Let the Playahs Play: Hip Hop Gains It’s Own Card Trivia Game with the Fantastically Executed Initiative of @PullYourCard

Indeed, many people will pull your card in this lifetime.

Luckily, that doesn’t always have to be the bad thing. Pull Your Card Trivia, available everywhere now, definitely captures this feeling of being challenged, a common cultural happening of Hip Hop Culture that has helped it evolve today.

I sat down in an interview with Harold V. Lee of Connecticut regarding the innovative and fun game that I saw while at the 13th International Hip-Hop Festival conference last weekend. Pull Your Card Trivia is a card trivia game testing your knowledge on music culture, with the current set out now testing individuals’ knowledge of Hip Hop culture from the 1970s to today (and not just with surface-level questions). The origins of Pull Your Card Trivia started in 2016. Harold Lee and his wonderful spouse, Marsha Lee, would go to trivia night every Thursday, and although his team would perform well in the group competition, Harold, like a true innovator, saw a problem and decided to act on it. He noticed that there were no Hip Hop trivia games around, and the Hip Hop geared questions within the trivia were questions that any culture vulture or someone who didn’t know much about Hip Hop could even answer. Yes, Tone Loc is cool, but it’s boring to keep seeing their names as if they were the only prominent Hip Hop group in the 1980s fusing elements of Rock and Hip Hop.

Harold Lee passed the concept by his wife, Marsha Lee.

Mrs.Lee, a university librarian, did the proper research, grammatical editing and gathering resources for the project.

Working as a team (*sheds a heartfelt tear in lieu of Black Love fused with Black entrepreneurship*), Pull Your Card Trivia official started in 2017.

I asked Mr.Lee more about the game. The logo for Pull Your Card Trivia, as of the moment, is a logo like Monopoly that can be made into a new brand new deck if they choose to do different genres that are underrepresented in mainstream Trivia games (such as Reggae or Soca) in the future. The game comes with questions about the culture of Hip Hop from 1979-2017, including the four elements of Hip Hop, unironically capitalizing on the secret Fifth Element of Knowledge. It’s a double-sized deck with two questions per card and 180 questions including skip card-all for a timeless value of $15.

An incredible thing about Hip Hop is that Hip Hop has its own culture in its own right on a global/historical level that has not ever been seen before that capitalizes on more than just the music. Hip Hop, as a growing culture, has had to fight for its respect inside the music industry, economic standing in the world, political standing, feminist standing, academic standing, formal art standing and more. Thus, this entrepreneurship is a form of activism from the Lee family by finally giving Hip Hop a space and stake inside the adult gaming industry-which is revolutionary in itself all for a cheap and affordable market price. If you support Harold Lee and Marsha Lee, and by supporting Pull Your Card Trivia, you are not only supporting black businesses but the development of Hip Hop as it continues to take over the world in the greatest way possible.

One can find the card game available to buy at pullyourcardtrivia.com , on Twitter and Instagram @PullYourCard and Facebook at Pull Your Card Trivia.

Hip Hop Hooray!