Community Mixtape Project

This is a special episode of our podcast. DJ Thermos has created an hour long mix of all the music that we made over the first year of the WC&S Mixtapes project, complete with unheard tracks and interviews with all the WC&S Mixtapes program staff.

After much anticipation, we’ve finally released the WC&S Community-Sourced Mixtape Project Zine! For a free PDF download of the zine, click the link below. If you’re interested in getting a print copy of the zine, please contact [email protected] for more information.

http://tinyurl.com/wcszine

You can now subscribe to the WC&S Community Mixtape Podcast with no muss and no fuss. Just click this link:

Podcast Episode 3

Podcast Episode 2

Are you ready for the 2nd Community-Sourced Mixtape Project Podcast? This episode includes: DJ Kalis - Gotta Stay In School, Sunny Skies, DJ Cooler - Graduation, DJ AKA - Take Me Home, and much more!

Podcast Episode 1

We’ve finally finished the first official Community-Sourced Mixtape Project Podcast! Listen to some of the incredible tracks written and produced by youth at the Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, and feel free to share.

We had a great time recording MVP, a track co-created by DJ Strawberry, DJ Peanut, DJ Boss Life, and DJ Gamer. These DJs all have different hobbies, but they bonded over finding confidence through sports. Each DJ wrote a few rhymes about a favorite sport, and then the group worked collaboratively to create a catchy hook that brought it all together. The results are awesome.

DJ Gravity was an incredibly confident writer, and he wrote 3 poems at our first few workshops. He was a little less sure about recording at first, but he ended up doing an amazing job with that too.

my unrestricted image By DJ Gravity

sometimes i spit my flow running around from different places like a restricted goal it’s a 4-way street someone tell me which way to go pick a way to success in my needs and not hit the floor one day i’mma really turn big taking care of others as if they were my own kids i live my dream float in a boat but stopped in a stream like a new cover photo as if i changed my scene you tell me who i really am but i don’t know what that mean my momma tell me she love me so let's keep it a bean you will never catch me on the news making some steam but if you disrespect the fam then i'mma have to make you scream

DJ Dancer wrote Move to the Beat and Sometimes as two connected poems, but she ultimately decided just to record Move to the Beat. We've included the text of both poems below.

According to DJ Dancer, these poems are about the power of music and the inner strength that keeps her going, even when life is hard.

Move to the Beat / Sometimes By DJ Dancer

I hear the piano I hear the drums I feel my fingers On the guitar, they strum I feel my feet As they move to the beat I dance to the rhythm I sing a song It plays in my heart All day long

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Sometimes I feel up Sometimes I feel down Sometimes I feel bound Sometimes I feel low Sometimes I feel high

My Nightmare DJ Freddie feat. DJ Kruger