Last month I posted the trailer to Say My Name, a documentary about women in hip hop. Invincible is one of the rappers featured in the film. She’s based out of Detroit and she is more than just a rapper, she’s an activist. Her raps have a political slant and she’s not afraid to speak out against racism and oppression.

When she’s not rapping, she’s working at The Hub, Detroit’s bicycle shop which also has a program called Back Alley Bikes which provides free bicycle education to anyone or doing community organizing with Detroit Summer, a collective which tackles problems in the community through creative and critical thinking. Invincible also emceed last year’s Allied Media Conference, one of the largest DIY media conferences in the country.

The video below is for the song “Ropes” off the album Shapeshifters. Invincible’s goal with this song is to open up the dialogue of suicide and mental illness because those two topics are things people never want to talk about. But as she says in the video, how can we fix the problems if we don’t talk about them? Check out this article in Metro Times about Invincible - her music and the community activism that she is so passionate about.