By: Jarrod Horton
Staff Writer
The number one question that I was asked when I told people that I was attending the A3C Festival in Atlanta was ‘what is that?’ A3C Executive Director Mike Walbert said A3C stands for “all three coasts”. “So A3C, not AC3, stands for all three coasts, and it represents the three coasts of hip-hop. I mean hip-hop got started in the east and then took off to the west. We like to think that a moment that put hip hop on the map and really solidified the south as a cultural, and hip-hop capital was when Andre 3000 went on stage in 1995 and said, ‘the south got something to say’,” Walbert told Alive last year.