Hip-Hop Can Save America The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy / Manny Faces Media

On this brief update episode, creator and host Manny Faces talks about what's next for the Hip-Hop Can Save America! podcast. (HINT: It has to do with going live!)
Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.
Links and resources:
SHOW WEBSITES:
https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
MANNY FACES: https://www.mannyfaces.com
NEWSLETTER (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.com
SUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
Manny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.com
The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org
SPONSORS / FRIENDS:
The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.org
Hip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.com
Hip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, smacked, flipped, rubbed down, and distributed by Manny Faces.
Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer.

"If our democracy is to survive, the empire must be dismantled.” That’s what Dr. Cornel West told Manny Faces and his colleagues at News Beat in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview in which he talked about dismantling systems of oppression, uplifting the poor and working class, ending America’s military industrial complex, and abolishing poverty, homelessness, and prisons. West, who is vying for the Green Party nomination for U.S. President, said his third-party bid is also about putting an end to the corporate duopoly and dismissed claims that a candidate outside of the two-party system can’t win. He also said he’s entering the race not just to introduce new ideas but to fight for marginalized people, vowing to take on anyone who is hostile to the struggle of working people and those on the front-line of disastrous conflicts.
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Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.
Links and resources:
EPISODE LINKS:
News Beat: https://newsbeat.substack.com
UNFTR: https://www.unftr.com
SHOW WEBSITES:
https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org/podcast
https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
MANNY FACES: https://www.mannyfaces.com
NEWSLETTER (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.com
SUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
Manny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.com
The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org
SPONSORS / FRIENDS:
The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.org
Hip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.com
Hip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, smacked, flipped, rubbed down, and distributed by Manny Faces.
Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer.

Dr. A.D. Carson, who is Associate Professor of Hip Hop at the University of Virginia, received quite a bit of well deserved acclaim for his dissertation, “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions,” which was delivered as an exceptional rap album. But first and foremost, AyDeeTheGreat is a rapper, an artist, and sits in a unique position with one foot in the music world, and another firmly inside academia.
A.D. provides brilliant insight on this intersection, as well as other ways Hip Hop music and culture should be valued -- both inside and outside of the classroom.
#hiphop #education #culture
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Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.
Links and resources:
EPISODE LINKS:
AyDeeTheGreat: https://www.aydeethegreat.com
A.D. on IG: https://www.instagram.com/aydeethegreat
SHOW WEBSITES:
https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org/podcast
https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
MANNY FACES: https://www.mannyfaces.com
NEWSLETTER (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.com
SUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
Manny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.com
The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org
SPONSORS / FRIENDS:
The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.org
Hip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.com
Hip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, smacked, flipped, rubbed down, and distributed by Manny Faces.
Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer.
Mentioned in this episode:
Sponsor shoutout

Mikal Amin Lee is a three time visitor to the show, which isn’t a surprise when you learn about all he does. As an artist, he’s toured the world and dropped dozens of projects and features. As an educator, he’s taught and lectured about Hip Hop pedagogy and anthropology, as a writer and essayist he’s edited Hip Hop studies journal, “Words, Beats & Life,” and “Equity and Excellence in Education” from UMass Amherst and he writes for Words, Beats & Life’s blog, The Counter Balance, and as a cultivator of the culture, he is the co-curator of the annual Word. Sound Power. Hip Hop & spoken word performance series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.
Links and resources:
EPISODE LINKS:
Word. Sound. Power. @ BAM: https://www.bam.org/word-sound-power-2023
Mikal Amin on IG: www.instagram.com/mikalamin_frm
Words, Beats & Life: https://www.wblinc.org
SHOW WEBSITES:
https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org/podcast
https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
MANNY FACES: https://www.mannyfaces.com
NEWSLETTER (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.com
SUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
Manny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.com
The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org
SPONSORS / FRIENDS:
The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.org
Hip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.com
Hip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, smacked, flipped, rubbed down, and distributed by Manny Faces.
Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer.

Rumble, DJ Akademiks and the hidden danger of platforming so-called "Hip Hop" provocateurs

Words, Beats & Life is a Hip Hop non-profit founded back in 2002. In its 20+ years, it has evolved and expanded, offering classes, workshops, showcases, festivals and conferences, not to mention creating the first peer-reviewed academic Hip Hop journal, and now, anointing the first ever 'rap laureate.' (SPOILER ALERT: It's Lupe Fiasco.)
Under the leadership of founding executive director, Mazi Mutafa, WBL has created something of a blueprint for how a Hip Hop-based non-profit should operate. While they are primarily focused on the Washington D.C. area, it's clear that their impact has been felt far and wide.
On the cusp of their 7th Words, Beats & Life Festival, Mazi joined Manny Faces for a conversation about all of these evolutions and revolutions.
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Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in conjunction with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.
Links and resources:
Show website: https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com
Manny Faces: https://www.mannyfaces.com
Newsletter (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.com
SUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces
Manny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.com
The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.org
SPONSORS / FRIENDS
The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.org
Hip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.com
Hip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, and distributed by Manny Faces.
Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer.
Mentioned in this episode:
Sponsor shoutout