COMPAS is proud to partner with the City of Saint Paul and other collaborators on the Saint Paul GetDown. An update on this valuable project was published in the Minnesota Star Tribune this week. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be read in full on the Star Tribune’s website.
Learn more about our work on the GetDown in this blog post.
From the Star Tribune: Nodding and bouncing to beats behind the Arlington Hills library on a recent summer evening, a dozen young local musicians sang and rapped original songs to tell the world about themselves…“I’ve been making hip-hop therapy, in a way,” said Jelani Osiname, 21, who raps under the name Boogie. “There was this vulnerability to it, where I could talk without being judged.” (Read the full article.)
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