A Change Is Gonna Come: A Personal Reflection By Justin Cook
By: Justin Cook I stood out in the cold. The snow had just finished falling; East Lansing was blanketed in stillness. School let out a few days ago, and most people went home for the holiday season....
View ArticleHip-Hop and Transformative Teaching for the Community: Bonus Cut Visits...
By: Daniel Hodgman On Saturday, Gus and I headed over to Brody on the campus of Michigan State University to attend the Urban Literacies Institute for Transformative Teaching (ULITT), an annual event...
View ArticleAn Emotional Night of Hip-Hop’s Finest: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib at The Metro
By: Daniel Hodgman It was around 7pm on Friday when I found myself walking along Addison Street in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood when I stopped at the Clark Street junction. In front of me,...
View ArticleBonus Cut Films Presents: An Interview With James Gardin (Part One)
If you’re at all familiar with Michigan hip-hop and Michigan music in general, then the name James Gardin (fka P.H.I.L.T.H.Y.) is commonplace. As one of Lansing’s premier music icons for the last...
View ArticleBonus Cut Films Presents: An Interview With James Gardin (Part Two)
If you’re at all familiar with Michigan hip-hop and Michigan music in general, then the name James Gardin (fka P.H.I.L.T.H.Y.) is commonplace. As one of Lansing’s premier music icons for the last...
View ArticlePushing the Tracks: “VIVA PALESTINA” by Sacramento Knoxx
By: Sacramento Knoxx “What the world is witnessing is a colonial regime using its deadly power to crush a people’s will to resist.” -Lulu Palestina, Palestinian poet from Oakland in the Bay Area. I...
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