. The symptoms were obvious, we were talking about starting a magazine called Ingredience. Everyone we talked to became infected including Bizhan, a local graphic designer.

By January '03 the magazine was availible to the public, Ingredience was holding weekly open mics and monthly magazine release shows. As a result, more doors were opening in Richmond for hip-hop. Ingredience is a disease that attaches to the belief system. The people in Richmond were changing the the way they viewed hip-hop.

Summer '03: my band Tiger Bomb spread the disease to about 35 states on tour. When we returned in the fall, hip-hop had taken over Richmond.

October '03: Ingredience began another incubation period in my thoughts. I locked myself in my house and made endless phone calls. Tickets were dropped off via UPS. Bizhan and Lindsay, now a design team, would periodically stop by with 500, sometimes 800 flyers at a time. Jason and others would pick up tickets and flyers, but I wasn't sure why. Ingredience had stopped filling me in altogether.

Then one day I find myself mindlessly collecting tickets, which is insignificant, until Bizhan and Lindsay run in, apologizing for being late, and hand me a box of programs for some sort of festival. The program boasts of $2,500 prizes for MC, DJ, B-boy/girl battles and a poetry slam, 20 bands, 15 local artists, 10 workshops, massage therapy and soul food in the basement, and at that moment I smelled it, the food! A volunteer relieved me from the door and suggested I introduce the first band.

-Rasul the Nobody

Ingredience Radio
Ingredience Radio is a mock radio broadcast airing the latest in the Richmond hip-hop scene. Featuring local Richmond artists and some underground favorites. Ingredience will also keep the listener updated with current events (past and up coming). Piloted in September, the broadcast is planned to actually be broadcast on air on 97.3FM WRIR Richmond Indy Radio January 2005. It will also be Distributed at Ingredience Anonymous (Contact Rasul about advertising with Ingredience Radio.)

Ingredience Anonymous
This group is a weekly pot luck open mic at Chop Suey Books. It goes on from 3-7pm every Wednesday for the community to gather and share.

Here are some images from January's Ingredience Festival:

Contact Ingredience by email: ingrediencezine@hotmail.com
Contact Ingredience by phone: (804) 928-1770