We recently organized an Urban Music Panel to discuss the local hip hop scene with students of Dr. Felicia Miyakawa’s Hip Hop Music and Culture class at Middle Tennessee State University.

This week’s podcast is the audio from the discussion and the cypher at the end. Please excuse places in the audio that are cut out or repeat. We will have more content from the event coming soon.

Panelists include:

• Latino Saint of LAFA Music
• Capo of International Underground Marketing and Concrete Magazine
• Tim Hill – engineer/producer/musician/turntablist
• Kelly Hite – photographer, all around bad ass
• KABY- artist
• Ducko McFli – producer/artist
• Rio – producer/singer/songwriter
• and myself (Joshua Smotherman)

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At the end of the panel the students joined in for one of the best cyphers I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. It was a great day for Middle Tennessee Hip Hop.

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