Posted on 08/07/2017 5:02:13 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Sade Alvarez-Gibson, 15, raps into a studio microphone in a makeshift booth made of blankets, while Oladele Kiambu, 17, records:
“Keeping my mind focused / I’m controlling my reality / My grind’s an everyday thing / It’s something that I do casually,” she raps.
Just feet away, Kamal Muhammad — wearing headphones and a face full of determination — sits in front of a computer monitor, rhythmically tapping on a keyboard, eliciting sounds of a synth and a drum kick.
“This is my first time making a beat,” the 12-year-old said proudly.
All three are hoping to break into the music business, and the music program Beats Not Bullets is a step in that direction.
Held at the Creative Alliance, the six-week summer internship program hosts around 10 students from the city and Baltimore County, teaching them the fundamentals of beat-making, music production and the ins and outs of the music business.
Damond Blue, the East Baltimore singer-songwriter and rapper who founded the program last year, said Beats Not Bullets gives children the chance to embark on a successful music career and to have a voice in their city.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Real racism - setting legal immigrants up for failure by discouraging them from learning English or setting blacks up for failure by encouraging bad grammar - disgusts me. I want every legal resident of the United States to be as successful as possible, and dividing us forces the opposite.
No kidding. At least if they learned to play a musical instrument, it might get them a college scholarship. However, considering how insane colleges are now, there may very well be scholarships for rappers.
I hope this works out.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Stupid, IMO. They need to learn about some practical occupations. Show business success is encountered by only a small percentage of people who pursue that field.
How about teaching them to put the CORRECT order in the bag before handing it out the window?
This is a great idea. I like all apprenticeship approaches. When the globalists destroyed all local industry just as the Civil Rights laws were starting to take effect, they created “urban” tragedies all over the nation.
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