MEDIA

VIDEOS

DJ Kuttin Kandi: For the Love of Hip Hop - A brief introduction to DJ Kuttin Kandi and their life's work

DJ Kuttin Kandi at the Chinese American Museum's Opening Reception Panel on Asian Americans in Hip Hop. Interviewed by TFC Balitang America. August 2018.

DJ Kuttin Kandi: Keep Families Together Rally with U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, June 22, 2018

DJ Kuttin Kandi interview on KPBS - As part of KPBS's "Where I come from" series, DJ Kuttin Kandi is interviewed in a short clip on questions pertaining to immigration starting at 1:56 seconds.

Aired August 31, 2018.

DJ Kuttin Kandi interview for Filipino America Organizing Resistance. Includes poetry by DJ Kuttin Kandi. February 2018

DJ Kuttin Kandi: Paradise Hills Night Market,

November 25, 2017

DJ Kuttin Kandi performs at Center Policy Initiative's SEJ Program Graduation

August 2017

DJ Kuttin Kandi Testifies at Planning Commission Meeting at City Council on December 7, 2017: In support of PQ Village residents

DJ Kuttin Kandi: DACA RALLY, September 5, 2017

DJ 101 with DJ Kuttin Kandi

As part of a podcast series with The Kennedy Center, DJ Kuttin Kandi provides an intro course into DJing by teachin how to "Droppin On the One, looping and a basic scratch technique. Originally recorded in 2014 here

Event Fliers

Interviews & Story Features

NEW: Balitang America, October 2018 - Filipina DJ "Kuttin Kandi" Uses Art and Music As A Platform of Activism
Medium.com, November 2017 - 6 Questions with DJ Kuttin Kandi
Tonearm Talk, 2016 - Kuttin Kandi, DJing, Afrika Bambaataa Allegations
Colorlines, July 1, 2015 - Anomolies' DJ Kuttin Kandi: Appropriation is What Happens When Nobody Knows Your Name
Poor Magazine, March 17, 2014 - DJ Kuttin Kandi Spins Some Real Shit
Turntablist World, November 26, 2013 - DJ Kuttin Kandi's Top 10 Body Trick Routines
Colorlines, April 26, 2012 - Hip Hop Activist and DJ Fights her Fiercest Battle
Not Your Model Minority, 2010 - Candice Custodio aka DJ Kuttin Kandi
Fil Am Funk, May 10, 2009 - Artist Spotlight: Kuttin Kandi Picks Up the Mic and Drops the Science
Akila Worksongs, April 25, 2010 - DJ Kuttin Kandi on Hip Hop
Bakit Why, September 14, 2008 - Artist Spotlight: DJ Kuttin Kandi
San Diego Union Tribune, March 16, 2008 - Deejaying Still Holds the Key to Her Heart
Femmixx, 2005 - Kuttin Kandi: Spinning the Truth
Davey D, February 2003 - Kuttin Kandi: More than a Woman
Asia Society - Life As A Female Filipino DJ

Mentions

NEW: Slant, October 5, 2018 - Featuring Filipina American Activist, DJ and Poet Kuttin Kandi
NEW: PattyPenrado.com, October 2, 2018 - Tumulong Tayo! Towards a Center for Filipino Studies
NEW: NBC San Diego, October 1, 2018 - Inaugural Filipino Latino History Celebration
KPBS, July 12, 2018 - Flip The Record Q&A
Brooklyn Took It, July 5, 2017 - "Ladies First" Feature Sade, Twelve45, Kayper, and Vashtie
Crunk Feminist Collective, May 21, 2012 - Taking it All Off: Black Women, Nudity and the Politics of Touch
Body Impolitic Blog, April 28, 2012 - Kuttin Kandi: Hip Hop, Heart Disease, Fatphobia and Truth-Telling
Way that We Rhyme, July 22, 2010 - Kuttin Kandi
The New York Times, July 18, 2000 - Lincoln Center Festival Review; Classical Sampling of the Turntable Arts

Academic/Education

Features & Mentions

Black Women's Rhetoric Project, December 2017 - IV. Deejays: Spinderella, Shorty Wop, DJ Pam the Funktress, DJ Kuttin Kandi
Changing English Journal, July 28, 2017 - Sista Girl Rock: Women of Colour and Hip Hop Deejaying as Race/Gendered Knowledge and Language by Todd Craig & Carmen Kynard
American Music Review, Spring 2014 - DJ Kuttin Kandi Performing Feminism
Hip Hop Education - Fresh, Bold and So Def Timeline
Griots Republic - Griots Read: The Ultimate Hip Hop Syllabus
UC San Diego Electronic Thesis & Dissertations, 2016 - Turning The Tables: Nightlife, DJing and the Rise of Digital DJ Technologies.