As a teacher-researcher concerned with the educational approaches and learning outcomes of urban students, the author believes it is important to explore hip-hop as a curricular and academic resource because hip-hop represents the ways in which urban youth speak, think, create, move, and relate to the world. This article explores the English language arts (ELA) lessons of an HHBE course titled Real Talk: Hip Hop Education for Social Justice (Real Talk). The course's final project aimed to connect students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills to their everyday realities as youth identifying with hip-hop music and culture. Through storyboarding and the moviemaking processes, students created narratives that challenged societal stereotypes about urban black youth. Students thus used these counternarratives to amplify their voices as engaged members of a democratic society.