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Download the new Blake Brandes album SCHOLAR (featuring Joe "Focus" Martinez and including footnoted lyrics) for free

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Download the full Soulfire album for free

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Dr. Blake Brandes is a consultant, hip-hop educator, producer, composer, rapper, beatboxer, DJ, breakdancer, and Marshall Scholar. He received his PhD from the University of Kent and is currently running Decrypt Productions, a music production and strategic consulting company. His research interests include intergenerational communication, the connections between language, identity, and commitment in hip-hop culture, the commoditization of global youth culture, postcolonial political movements, and the aesthetics of hip-hop. Blake is committed to mediating the gap between the academy and the streets.