Beats Not Bullets program shows teens how rap can teach life skills
BALTIMORE (WJZ) It’s 8 o’clock on a Tuesday night and a beat can be heard coming from inside the green recording studio at the Maryland Art Place.
Baltimore teenagers are learning how rap can teach life skills and lessons in a relatively new program teaching “rap education.”
“I have faith in him, you know,” said MC Bravado.
An up-and-comer by the name kingwuane was in the studio recording his first track on an album back in February.
“Yeah, it is a sky’s the limit kind of situation,” said MC Bravado.
narrator: but reginald, doubled down on hiss denials. i am certain that i am nowhere near inside of nailah franklin s apartment building. narrator: accused the police of fabricating evidence. you have been very creative with photoshop. i guarantee you did not have video of me getting off the elevator at nailah franklin s us if you ha yve,e really creative with photoshop. narrator: he never expressed any desire for an attorney, but when they asked him to stand in a lineup so that witnesses could have a look. and who is speaking to whom in the lineup room. i definitely don t feel comfortable. there is a lawyer here with the state s attorney from cook county. the state s attorney representing the people and the case. i would not feel comfortable at all. at all.
store right there. he was trying to do too much. i was trying to give him some help so we get it straightened back out. what are you all waiting on? get back in the lineup room. what line is the pill call line? this is the pill call line right here? chow line. come on, come on, come on. i.d., where your i.d. at? right here. supervisor whatever the supervisor was doing, he needed to be right back here. but it s the staff, again, it goes back to the same thing. really don t have enough staff to try to do the things that you are trying to do. not enough staff and too many weapons can only lead to one thing. hours after our crew wrapped shooting, an inmate was stabbed in the honor dorm. the following morning, it was the main topic of conversation among the inmates. a man right there got stabbed two beds over, right. i hear the dude scream.