Across imagined and curated collaborations between Fela Kuti and De La Soul, Marvin Gaye and Yasiin Bey, and B.B. King and UGK (amongst others), Amerigo Gazaway and partner Rickey Mindlin bring towering individual voices into conversation, offering a new hip-hop and soul historiography. Together, the voices create a new, single voice. This panel will consider the Soul Mates Project’s work for how we might marshal voice to offer up lessons for musicology, music history, and social justice. Gazaway and Mindlin will discuss the process of putting together The Soul Mates Project. Robinson will give a paper considering the broader implications of the endeavor as a whole.