This week’s episode features HipHop4Change, an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses education, empowerment, and grassroots activism to increase the public’s access to inspiring cultural narratives. The first hour showcases Bay Area Hip Hop Artists, including Maddy “MADlines” Clifford, Nu Dekades, the Golden Age Society, Bambu, Khafre Jay, Hazel Rose, Alleyes Manifest, and AJ, the One. In the second half hour I am tickled with glee to welcome HipHop4Change’s Marlon Richardson. As Education Director, he talks about his role and the organization’s mission to persistently engage with the community in advocating Hip Hop as a means of building social consciousness. He addresses the need to develop a counter-narrative to corporate media’s grotesque array of negative stereotypes towards People of Color in Hip Hop music and culture, and to instead use its platform to inform and uplift.
Many thanks to Marlon! Learn more about HipHop4Change, and RSVP to Marlon’s upcoming FREE public lecture at Holy Names University in the Oakland Hills on September 29th from 10-12:30pm.
Playlist
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Movement Music by Kev Choice, Jennifer John's, Ryan Nicole, K.E.V., Antique Soul, Aisha Fukishima on Love & Revolution (Mind Over Matter) -
Kinfolk by Golden Age Society on G.A.S. Tape (S/R) -
As We Prey by Bambu on Prey for the Devil (S/R) -
Plant Justice by Khafre Jay on My First Real Album (S/R) -
Glass Jar by Alleyes Manifest, Brijean on James Waverly (637862 Records DK) -
Mr. Messed Up by Floetry on Floetic (Dreamworks Urban) -
Give Me What I Want by MC Lyte on Seven & Seven (Rhino/Elektra) -
Nexus by Nu Dekades on NEXUS (S/R) -
Silly Me by Hazel Rose (S/R) -
Cruisin by Hazel Rose on 5th Element (S/R) -
Why Don’t You by Cleo Sol (Forever Living Originals) -
Money Don’t Come by Khafre Jay on My First Real Album (S/R) -
Levitating by Xenia Rubinos, Sammus & Olga Bell (S/R) -
FEELINGS by MADlines on Wordplay (S/R) -
Waste Mxn by AJ, the One on Womxn (BLK MGK Ent)