S4 Ep2 - Women, Hip Hop and Resilience: MC Trey (AUS), DJ Sarah Love (UK) and Maya Jupiter (USA)

The Colour Cycle Podcast by Diversity Arts Australia

First aired: 16 March 2022

In this episode we’re speaking to three award-winning women of the Hip Hop world across three continents. These pioneers discuss working across regions, why community is integral to Hip Hop, and what resilience means to them.

In Australia is MC Trey, a pacesetter in the world of hip hop whose legacy spans 20 years of music about everyday life, love and her Pacific community. In London is one of the busiest award-nominated aficionados of hip hop, DJ Sarah Love who’s also a broadcaster, TV presenter and journalist. In California is Maya Jupiter who was born in La Paz to a Mexican father and Turkish mother. She grew up in Australia where she fell in love with Hip Hop, later dropping three albums and hosting music shows on TV and radio.

Guests (in order of appearance): MC Trey, DJ Sarah Love, Maya Jupiter
Host and Interviewer: Lena Nahlous
Producer: Nadyat El Gawley

Music: Inshallah

Credits

Songwriter: Maya Jupiter
Vocals: Maya Jupiter, Mia Xitlali and Sandino González-Flores.
Qanoon and Oud: Halim Al-khatib
Drums: Evan Cristo,
Bass: Juan “El Unico” Perez,
Keyboard: Quincy McCrary
Guitar: Quetzal Flores.
Video Production: Abby VanMuijen of RogueMark Studios, Art by Eliza Reisfeld and Animation by Marisa Rafter

More information

Supporting the arts can increase our resilience

The Complex Intersection of Gender and Hip-Hop

Life and Hip Hop : women’s role in the industry

DJ Sarah Love Juice Crew interview

This podcast is in collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces.