"From the Block to the Top": A Hip Hop Journey

To kick off this season (an ode to those born and raised in the Bay Area), Khafre Jay takes the mic. He's a change-maker, community organizer, nonprofit worker, and Hip Hop Artist . As a Bay Area, Hunters Point activist fighting for racial and socioeconomic justice, he empowers community members to use their voices and resist structures of inequality—and he does so in large part through Hip Hop organizing. His passions for music, grassroots solutions, and community justice drove him to create the nonprofit Hip Hop For Change, which utilizes hip hop to break down barriers between youth and justice issues that affect their lives and communities. So far, he's employed over 1000 people in his community, educated over 30 thousand youth K-12, raised over 5 million dollars through grassroots means, and now he's coming for the rest of the nation.

Follow his work via IG @KhafreJay and through his personal website.

Beats were produced by local artists and musicians Monk HTS  and Evaclear.

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