Poet Deep on How Hip-hop Can Help Inform Political Engagement in Poor Communities of Color
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Baltimore Hip-hop artist Poet Deep (pictured above in a...
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Guy Grams on His Career in Baltimore Hip-hop, Battle Rapping versus Song Making, and Upcoming Album ‘The Consigliere’
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Baltimore Hip-hop artist Guy Grams (above in a courtesy...
Danja Mowf on Classic ‘Word of Mowf,’ Development as Hip-hop Artist During 90s
Hip-hop veteran Danja Mowf recently joined StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro to discuss his classic underground Hip-hop album,...
K Mack KnokVille on Twenty-Two Years in Baltimore Hip-hop
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Baltimore’s K Mack KnokVille, whose new mixtape ‘Legendary’ will...
Star Giovanni, HLVII Kira, and HLVII Mack on the Real
StayUp.News is proud to present the firs episode of “on the Real”, an exploration of the relationship between...
Last Born Child, Baltimore Hip-hop Artist, Discusses A Career in Rap That Has Touched Three Decades
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with Baltimore Hip-hop artist Last Born Child, for a discussion...
Chris Cook Discusses Rhythm Key, Summer Programming Initiative for Youth with Challenges Like Autism
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto Alejandro recently sat down with Chris Cook (pictured above, left, with her daughter), founder of...
In Memoriam: The Death of Freddie Gray and the Value of Black Life in Baltimore
By Roberto E. Alejandro, Editor-in-Chief Around noon on Sunday, April 19, 2015, I was sitting in my living...
“Free Young Blood”
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down with filmmaker and youth advocate Bobby Marvin Holmes to discuss...
Rhetoric/Reality: the Formerly Incarcerated
By Roberto E. Alejandro, Editor-in-Chief Not too long ago, I sat down with Marcus Toles and Reginald Smith-Bey,...