MEDIA

Print Interviews & Story Features

• SD Voyager, January 24, 2022 - Life & Work with Dr. DJ Kuttin KandiL

• Meridian International Center, May 18, 2021 - Honoring AAPI Stories and Intersectionality with DJ Kuttin Kandi

• The Mesa Press, March 11, 2021 - Knowin' My Condition: Kuttin Kandi's Journey Into Art Justice

• National Asian American Leaders Table, Solidarity Stories, 2020 - Building Across Community with Shared Purpose with Dr. DJ Kuttin Kandi

• The Beat Refinery, October 16, 2020 - DJ Shortee, DJ Kuttin Kandi, Killa Jewel, Eliza May, Ry Toast

• San Diego Union-Tribune - August 29, 2020 - Hip Hop DJ Kuttin Kandi's Passion for music helps her hit the right notes in her life

• The Flip Chronicles with Rex Navarete, September 4, 2020 - DJ Kuttin Kandi Hip Hop Pioneer

• DisArt Now - June 4, 2020 - Episode 48: DJ Kuttin Kandi

• Mid-City Can - May 26, 2020 - Kuttin Kandi and the Asian Solidarity Collective Taking Action to Uplift Asian American Communities

• Heavy Rotation, Episode 24: Hip Hop Appreciation Week

• This Filipino American Life (TFAL), Episode 31: TFAL Goes to SD: Community Organizing with DJ Kuttin Kandi, Kirin Macapugay, Ree Obaña

• Balitang America, October 2018 - Filipina DJ "Kuttin Kandi" Uses Art and Music As A Platform of Activism

• Hip Hop Education Center, April 3, 2018 - Kuttin Kandi is Fresh, Bold and So Def

• 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

• DVC The Inquirer, October 14, 2014 - DJ's New Gig Laying Tracks for Student Activities

• 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

• Life Work Balances, March 21, 2012 - Episode 8: Kandi

• 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

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• The Mesa Press, September 29, 2021 - MESA's APIA Community Holds "Careering While Asian Panel

• Juno Daily, September 3, 2021 - Turning the Tables - the Women Turntablists Challenging Music's Last All-Boys Club

• Joy Ng, July 9, 2021 - Hip Hop Bruha Talks Always Be My Maybe

• Shop Good, June 17, 2021 - An Interview with We All We Got SD 

• San Diego Union-Tribune, March 19, 2021 - Community Coalition in San Diego Speaks Out Against Anti-Asian Racism

• KPBS, March 19, 2021 - San Diegans Rally Against Anti-Asian Hate

• HellaPinay.com,  February 16, 2021 - Dear Non-Black Filipinx Fam: We Need to Stop Saying the N-Word

• Myx.Global, Filipino DJs

• San Diego Magazine, December 23, 2020 - How Mutual Aid Programs Are Making a Difference During the Pandemic

• Slant, October 5, 2018 - Featuring Filipina American Activist, DJ and Poet Kuttin Kandi

• 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

• AsianJournal.com, September 4, 2018 Asian Americans Discuss Authenticity and Making A Cultural Mark On the Genre

• KPBS, July 12, 2018 - Flip The Record Q&A

• Brooklyn Took It, July 5, 2017 - "Ladies First" Feature Sade, Twelve45, Kayper, and Vashtie

• Bushwick Daily, January 13, 2014 - Excellent Bushwick Hip Hop Concert Helps Philippines Recovery Effort

• Crunk Feminist Collective, May 21, 2012 - Taking it All Off: Black Women, Nudity and the Politics of Touch

• Fusicology - The Death of Adam MCA Yauch is A Hard One to Shake

• 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 Electronic Intifada, October 17, 2005 - Free The P! Palestine Takes NYC's East Village By Storm

• UCSD Cross Cultural Center, September 26, 2008 - Sound Off! Social Justice and Hip Hop

• Pyramids to Projects, July 6, 2005 - R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop

• Can'tStopWon'tStop.com, June 7, 2005 - Hip-Hop Downhill Meeting Saturday

• The Minnesota Daily, June 1, 2005 - Looking Back to Look Forward: Intermedia Arts' Hip Hop Event Celebrates Women of the Art Form

• AllHipHop.Com, October 13, 2003 - Common, Kweli, Headline G.A.M.E. "Hip Hop for Healthcare"

• Village Voice, July 17, 2001 - Ladies First by Raquel Cepeda

• The New York Times, July 18, 2000 - Lincoln Center Festival Review; Classical Sampling of the Turntable Arts

• MTV, April 14, 2000 - Eminem, Dr. Dre Top Online Hip Hop Awards

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 7, 2000 - Students Organize Hip Hop Culture Conference

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• Journal of Asian American Studies, John Hopkins University Press, Volume 23, Number 3, October 2020 - Walking with Asian American Studies

• Oxford Research Encyclopedia, February 8, 2020 - Asian Americans in Hip Hop

• California State University, Sacramento, Spring 2020 - Thesis on Hip Hop Culture and It's Effects on Filipino American Cultural Identification

• Black Women's Rhetoric Project, December 2017 - IV. Deejays: Spinderella, Shorty Wop, DJ Pam the Funktress, DJ Kuttin Kandi

• Studies in Culture and Education, Volume 24, 2017 - Straight Outta English

• 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​

• 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.

• American Music Review, Spring 2014 - DJ Kuttin Kandi Performing Feminism

• Washington State University, 2012 - Expressions of Resistance: Intersections of Filipino American Identity, Hip Hop Culture and Social Justice

• Oxford University Press, December 12, 2007 - Men, Women and Turntables: Gender and the DJ Battle

• The Music Quarterly, Volume 89, Issue 4, Winter 2006, Pages 580-599 - Men, Women and Turntables: Gender and the DJ Battle

• European Journal of Cultural Studies, February 1, 2004 - Scratching the Surface: Spinning Time and Identity in Hip Hop Turntablism

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Podcasts, Radio, etc

• ​​Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.10: "Hand Over Heart; Finding the Way Back to Seeing and Loving Our Children

• Real Black News, March 2021 - Episode 118: DJ Kuttin Kandi - Asian Community Organizer

• Ladies of Sound - Session # 17: Playing Music & Playing Roles

• DisArt, June 4, 2020 - Episode 48: Kuttin Kandi

• This Filipino American Life - Episode 31: TFAL Goes to SD: Community Organizing with DJ Kuttin Kandi, Kirin Macapugay, Ree Obaña