When youth and youth influencers engage with hip hop culture in its most indigenous form, the goal is to engage, (re)create, and curate something.  That “something” might be an idea, a concept, a skill or talent, or an artifact such as vinyl records or visual art. From this perspective, hip hop culture can be defined as an expressive artform with both educational and technological imperatives for sustaining itself as a tool or medium for teaching and learning.HipHop2020 is the curriculum development arm of the Four Four Beat Project. For the last seven years, HipHop2020 has worked with a range of organizations, schools, and post-secondary institutions to create innovative programming that utilizes hip hop based aesthetic practices (such as DJing, MCing, graffiti art, and breakdancing), pop culture, and new technologies such as Facebook and Twitter as tools for teaching and learning in formal, informal, and non-formal learning environments. With the recent acquisition of hip hop based artifacts, our focus has grown from authentic leadership development and social justice awareness to exposure to STEM opportunities  in K-12 and post-secondary learning environments. Our main collaborator on STEM-based programming is Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. We believe there is a science and art to hip hop-based pedagogies that – when used effectively – can make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics more accessible and applicable to the next generation of innovators, artists, and thought leaders.From this perspective, the primary aim of HipHop2020 is to bring clarity (20/20) to the constructive elements of hip hop-based education through curriculum development and artifact preservation, conservation, and access.  The educational principles that guide our curriculum work are rooted in truth, honesty, reciprocity, balance, order, justice, and righteousness. Working with teachers, educators, students, and other youth/youth influencers, we seek to create a capacity for change at the local community level, thereby growing our capacity to influence change at the national and global level.