Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
This week’s blog post is for anyone wanting to work with us to tell hip hop stories. I want to make sure that we are clear on what Rhymes Over Beats means when we say that if you have a story, we want to produce it.
Recently, someone I haven’t spoken to in about a year and a half emailed me to ask about the status of their project.
What project, I asked?
It seems that about a year and a half ago we talked about doing a work loosely based on their life. I told them then that it had to be written first. About a week later they sent me two paragraphs of their story.
They had sent me nothing since then. No script, no treatment, nothing. Silence.
I had to explain that unless they had written something else (other than the two paragraphs that were emailed to me previously), then their status had not changed since the last time I talked to them.
How could it change? We respond to good stories, but we can’t write your play for you.
Not Everyone is a Playwright
We understand that not everyone is a playwright.
We understand that not everyone writes music.
We understand that some people can do neither.
However, if you want to work with us you have to understand that it is your story. You need to be the driving force.
We can supply the writer or the musician, but we can’t supply the details. At the minimum, we need to know who you are.
- What makes you tick?
- What do you want?
- What person or situation was or still is keeping you from getting what you want?
We can help you get your story out. We can produce it if you have already written it. We can even help you write it if you need us to do that.
But we need to know what it is in order to do that.
What’s the Big Idea in Your Story?
You don’t have to be a playwright to know what it is that you are meant to share with the world.
- What big idea is burning a hole inside you until you tell it?
- What experience did you live through that can be inspiring and/or important for others to know?
- What message do you have to give to the world?
Help us to help you. Be as clear as you can, and get in touch with us.
Share your big ideas with the world.