“…I personally feel that Philly is underrated when it comes to the hip-hop dance scene…we’re talented and we have our own style, and that’s something that I want to expose to the world.”

“One of my personal missions is to help educate and strengthen women. We can be a really strong force to be reckoned with.”

TK Wonder is one of those musicians that you are lucky to know if you find out about her now, as opposed to kicking yourself in the future for missing out.

“I really do feel and believe that we’re all connected in some way. I’m also a strong believer that energy cycles around - a little like karma.”

“The people who really DJ for the music … and maybe even teach them something - those are the people that are going to stay around.”

Bar-Tendaz, a physical fitness and self empowerment organization, is on a mission to educate youth one pull-up at a time.

WHAT DOES YOUR OUTFIT SAY ABOUT YOU?: I’m comfortable in my own skin so everything on top of that is just me having fun.

Vocalist Mishal Moore keeps it real, period. Not in that hand on the waist, head swirling, finger in your face sort of realness - though I don’t doubt she could go there if pushed.

The “baby making hips” weren’t “baby holding hips”, and I was baffled. How could hips so wide lie?

Influenced by David Bowie’s 1972 glam rock era concept album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, where Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust alter ego represented androgyny, Saul Williams considers Niggy Tardust to be “a hybrid of race.”