Def Sound (pronouns they/them/he/hims) is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist born and based in South Central LA. Def is a postbinary Grammy Award-considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, poet, and award-winning academic.

Def’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams’ Anthology CHORUS, while their music has been featured in LA WEEKLY, LA Record, The L.A. Times, The Frieze Art Fair, the Emmy Nominated Television series Music Diaries, and the Emmy winning Artbound on KCET. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop/Black Critical Theory at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

This month’s episode featured guest Jazzi McGilbert.

A rebel with a cause, Jazzi McGilbert is the founder and owner of reparations club a concept shop and community space curated by blackness and POC in Los Angeles. In a past life Jazzi was a Creative Director at Loom and Web editor at NYLON as well as a contributing editor at TEEN VOGUE and so much more.