‘Su(Stained) Reality’: KRUNK students will perform their new album in a Nashville concert

Dahnayl Champine had been working on a new song for some time. But Dj Loveasy just couldn’t finish it.

“I had the words and thought this would be good,” said the 16-year-old musician, emcee and producer who is a junior at Woodland Hills High School. “I just missed the lead, and I didn’t have a hook.”

He joined the KRUNK Movement in Hazelwood in January, and the teachers and mentors there helped him refine his song and those created by his fellow students for a new original hip-hop album centered on issues of social and environmental justice, among others.