“I definitely consider it an art. It’s almost like I’m slowly painting a picture with every record I play. Each song represents a different stroke of color. Just like a painter expresses his/herself through their paintings, I do the same through music. Dictating people’s movements, getting a reaction from my audience from the different records I play means a lot to me, especially when I see that everyone is having fun. I have the opportunity to make an individual who may have had a bad day or week happy for a brief moment, whether it be for several minutes or several hours. That’s important to me being that I’m a person who likes to help others. I’m not a civil rights activist, a politician, or even a good public speaker, but music is my medium to get through to others." EchoSlim (DJ TK)
Music
Native Hip Hop...a snippet
Hip Hop tells the story of people who have faced severe trauma, poverty, marginalization, genocide, slavery, and colonization and have survived it with a sense of dignity and pride. Native Hip Hop artists use Hip Hop in many ways but, more often than not, they use Hip Hop as a means to re-claim their history, heal themselves and others and remember the strength of their people through informing society with their asumpa. (Asumpa…to flow, to float, to fly. As in water, air, words, and sounds)