
OneBeat 2018
Facilitator
Jamel Mims
Rapper
New York City, United States
Facilitator
OneBeat 2018
Jamel Mims (a.k.a. Jam No Peanut) is a New York City-based rapper, interactive media artist, and revolutionary bringing trap music and technology to the fight against mass incarceration and state terror. In 2008, Jam No Peanut was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study hip hop culture in China, and produced the multimedia ethnography, The Misadventures of MC Tingbudong. Jam No Peanut’s internationalist politics and experience in China resonate in his music, as he switches between english and mandarin in politically charged verses. Born and raised in Washington DC, but known in NYC as the ‘Ratchet Revolutionary’, his work in music, technology, education and activism has been featured in the New York Times, The Nation, VICE, XXL, Complex, and more.