Bonita Applebum Remix by Midwest Group I.V (Truth & A.D the Great)

Bonita Applebum (2011)

Fresh Beats from Snoop to Euripides, by UVA graduate student Abigail Bradford, is an experiment in telling stories about the past by highlighting similarities between the ancient and modern worlds.  The ancient Greeks were not static, faceless entities but rather thinking and feeling people with their own individual tastes, beliefs, and motivations.  This piece aids in breathing life back into these long-gone people and in showing just how surprisingly consistent humans are over thousands of years.

Produced with support from the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.

Fresh Beats from Snoop to Euripides

Generic Disturbance is a collaborative group of student composers at the University of Virginia that came together in Professor A.D. Carson’s
Composing Mixtapes class. They chose their name because of existing cultures where students are encouraged to make change, but only in ways that don’t truly rock the boat. Over the past three months (the Spring 2023 semester) they have been working together on the project “On My Honor.” This album is based on UVA’s stringent honor code, which requires students to pledge “On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment” before every assignment. Until 2022, students could be expelled from the university for a single violation of this code. Throughout “On My Honor,” Generic Disturbance aims to narrate the student college experience from many angles, including relationships, fraternity culture, academics, and more. They examine the contradictions of existing at a university that uses hip-hop to claim diversity while continuing to ignore the histories of oppression that are an inextricable part of what it means to be a student at UVA. 

The album making process included discussions about how the existence of the class relates to the university at large and the Charlottesville community. Fifteen unique voices were involved in the creation of this album, whether that meant beat-making, lyric-writing, producing, creative direction, album art, and the actual vocals themselves. Generic Disturbance is proud to present “On My Honor.”

Jim Rhymin

Vacay

Toast

Post grad depression is real. Dedicated to #UVA19

Many Friends (Prod. Illuid Haller)

Beast Out The Cage (Prod. By Deion_Trae)

This podcast was written, produced and edited by Chenjerai Kumanyika. Special thanks to Matthew Telles, and Gig Workers Collective. 

Music by Jay Electronica, Radiohead, John Murphy and Lucas Biewen.

Jim Rhymin

The Rap Lab at UVA

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