Alphabet Rockers

One Liner: Positive kiddie raps

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but positive kiddie raps

Home: San Francisco

Poster Position: not on the poster
Weekend Two - BOTH Saturday and Sunday.

Thoughts:  They don't have their own Wikipedia page, but on the Wikipedia page for "kindie rock," they are mentioned this way: "Also from the Bay Area that emerged in the 2010s were the Alphabet Rockers, a hip-hop kids group aiming to use their music towards the fight for social justice and equality."  Their web bio sounds similarly exhausting: "Led by Kaitlin McGaw (she/her) and Tommy Soulati Shepherd (he/him/they), Alphabet Rockers create brave spaces to shape a more equitable world through hip hop, as two-time GRAMMY nominees, Othering & Belonging Institute Fellows and industry leaders for change."

"Eat The Rainbow" is all about eating good-for-you food that is colorful, but avoiding candy.  "Yummy Yummy Fresh" is also about eating healthy food.  His rapping kind of reminds me of KRS-One in many of these tracks.  "The Word is Love" sounds like they brought Lenny Kravitz on to guest.  Their 2007 original album looked very generic - like the cover has a cartoon hippo on it holding a microphone.  2012's Go! at least added in their pictures on the cover, but kept a kind of generic look.  2012's Back to School is a little more cool, but 2017's Rise Shine #Woke finally has a good cover art.  2019's The Love also looks good.

The top track is "Just Be," with 107k streams.  This is off of The Love, and features rappers Mahawam and Billy Dean Thomas.

Pretty fun track, although it makes me sad that the comments are turned off to the YouTube video.  Maybe it means nothing, but probably it is because some dirtbags called them groomers because they made a song that is positive about being yourself.  Their second-most streamed is annoying because it involves counting and ain't nobody wanna learn about counting right now.  So, here is their most recent single instead, the lovely summer jam called "Slide."

No stream numbers yet, but a nice, chilled beat to go with some nice lyrics.  Although, where the hell is the slide in that video?  Do they just mean the slide dance move?  I thought that the pool scene in the video meant that I'd get to see a bunch of kids riding a slide into the pool!