Toki Wright is an Emmy Award–winning MC/producer, radio host, actor, arts ambassador, educator, and community organizer. He has released albums through his multimedia imprint Soul Tools Entertainment and Rhymesayers Entertainment, charting top 50 on MTV, iTunes hip-hop charts, and more. Soul Tools released the full-length feature film Bahamaian Son, which was an official selection at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and the lead film at the Bahamas Film Festival. Wright is department head of the first fully accredited Hip-Hop Studies program (by the National Association of Schools of Music) in the US at McNally Smith College of Music. Wright is an arts ambassador regularly touring Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia. @mrwrighttc
Chance the Rapper Colors Outside the Lines
“Young artists of color are literally dying because they don’t feel like they have any other way into the music industry except through displays of violence,” writes Toki Wright, who notes a major exception: Chicago’s Chance the Rapper.