Rob Base

Rob Base is an American Hip Hop artist from Harlem. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock are best known for their 1988 hit “It Takes Two,” a Top 40 hit that has been certified platinum by the RIAA and was ranked 37 on VH1’s Greatest songs of Hip Hop. That song was part of the duo’s album of the same name, which has also been certified platinum seven times over. Rob Base is known as a pioneer for his crossover success into mainstream music that rap and Hip Hop have achieved. Rob Base’s second follow-up hit was “Joy and Pain,” which hit the top 19 on the dance chart and reached No. 58 on the Hot 100. His third hit “Get On the Dance Floor” was No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/club Play chart in 1989. Base released a solo album in 1989 called The Incredible Base and another album in 1994 called Break of Dawn.

Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is an American rapper known for his yells of “Yeah, boyeee!” while performing, as well as the large clocks worn around his neck. He rose to prominence as a founding member of the legendary rap group Public Enemy alongside Chuck D. Public Enemy has earned six Grammy Award nominations and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After many years outside the limelight, Flavor Flav starred in multiple VH1 reality shows including The Surreal Life, Strange Love, and Flavor of Love, which aired for three seasons. Public Enemy’s first album Yo! Bum Rush the Show was released in 1987 where Flavor Flav was the comic foil to Chuck D’s more serious, politically-charged style. Their next album released in 1988 “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” went double platinum, which included the massive hit “Fight the Power.” In 2006, Flav released his first solo album titled Flavor Flav. 

Dylan Ratigan

Dylan Ratigan is a veteran of financial and cable news, a New York Times best-selling author, filmmaker and impact entrepreneur. An expert in the global financial system, Ratigan ran Corporate Finance globally at Bloomberg LP, before leaving to serve 9 years as a host and show creator at CNBC and MSNBC. Ratigan left broadcasting in 2012 to invest directly in the efforts to finance, design and implement the shift in global infrastructure and resources. In 2013, he founded Helical Holdings to integrate and design water, food,energy and communication systems into a globally portable unit capable of operating on only sun and water. 

In that time Ratigan visited more the 50 nations from Myanmar to Boliva developing relationships and learning local realities in the face of both disaster and abundance. In the process, he witnessed first hand the critical need to adapt in order to avert disaster, and sees the opportunity to change local infrastructure sustainably evolve communities in a rapidly shifting environment. Ratigan is a partner and advisor at Epiphany Srl, Unbranded Pictures, The SOIL Fund, Golden Triangle Industrial Hemp Company, Hotel Planner and Prosperise Asset Management.

DJ Dalton

DJ/Producer Dalton Loughlin [DJ DL] was born and raised in New York City. His father was the manager of the China Club in the late 80's early 90's, as well as a long list of A list night clubs in New York City, Los Angeles, and Aspen Colorado. DL grew up in a house where nightlife was looked at as a serious business. He has developed a name as a solid dj, who can rock any genre of crowd that you put in front of him. Please keep your eyes and ears open for this young hungry talent.