A young rapper performing during a Hip Hop Project IN session

Hip Hop Project IN · since 2019

A beat. A pen. A voice.

A cultural and therapeutic space where young people speak through hip-hop. It started in 2019 in Barcelona, with homeless and refugee youth.

The Integral Hip Hop Intervention

Rhythm-based regulation, creative expression, community and trauma-informed facilitation, in one structured method. It moves people:

  • From tension to rhythm
  • From shutdown to expression
  • From isolation to belonging
  • From reaction to choice
Young people producing a track in the studio

What happens in the room

Culturally informed

We start from the music young people already live in.

Therapeutic Beat Making™

Build a beat, build focus, regulation and pride.

Hip-hop therapy

Group processes where trust grows bar by bar.

Rap songwriting

Turn what's heavy into words, and words into a track.

Field story · Hatay, Turkey · 2023

After the earthquake, a microphone.

In May 2023 we took Hip Hop Project IN to the earthquake zone in Turkey. Funded by the public and supported by the Hatay State Theatre, more than 50 children and young people turned what they'd lived through into lyrics, beats and art.

Research

Peer-reviewed.

Our Integral Hip Hop Intervention methodology is published in Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.

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The four elements of Hip Hop Project IN

Bring it to your community.

Schools, NGOs, youth centres, festivals. Tell us who you work with.

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