Hip-hop people

Lenard Larry McKelvey (born June 29, 1978), known professionally as Charlamagne tha God, is an American radio presenter, television personality, and author. He is a co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy and Angela Yee, and was featured on Guy Code, Guy Court and Girl Code. He was also a VJ for The Week in Jams with DJ Envy and Sofi Green. In 2015, Charlamagne began hosting the short-lived MTV2 show Uncommon Sense. He was previously on The Wendy Williams Experience with Wendy Williams on VH1. In the Shock jock tradition, one of Charlamagne's personal mantras is "bite my tongue for no one."

Martha Diaz is a community organizer, media producer, archivist, curator, social entrepreneur, and adjunct professor at New York University's Gallatin School. From 2002-2012, Diaz served as chair and executive director of the Hip-Hop Association, and produced the H2O International Film Festival and Hip-Hop Education Summit. In 2008, Diaz was the recipient of the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Diaz founded the Hip-Hop Education Center for research, evaluation, and training. Diaz was a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and a Hip-Hop Scholar at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library. In September 2014, Diaz was selected as a Community Scholar at Columbia University.

Tricia Rose (born 1962) is an American academic. She is Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Rose has examined, taught, and written about U.S. black culture through a sociological framework, especially with respect to the intersectionality of pop music, social issues, gender and sexuality.

Dr. Joycelyn Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Humanities in the Black Media Studies cohort, located in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication in the Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As an educational anthropologist, Wilson is an expert in African-American music and performance - with particular interests in contemporary modes of cultural production in the American South and Hip Hop in general, as well as their broad impact on higher education. She is also the founder and CEO of the HipHop2020 Archive and Innovation Lab, an educational resources design studio inspired by the Hip Hop Archive.

Soren Baker is an American journalist who has spent his career covering hip-hop. Best known for his six years as one of the main editors of The Source, Baker has had more than 3,500 articles published in such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, XXL, The Source, HipHopDX and RedBullUSA.com.

Jas Waters (October 21, 1980 – June 9, 2020), also known as Jas Fly, was an American screenwriter and journalist. She was a staff writer for the television series This Is Us and also wrote for The Breaks, Hood Adjacent with James Davis, and Kidding. Waters was a journalist in the hip hop industry, writing a digital column for Vibe Vixen in the early 2010s and starring in the reality show The Gossip Game. She advocated for the importance of black writers in the film and television industry. Waters was born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised by her grandmother in a senior home. After graduating from Evanston Township High School, she attended Columbia College Chicago. She died of suicide by hanging on June 9, 2020, in Los Angeles County, California.

Amandeep Singh known by the stage name Djay Adx, (Previously known as Adx) is an Indian Hip-Hop Producer and Rap Artist from New Delhi, India. He is best known for his role in #HipHopIsHipHop which is a Hip Hop version of "We Are The World" charity single. He has been part of Indian mufor more than asic industry decade now. He is a trained DJ by the Midnight Blues Camp. He is also one of the first and foremost Indian DJs to be Certified by music equipment’s brand Pioneer Corporation, Japan. He is a certified Music Production Professional from BeatFactory Academy. Adx specializes in producing Urban Desi Music and is also the owner of India’s first Desi Hip-Hop Crew Nau Sau Bai aka 922; to have a track played on Indian mainstream television channels followed by a full length interview on PTC Punjabi and BBC Asian Network.

Cameron "Cam Kirk" Kirkland (born February 27, 1989), is a photographer and videographer. Cam Kirk worked with and produced work for many hip hop artists such as Young Jeezy, T.I., Monica, 2 Chainz, Mike Will Made It, Estelle, Schoolboy Q, Future, Gucci Mane and many more.

Awol Erizku (born 1988) is an Ethiopian-American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City & Los Angeles. His primary media are painting, photography, sculpture and Film. Erizku works with a wide variety of found materials. Erizku was dubbed "The Art World’s New 'It' Boy" by Vulture Magazine.

Remi Kanazi (born 1981) is a Palestinian-American performance poet, writer and organizer based in New York City. He is the editor of the anthology of hip hop, poetry and art, Poets for Palestine (2008), the author of two collections of poetry, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine (2011) and Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up From Brooklyn to Palestine (2015). His political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world, including the New York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera English, and BBC Radio. He has appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a Lannan Residency Fellow and is on the advisory committee for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.