XQ Music and Activism

Create a song that shines a light on an issue that matters most to you.

Toxic Emotions

As men, we have understood first hand what toxic masculinity does to someone. It confines the actions of men and the possibilities of women. We want to eliminate the expectations of how men are, and aren’t supposed to act, dress, speak, and even live. The three of us have all changed the way we have acted to fit in at one point in our lives. As we have gotten older, we realize that locking ourselves inside a norm wasn’t the way to act. In our song, we speak about our own experiences and everything we have dealt with, and specifically not allowing the stereotype of being masculine stand in the way of supporting and caring for your brothers and friends. While you listen, I hope you listen to our anecdotes and resonate to what we have to say. Song by Emry Herring, Jesus Garcia and Jhaiell Kilgore.

Emry Herring

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Everything You Need

This song is about not caring what people think and knowing that you have the strength to come back from it because you know you have what it takes to do that when you have confidence in yourself.

Leandra Hughes
Black in America (Feet. Paris Simone)

writers, Isaiah Hightower & Paris Simone

Isaiah Hightower
Fairytale...

This piece I have composed combines Rustic Black Metal as well as more traditional Germanic acoustic sounds in an effort to truly exonify my personal existential journey whereas I am in a world of which I do not belong. As a culturally and biologically Northern European born in a foreign land, I have long relied upon my own mechanizations to stay afloat so to speak, always struggling to wriggle against the confines that attempt to shut me out. Currently I sit within an industrialized urban landscape, witnessing vicariously the destruction of my spiritual ethnic hearth due to corporate enterprise and human lust birthed from unnatural means of which soon will be the destruction of us all, as is all that opposes the natural way of things. In conclusion, I wrote this song in purest expression of thought and emotional stigma because I am HUMAN.

Dylan Schmeichel