University of Illinois hip hop education program changing narrative of the school – WCIA (Champaign)

The Marching Illini’s Low Brass Cheer is a blues riff that has been played during Illini Football games for decades. Professor Lamont Holden and student Jarrel Young took the instrumentation and added some Drumline-like snares, following the Atlantic sequencing formula to create the Illini Anthem. "Being the first rap/hip-hop fight song to represent a Big 10 University is monumental. Being from Champaign, this anthem hits home for me," Young said.