It’s around 9:00 on a Tuesday evening in East Quad’s Abeng Multicultural Lounge. A few students sit in comfy armchairs listening to hip-hop beats, reciting poems to each other and discussing a mixtape they plan on recording. Kinesiology senior Walt Lacey begins freestyling and the people around him begin to clap. As the clapping gets louder, the energy in the room builds. People cheer in response to certain lines and jeer at others; a few guys start dancing and the beat gets more complicated as The Cypher’s Tuesday meeting comes into full swing.