The Focus: Mental Health

  • Early adulthood is often a stressful developmental stage, as it is characterized by major changes in independence, housing, family and social relationships, identity, and work demands.

  • Many emerging adults who identify as BIPOC are exposed to high levels of racism and discrimination which can cause significant impacts to the health and wellbeing of young people.

  • Culturally-centered approaches to healing can help to address mental health in young adults who often face stigma when seeking mental healthcare.

The Research Gap

Despite growing research on Hip Hop in education and counseling spaces, public health research has largely overlooked how Hip Hop creative practices function as data and knowledge about youth mental health.

Grounded in Hip Hop, participants engage in dialogue, music exploration, writing, freestyling, and multimodal art-making to explore mental health and structural inequities, imagining more just futures.

Hip Hop as Healing and Expression

Hip Hop is so much more than a music genre. It is a culturally grounded practice rooted in African and Indigenous knowledge systems that supports holistic health, healing, and wellbeing.

Knowledge of Self

Centers cultural awareness, critical reflection, and collective responsibility as tools for meaning-making, healing, and critical analysis of social conditions.

The Healing Frequencies Studio Crew

  • Blu Berri Moore

    Blu Berri Moore is a drag artist serving bold looks, poet emotion, and real storytelling. She blends performance, drama, and personality to create moments that are both entertaining and honest. Her art is about confidence, transformation, and showing up fully, every time.

    IG: bluberrimoore

  • James

    Bio coming soon!

  • Jaydynn

    Jaydynn is an artist who turns vulnerability into something you can feel, not just hear. He creates genre fusion, blending raw storytelling with emotional sound to create music that lives between confession and release, reflecting identity, love, pressure, and growth, real life, no filter.

    IG: buildaboyjaydynn

  • SluggerVille Slick

    SluggerVille Slick is a producer with many different styles, from Trap, Rage, R&B and Genre Fusions, his craft is about making moments, creating feelings and emotions and connections.

    IG: sluggervilleslick

  • Swazy

    Bio coming soon!

  • Tayy

    Bio coming soon!