What Interests You? An Intro...

With one project winding down, another quick one coming up, I wanted to start working on another long-term story. Toying around with ideas of some huge issue, some social injustice, some news story, I decided I wanted to do a story on something that interested me. Something that may be fun, challenging, emotional, and something I could dedicate a lot of time to. Something that may challenge people and their view points in this community and something that may squelch stereotypes. So, of many genres of music that are out there, the world of hiphop has always intrigued me. After some research I found a hiphop group based in Midland. Quite possibly the only group as Flint and Saginaw are more notable for performers in the genre. I met one of the members yesterday while he was laying beats in his basement getting ready for an upcoming show. Self trained, watching this guy and hearing what he came up with in 1 minute of mixing samples was pretty amazing. We talked about the scene in Midland, or lack there of, how he's everything from artist to manager to producer to marketer, juggling family life with trying to schedule venues for shows. I wanted to post this as the first photo from the project that I'm hoping is a journey through these people's lives about what inspires them to continue to push themselves and what sacrifices they make for their music. It's only the first day, so we'll see what happens. Hopefully by posting this it won't jinx the project.