Ian Levy, a NYC native, is an assistant professor of school counseling at Manhattan College and a former high school counselor in the South Bronx. Ian¿s research explores the school counselor¿s use of emotionally themed mixtape writing, recording, and performing as a small-group counseling intervention. Edmund Adjapong is an assistant professor in the Educational Studies Department at Seton Hall University. He is also a faculty fellow at The Institute for Urban and Multicultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and co-editor of HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education Volumes 1 & 2.