04-18-2014 It was a Friday in a Tallahassee hip hop class.  We decided to do class a little differently. Instead of going through a breaking technique we did a cypher and watched a breaking documentary. I knew I had no real interesting footage about bgirls, but I wasn’t sure they were going to notice. when I put […]

I HOPE YOU ALL CAN SEE THIS INJUSTICE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE…I HOPE YOU SEE THAT THIS IS CONTINUED GENOCIDE OF A PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN SO DEHUMANIZED THE ORGANIZERS OF HISTORY WON’T EVEN RESPECT US BY CALLING OUR SLAUGHTERING WHAT IT IS…GENOCIDE…REMINDS ME OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ACT WHEN ANIMALS ARE KILLED, LIKE THEY DON’T […]

Emcee and longtime friend GlokStar Boss aka Mr. Hill on a Hip Hop Pioneer’s lecture, “He just gets paid for rambling,” – Mr. Hill YES. This is exactly what happened at a lecture by Professor Griff on the Music and Entertainment Industry. That was the one of the most hateful lectures I’ve ever sat in! (Next […]

October 11th is Day of the Girl. We must end these poisonous ways of thinking. We have to END domestic violence, sexual assault (all forms of harassment), rape, acid attacks, rape culture, child brides,victim blaming, societal double standards, stereotypes, FGM, no access to medical care (people let girls die because they don’t see them as […]

Women In Rhyme Women emcees are rarely highlighted. So much that outsiders believe womyn don’t exist in culture. This is a wolrd cultural problem. The Jukeboxx Movement seeks to change this. Please share their names and music. If you see any women missing, well-known or unknown, please comment below so they can be added to this […]

I know it’s a given. You all are probably saying “well, duh Jukeboxx!” but NO…I’ve been listening to this man since before Juvenile’s 400 Degreez. His underground music back in the day didn’t have the extreme mysogyny that it has today (or the complete lack of common sense aside from the random clever bars, which […]

India has changed my concept of freedom and peace. In India I found the “unorganized” traffic to be peaceful. There were no traffic lights, lines on the road or sidewalks in many parts of the city.  And the best thing: no police harassment or fear that I would be pulled over because of my identity. […]

Hi, my name is Ansley and I have 7 more days until India!  This is an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It’s called Next Level. Next Level artists have gone through a […]