Sam Sellers creates radically inclusive spaces through music at concerts, on dancefloors and in classrooms.

With an expansive discography begun on wax in 2001, a performance career touching 5 continents, and over two decades in Education, there are countless places where you may have encountered him. Highlights include head coaching on MTV's MADE, headlining the Blue Note Jazz Festival, facilitating workshops from community centers in Uganda and Chile to teaching at schools and universities in NYC and beyond. He is dedicated to growing his impact through artistic evolution, connecting people via the cypher, embodying his personal pedagogy, and deepening his musical catalog. In Summer 2023 he was (for the second time) a State Dept. of Educational & Cultural Affairs Hip Hop Ambassador, deployed to Chile on a Music Diplomacy mission with the Next Level initiative. In 2022 he was honored with the Alumni Award from his alma mater, Grinnell College, which “recognizes individuals who embody the College’s mission of lifetime learning and service.” Fall 2023 he began his 10th year as professor at The New School, where his courses focus on Hip Hop Cultural History, multi-Elemental performing arts, Liberation Education, forging sustainable careers in music, and turntablism. For the second consecutive year, he was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award there. He's been the official DJ for Saturday Night Live Season 43, 44 & 48 afterparties; was resident DJ/MC at legendary jam session The Lesson; and is multiple-time champ of every NYC freestyle rap competition in the new millennium. He is also an ordained wedding officiant, having performed 19 secular ceremonies, and ran the 2023 NYC Marathon. His new album Fake Flowers Last Forever is finished and will be released October 18, 2024. On his journey, he’s shared the stage and studio with Aloe Blacc, The Beatbox House, bell hooks, Biz Markie, Blue Man Group, Brady Watt, Common, Doug E. Fresh, DJ Kool Herc, DJ Rob Swift, Freestyle Fellowship, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Marley Marl, Rahzel, Robert Glasper, The Roots, Slick Rick, Talib Kweli, and many more.