Professor Dylan Rodriguez Quotes AWKWORD Lyrics on Rules for Radicals

Select Press Quotes

“Antifa militant”
– Andy Ngo / The Post Millennial

"Quite profound"
– Chuck D

“Fighting police brutality on and off wax throughout his career”
– Justin Hunte

“He gets it”
– Karim Bettache

"Talent rap right hurrrr"
– Sarah Polonsky

“White rapper”
– Jesse Lee Peterson

"As much an activist as an artist, channeling the idea of conveying a message and a viewpoint through rhyme"
– Philip Mlynar

"One of our favorite up-and-coming emcees... even more than his good deeds, it's his music"
– Genius

"Refreshingly, AWKWORD is trying to blaze his own trail (what other White guy quotes Maya Angelou in any industry?) by releasing music with a message"
– The Urban Daily

"Don’t let the stage name fool you — when it comes to rocking the mic... AWKWORD is anything but”
– DJ Z, DJ Booth

"Though his mission is serious, AWKWORD's got a quicksilver wit that permeates most of his tracks… Stay on his good side; it’s a pretty inspiring place to be"
– MTV

"AWKWORD's career is going straight up, so check him out now so you can say you knew him before"
– Kathy Iandoli

"AWKWORD is an artist whose vision knows no boundaries; he imprints hip-hop history"
– Yoh

Select AWKWORD Interviews

AWKWORD Podcast Global Warning Featured on Idavox’s Antifascism O.G. with Daryle Lamont Jenkins (Video)

AWKWORD Walks Out of Interview with Nazi Sympathizer Jesse Lee Peterson (Video)

Did Nothing Wrong Podcast (Audio)

The Pun Show with Machine Pun Kelly (Video)

DXBreakdown with Justin Hunte (Video)

Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp for RT (Video)

The Nomiki Show with Nomiki Konst (Video)

GetYourNewsOnWithRon with Ron Placone (Video)

The Convo Couch (Video)

Status Coup with Tina Desiree Berg (Video)

District 34 with Tina Desiree Berg (Video)

The Unruly Hour with Savage Joy (Video)

Not Safe for Wonks (Video)

Facts On The Ground (Video)

The Gregg Housh Show (Video)

The Vanguard (Video)

The People’s Basics with Jon Munitz (Video)

Sabby Sabs (Video)

Jay Befaunt (Revolutionary Blackout Network) (Video)

Radical Democracy with Kahmali Rose (Video)

Leftist & Chill with iDanSimpson (Video)

The Ongoing History of Protest Music (Audio)

Rap Genius with Shawn Setaro (Audio + Annotatable Script)

Village Voice (Digital Print)

The Halftime Show with DJ Eclipse (Audio)

The Library with Tim Einenkel on Chuck D’s Rapstation Radio (Audio)

We Are Change (Audio)

Anonymous Bites Back (Video)

Green Left Weekly [Australia] (Digital Print)

Juice Magazine [Germany] (Print)

Do Something (Video)

Polititalk with Tanbir Chowdhury (Audio)

Epic Tomorrows (Video) (Part I) (Part II)

On IG Live with DJ Que Eleven (Video)

The Upcoming Hip Hop Podcast (Audio)

All Around Africa [Kenya] (Digital Print)

Hip Hop Breath (Print)

Rap Seminar Breaks Down “Gas Land” by AWKWORD

Select Media Placements

American Media

Complex • MTV • Village Voice • MSNBC's The Grio • VICE • Huffington Post • Shadowproof • The Appeal •Common Dreams • Daily Dot • The Nation • Daily Kos • Real Progressives • Elemental Magazine • The Fader • Prefix Mag • Urb • Karen Civil • XXL • The Source • Vibe • Hot 97 • HipHopDX •HotNewHipHop • Vlad TV • Ego Trip • The Urban Daily • Ambrosia For Heads • Okay Player • TeamBackPack • ThisIs50 • DJ Booth • RESPECT • RapFest • EARMILK • BREAL.tv • The Smoking Section • AllHipHop • HipHopSince1987 • Mr. Davey D's HipHopAndPolitics • Weekly Rap Gods • Hip Hop Wired • 2DopeBoyz • Nah Right • Stupid Dope • Digiwaxx • Byron Crawford • Dallas Penn • The Combat Jack Show • Lowkey/You Heard That New • DJ Enuff • DJ Bobby Trends • WhoMag? TV • Ashley Outrageous • Good Music All Day • Passion of the Weiss • Artistic Manifesto

American Radio / PODCASTS

The Nomiki Show with Nomiki Konst • Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp • The Convo Couch • The Jimmy Dore Show • ANDYOUDON'TSTOP with Chuck D of Public Enemy • Hip Hop Nation (Sirius XM) with Statik Selektah • The Halftime Show with DJ Eclipse • Rap Is Outta Control Radio with DJ JS-1 • Planet Earth Planet Rap on RapStationRadio • Radio Dispatch with John and Molly Knefel • The Emilio Sparks Experience • East New York Radio / Beatminerz Radio with PF Cuttin • The Company Man Show on PNC Radio • BTR with DJ Wayne Ski on PNC Radio • The Morning Rush on WLUW Chicago • Damage Control Show with Bumpy Knuckles • Straight From The Underground (SFTU) Radio • Southern Vanguard Radio

International Media

MTV Base (Africa) • Adramatic Hip-Hop (Belgium) • Noticiário Periférico (Brazil) • Boi-1da.net (Canada) • Rap Dose (Canada) • BlackoutHipHop (Croatia) • Bbarak.cz (Czech Republic) • Raumalainen (Finland) • Hip Hop Breath (France) • HipHop.de (Germany) • I Still Love Her (Germany) • Juice Magazin (Germany) • TheHipHop.org (India) • Ecko Unlimited Italy (Italy) • il Ducato Urbino (Italy) • Yappari HipHop (Japan) • Malawi24 (Malawi) • Malawi Voice (Malawi) • Hiphop In Je Smoel (Netherlands) • TheNet.ng (Nigeria) • YabaLeftOnline.com (Nigeria) • Kingsize Magazine (Norway) • Popkiller (Poland) • Hiphoplive.ro (Romania) • DopeFuture (Russia) • RT (Russia) •Hip-Hop.sk (Slovakia) • HeavyWords (South Africa) • Versos Perfectos (Spain) • Tonkonst (Sweden) • HHKMag (UK) • Lily Mercer (UK) • The Hip Hop Chronicle (UK) • Lusaka Times (Zambia) • Zambian Music Blog (Zambia)