“…Prior literature suggests that hip hop podcasts are “process texts” that allow artists to illustrate how their stories transcend entertainment and are intimately connected to their culture, identity, and community (Griffith, 2021; Griffith et al, 2022). Relatedly, various studies have explored the use of hip hop cultural processes like lyric writing, mixtape making, dancing, and studio construction as group work processes for students to explore their stories (Levy, 2019; Levy & Adjapong, 2020; Levy & Wong, 2022). Youth were able to be creative via this hip hop podcasting intervention, which is aligned with how Black and brown youth have historically leveraged hip hop as a tool to build resilience and combat racial inequities (Anyiwo et al, 2022).…”