Everyone Has a Story
The Rhymes Over Beats Theater Collective is very active on social media. Instagram. Facebook. Twitter. We are able to do this because we have adopted a common principle of marketing, which is:
- When you have a message to convey, one of the keys to success is repetition, repetition, repetition.
So therefore we have created a series of rotating posts here on this blog, each of which push a specific concept.
The most important one is people.
Help Us Tell Your Story
First, all of our social media followers should donate $10 to Rhymes Over Beats to help us tell the stories you want to see. Money is really helpful in doing this.
The second most important is Tell us your story.
These two posts are the most important, because without content and the resources to produce this content. we don’t exist as a collective.
And your voice isn’t heard.
Two Types of Stories
Hip Hop rose out of a culture of oppression, first in Jamaica, then in the “Bronx is burning” days of the early 70s.
There are three possible responses to an oppressive situation:
- escape
- rebellion
- acceptance
Hip Hop is the reaction to the acceptance that the mainstream culture preached. Its rebellious side became Gangsta Rap. How I’m fighting back.
Escape is everything else. Rapping about how I’m getting out/got out.
These are the two general types of stories that we want to tell. If this seems limited, remember how many boy meets girl-boy looses girl-boy gets girl back stories there are. When you look at the details of a story, the limits go away.
I’ve written a ten minute hip hop musical about four children who grow up challenged by different things. One character fights for a decent education in a failing school system, and becomes a teacher to change things. One spends hours on the bus to visit an incarcerated parent and becomes a lawyer to change things. One waits for hours in the emergency room with an ill relative and becomes a doctor to change things. One, upset at the local grocery store’s poor selection and exorbitant prices becomes a businessman to change things.
That’s my story. What’s yours?
There are as many different stories as there are people in the community.
If you want your story told, please contact us.
Oh yeah, and donate here. 🙂