begin StoryVille

...our hero is local grass roots rapper and high school student tentatively calling himself Problem Child. He meanders day to day;, class to class, in search of his walk - the highschool dork, with a passion for rap. He possesses the intelligence, and certainly the dedication, but somewhere between the videogames and the comic books, Problem Child simply lacks the swagger...

MeanWhile

Hip Hop has lost in spirit. Between the over industrialization of the music and the lack of community within the culture, Hip Hop has become a mere shell of its former glory. We find ourselves in a tiresome climate of factorilized drudgery, and indeed, the spirit of Hip Hop has become a Ghost....

But, like all Ghosts, this one one is not truly dead. The Ghost seeks a new place to come alive, a birth place for a new life. Just as Jazz was reborn in Storyville, New Orleans - the spirit too must find a place....Or a person, in order to live. Who will be the Storyville for the Ghost of Hip Hop? This must be someone with intelligence, and great fortitude; but above all, this person must possess unrelenting passion....


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