JAYARE - YOUTH CULTURE POWER

For listeners, Youth Culture Power by  Jay ARE consists of J Rawls  produced, jazz-infused hip-hop tracks over  which the emcees rhyme  poetic on the state of educating inner city youth  today. Rawls and  Robinson list the many challenges; like  culturally-biased standardized  tests, the whitewashing of history in  textbooks and the cutting of  resources, but counter with a wealth of  solutions; like relating to  students, implementing new techniques in the  classroom and simply being  attentive to the happenings of their lives.  The wordplay within every  verse is weighted with the tenets of Youth Culture Pedagogy (YCP), and   sound bites from educators and scholars with foundational schools of   thought, like Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Dr. Jocelyn Wilson, Martha   Diaz and Dr. Christopher Emdin, are laced throughout this musical   journey. The project stays true to their musical craft as well as their   educational message, welcoming longtime fans of their music in  addition  to educators and administrators.