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Contestant #3: Gripp

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To use music to spread awareness of overlooked societal issues and foster social change.

Biography:

My name is Gripp, and I don't own a gun. I've never been shot, nor shot at. I never sold drugs, and I'm not in a gang. But I rap. For some reason, people find that strange; I don't think they should. In an age when rap music is dominated by exaggerated icons of masculinity and emotionlessness, I find myself standing for a different ideal: change. Change for this music, which demonizes its performers. Change for the cities that breed children to idolize murderers. Change for our country, a country whose policy it is to ignore entire segments of its population, hungry and desperate for help. Hip-hop culture, rap music, was born from struggle, as a release and an escape, as a cry for help. I want to see hip-hop return to that, but more importantly, I want to see the conditions that caused hip-hop to be created resolved.

I’m a lyricist, so let me put it this way: “I hope to help bring growth and knowledge to those impoverished, / to kids without a reasonable chance to go to college, / so they can understand why The Man won’t let them profit / and fight the censorship that is closing all their eyelids.”

My name is Gripp. I intend to be heard.

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