"My song represents the story of black people and the many things they have accomplished over the years it gives them recognition for their many achievements and successes with the artist Jayz to describe the many careers and accomplishments of black people and tell them that to become something they have to reach for it and get up to work for it and the speech adds on to let us know we must start now and we need to start now."

"My song promotes equality because it uses repetition to show that life is hard, but it is what we make it to be. I remixed multiple artist's songs, for example, Khalid, Pharrell, and more. My song promotes equality because everyone has their own story, but it’s the decisions we make that impact it. Everyone should be treated equally because we are all unique people with no limits."

"I remixed Alicia Keys's song "Underdog" to emphasize how much trouble some people are going through. I included motivational parts of the lyrics to represent hope, and I made an aggressive drop to represent the hardships discriminated people have to deal with. I chose to remix “Underdog” specifically, because I really liked how the song raised awareness to the people less noticed and/or less understood. I think it is a great song in general, and has a great message as well. I felt that I could spread that message of equity by remixing the song and emphasizing the parts that I thought conveyed the message the best."

"Originally, I composed this song without thinking about a message, which would come later. I found the Y13 strings and kind of fell in love with them, so I built the rest of the song off of them. My plan for the song was to add a new element every two measures or so for a steady progression. I also liked the idea of having drums with the strings, so I added two sets."

"This song is all about people needing to step up to address racial inequities. Students are too often judged by society, systems, and schools. Yes, even teachers sometimes have underlying biases that they need to confront in order to successfully reach all students. Equity in education means giving extra support and extra opportunities to those who have historically been underserved. Until this happens and people speak up about racism, judgments will continue, and certain students will again lose out as they too often have in the past!"