Hip Hop Caucus’s Brittany Bell sits down with recording artist Dear Silas for a conversation about power, culture, and Mississippi as the blueprint for the Black American experience. They get into three things that matter right now: why young Black and Brown voters hold real power this election season, why we should look to the South, and Mississippi especially, for guidance on how to navigate current times, and the story behind Dear Silas’s latest project, SOPHISTIRATCHET.
This conversation was recorded as Hip Hop Caucus hosted the 21st Katrina March and Second Line and kicked off the Respect My Vote 2026 Midterms campaign, mobilizing voters ages 18–40 to show up and be counted. Twenty-one years after the storm, New Orleans still reminds us what’s at stake when communities are overlooked, and what’s possible when we organize.
Hip Hop Caucus’s Respect My Vote campaign is here to make sure you are ready to vote in the 2026 Midterm elections.
