Jasiri X describes himself as an,"Emcee and community activist Jasiri X is the creative force and artist behind the ground breaking internet news series, This Week with Jasiri X, which has garnered critical acclaim, thousands of subscribers, and millions of internet views. Jasiri X first burst on the National and International Hip-Hop scene with the powerful hit song Free The Jena 6. A founding member of the anti-violence group One Hood, Jasiri started the 1Hood Media Academy to teach young African-American boys how to analyze and create media for themselves. Jasiri has performed from New York City to Berlin, Germany and various cities in between, including recently in front of 30,000 at the Our Communities Our Jobs Rally in Los Angeles. He has toured colleges and universities across the country presenting his innovative workshop, How to Succeed in Hip-Hop Without Selling Your Soul, and is working on a book of the same name. He also blogs for Jack and Jill Politics, Daveyd.com, and The Black Youth Project."

Audio visual samples of Jasiri's work

Who's Illegal? is a track that directly combats the narrative of settler colonialism. He challenges the US history of colonial/imperialism, his counter history questions the logic of "Western" knowledge and modernity. His oral poetics are the telling of diapsoric history in the voice from the margins, a voice that resonates across radio waves, transcommunicates the shared trauma of indigenous and black atlantic traumas, that transmigrates across digital networks.