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A collective of hip hop and theater artists who share a passion to create and produce theater with a hip hop aesthetic to tell seldom-told stories of our diverse, culturally-rich community. Work With UsMasta Ace’s Looming Play “The Falling Season” Gets Early Rave Reviews
Hip-Hop legend MASTA ACE has taken his pen game to new levels with the creation of a play, “The Falling Season.” The Brooklyn legend gave a peek of the play and now we give it to you.
As a hip hop theater collective we stand in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and the protestors in the streets.
It should be obvious to everyone that there is a systemic institutional racism in this country. It underwrites and allows individual acts of racism to seem acceptable. As theater artists our mission is to hold up a mirror to this society. As hip hop theater artists we do this by creating works of theater telling seldom-told stories of the community.
BLACK LIVES MATTER. So do the stories of those lives.
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Featured member: Masta Ace
“I’m so excited about this new chapter in my writing career. And I’m really just appreciative of a company like Rhymes Over Beats that’s giving people like myself – other artists, writers, talent – the opportunity to realize a dream, realize something that they maybe never thought they’d be able to do. I’m working with Cate right now on what will be my first stage play. This is an exciting time – I’m looking forward to seeing what this turns into.” -Masta Ace
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How Masta Ace Transformed from MC to Playwright with ‘The Falling Season’
Since before the turn of the century, Brooklyn-bred rapper Masta Ace has put out numerous studio albums, most of which see him employ an incredibly detail-oriented, storytelling-based approach. But now, with an upcoming play titled The Falling Season, roughly...
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Rhymes Over Beats is a collective of hip hop and theater artists who share a passion to create and produce theater with a hop hop aesthetic to tell seldom-told stories of our diverse, culturally-rich community.