Episode Liner Notes
For our second episode, Wes Jackson sat down with Sophia Chang live, onstage at BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn as part of BRIC’s Hip-Hop Weekend in February. Sophia is a public speaker, mentor, screenwriter, and author of “The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir”. Sophia calls herself a “matriarchitect”. Over the course of her career in the music business, she managed Ol’ Dirty Bastard, RZA, GZA, D’Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Q Tip, and A Tribe Called Quest.
Together, Sophia and Wes discussed mentorship, aging, and the physical and spiritual practice of Kung Fu. Back to Reading Credits is hosted by Wes Jackson and produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Raynita Vaughn, Chris Torres, Gabrielle Davenport, and Antoine Hardy, with help from Michael Carroll, Morgan Smith, Leslie Hayes, José Astorga, Antonio Rosario, KerriAnn Eng, Raeshon Roberson, Morgan Hammel, Wayne Hassell, Kevin Tinsley, Naim Vann, Harris Awan, Elyse Rodriguez Aleman, Charlie Hoxie, and Kuye Youngblood.
Show Liner Notes
Back To Reading Credits is a 6-episode audiovisual series from BRIC Radio celebrating the first 50 years of Hip-Hop and the people behind the curtain who drive the culture. On the show, BRIC President Wes Jackson interviews scholars, artists, executives, thought leaders, and other unsung heroes of the movement about how they shaped the look, feel, and flow of Hip-Hop, and about how Hip-Hop shapes us.
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