Our new album "Drop the Lead" is an exploration of the two lead problems that face our community on the East side of Cleveland: lead paint and gun violence. 1 in 20 in Flint Michigan have been poisoned by lead. In the Glenville neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio it's 1 in 3. While we work with the Greater University Circle Community Health Initiative to raise awareness and promote solutions to this tragedy, students and families seem much more focused on gun violence and concerned with police brutality. We are hosting conversations between police and teens to try to find solutions to our gun problems as well as improve teen-police relations. Our leadership team of students age 15-20 worked alongside our professional artist producers to produce a t-shirt line and full CD of songs articulating our learning and our message to "Drop the Lead" and further health and safety in our neighborhoods.

Drop the Lead

Two Points Of View

Silent Killer

Same Side

Overcome

Lead Light

Music by Hiqhlife Dee, Lee Harrill and Dee Jay Doc. Lyrics by Hiqhlife Dee and Dee Jay Doc. Our new album "Drop the Lead" is an exploration of the two lead problems that face our community on the East side of Cleveland: lead paint and gun violence. 1 in 20 in Flint Michigan have been poisoned by lead. In the Glenville neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio it's 1 in 3. While we work with the Greater University Circle Community Health Initiative to raise awareness and promote solutions to this tragedy, students and families seem much more focused on gun violence and concerned with police brutality. We are hosting conversations between police and teens to try to find solutions to our gun problems as well as improve teen-police relations. Our leadership team of students age 15-20 worked alongside our professional artist producers to produce a t-shirt line and full CD of songs articulating our learning and our message to "Drop the Lead" and further health and safety in our neighborhoods.

I Pray

Forgotten Homes

Bullet

Best Days

Behind Walls

Bad Views

Nonprofit hip-hop songwriting programs for young people. Based in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio!

Thank you to the Cleveland Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Cuyahoga Arts Council, Starting Point, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, Hamilton County Youth Resiliency, Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and the Haile Foundation for their generous support of Refresh Collective.