Rhymes Over Beats is on the Move
For the first blog post of the new year I’m going to emulate the Roman god Janus. Janus is the god of gateways and doors. He looks both forward and backward. He is between what was and what is to come.
In 2021 Rhymes Over Beats, even with the brake of COVID, accomplished quite a bit:
- Our presence on social media has grown steadily.
- Work continued on the documentary When Reagan Killed Roosevelt
- We began work on a new documentary, also on the early days of hip hop.
- Company member Masta Ace had the second developmental table reading of his hip hop musical.
- I finished the first draft of a musical of the Irish immigration to America in the 1850s
Going forward in this new year 2022, we hope to:
- have an in person staged reading of Masta Ace’s musical and a table reading of mine.
- announce the release dates for both documentaries
- continue our outreach to the hip hop community to encourage more artists to write hip hop musicals.
Finally, we want to convey our wishes for the new year embodied in an old Irish proverb/blessing: “May the best day of last year be the worst day of this year.”
Happy New Year from Rhymes Over Beats!