Where’s the Beef?
We are a Hip Hop Theater Collective
What does that mean, other than just developing new works of theater that celebrates the hip hop culture?
That part is obvious. We’re also more on theater side than the hip hop side.
Something’s Still Missing…
I keep feeling that there is something we should be doing on the hip hop side.
Something that has been missing up to now. Something that is unique to hip hop. Something that we should be doing but aren’t.
Then it occurred to me. Everyone in hip hop has had a beef with someone else.
Some are legendary.
Except us. We don’t have a beef with anyone.
You see, we are nice people. Smart people, but nice people. We like almost everyone.
We probably even like people we shouldn’t.
But here’s the thing: we can’t be so nice anymore.
We need to start a beef with somebody. Anybody.
Where’s the Beef?
The question is, how do we go about having a beef? And who do we have one with?
The “how” is an easier question to answer than “who”.
If we wrote music all we’d need to do is to pick someone out that we don’t like, and write a diss track about them. A negative comment about a significant female person in their life, or how they don’t write their own material.
But here’s the thing: we’re not musical artists.
We don’t write diss tracks, we write plays. So, should we should be writing diss plays? Ten minute plays about how horrible the object of our beef is?
That answers the how question. To answer the who question, we need your ideas. We need your suggestions.
So What Do You Think?
Who should our first beef should be with?
Please give us your thoughts. We want to get busy hating.
