We Are Hip Hop Theater
Rhymes Over Beats is about hip hop theater. We are one of the few theater companies or individuals who have this focus.
On the hip hop side, most hip hop artists don’t know about or care about theater. But every day I see more and more people being interested in who we are and what we do.
On the theater side, more theater artists care about hip hop than hip hop artists care about theater. That number is growing as younger artists take the place or older artists.
We Are Artists
Rhymes Over Beats encourages this trend. We want hip hop theater to become the dominate form of theater.
When we see an artist combining hip hop and theater, especially a person of influence and accomplishment, we want to do all we can to support and promote them. Such a person is Nicole Hodges Persley, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, who just put out a book called Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip Hop Theater and Performance. I’m not going to lie, this is an expensive, dense, academic text. But, if you want to learn more about hip hop theater, it is worth buying.
And if you do, please let her know that you bought the book because you heard about it on our website.
Spread the word!