What the Hell You Know About That 740
*Annotation: This story has been updated to analyze the profits from the streaming of the song, "Blind Eye."*
A rap grouping from Portsmouth. A producer from Helsinki. And a crowd-funding music platform based in Stockholm.
Those are the primal ingredients behind "Blind Centre," a song released in Nov past Raw Word Revival that is available on Spotify and Apple Music. Portions of the profits from the song benefit Scioto CASA (Courtroom Appointed Special Advocates).
In 2020, Mattias Tengblad, the CEO of Swedish crowd-funding music platform Corite, was looking for ways to expand the visitor into charitable directions and enhance its contour internationally.
He reached out to the company's Senior Project Managing director, Caroline Taucher, a U.S. denizen who is based in Republic of finland.
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"I lost a shut friend and musical partner to a heroin overdose in 2014, and I e'er knew that I wanted to do something, merely I didn't know what. So last year, when I started working at Corite, Mattias came to me and suggested that we practise some sort of charity project. I came across a CBC interview with Clint (Askew) and I reached out to him and nosotros started talking and that was that," Taucher said, speaking by phone from Helsinki.
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Clint Askew of Portsmouth is ane of the founding members of RWR (Raw Word Revival). The rap group got its start in Portsmouth in 2011, and in 2013 released the song and video "What the Hell Y'all Know About That 740?", referencing the local area lawmaking. The song became popular around the surface area. Sam Quinones, who wrote the bestselling book "Dreamland" most the opioid problem in Portsmouth included the stories of the members of RWR about their songs and how they reacted to the opioid epidemic, which destroyed the lives of many of their friends. That led to the Canadian Broadcasting Company interview with the grouping.
RWR had gone through several incarnations by the time Taucher reached out to the group in late 2020. Considering of the pandemic, the group was not active at that point.
"Caroline, out of nowhere, hit me upwards, and I reached out to the rest of the grouping members," Askew, 39, said in a phone interview.
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Taucher suggested that they write a new song, to be produced and promoted by Corite. This song would become the footing of a new Ohio Against Opioids programme designed to raise coin to combat the effects of opioid habit.
Askew and 4 of the other original group members got together and wrote and recorded "Bullheaded Eye." The vocal straight deals with the problems of children whose parents and other caregivers are addicted to drugs.
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Beveled and Taucher researched possible programs to funnel contributions, and decided on Scioto CASA, which serves children in the foster organization, many of whose parents are involved in the drug courtroom program.
They reached out to Judge Alan Lemons of the Scioto County Drug Court in the summer of 2021, and he pointed them in the management of Scioto CASA.
They have been working with Cortney Reiser, executive director of the CASA program for the Scioto County court organization, since she began working there in August.
"Some CASA programs are nonprofits and some are courtroom-based," Reiser said. "We are court-based, and then we don't have a lot of funding to practise outreach activities or to provide school supplies or clothes or birthday parties for the kids or gas cards for the volunteers."
Contributions made on the Corite website as well as those raised by RWR and "Blind Eye," volition go to those "extras" that the program is not able to provide.
"Blind Heart" has and then far raised more than $xiii,000 toward its $25,000 goal of aiding the Portsmouth-based Scioto CASA plan.
The entrada backers each own a share of the streaming rights to the vocal for one year after its release, Askew said, and they tin cull to funnel whatever profits from streaming to Scioto CASA also.
"Then it'south a double thing. If the song becomes successful, even more money from the song will be able to back up the clemency," said Tengblad, speaking by phone from Stockholm.
"Bullheaded Center" is only the first, both for RWR and Ohio Against Opioids.
The v members of RWR are back together again writing songs, with concerts planned for the bound.
Taucher has been flying from Helsinki to Portsmouth every two months for the past year to work on videos about RWR and the fight against opioid addiction, the first of which will exist released on YouTube in mid-January, with a longer i due in April, and to piece of work with Scioto CASA.
"In January, Clint and I are going to sit down and go over with them what their needs are. We want to make certain that each cent is targeted towards their needs. We are hands-on there to make sure that it's used the right way," Taucher said.
A website for "Ohio Against Opioids" is in the works, as are other projects.
"What nosotros hope is that this is a pay-information technology-forward sort of thing. Nosotros would love to see this proceed and bring in more music and ignite other projects. And then we could take this local story and try to spread it in the global customs," Tengblad said.
As for Portsmouth, Beveled is cautiously optimistic.
"It's still a drug hub, just there are a lot of people trying to rebuild the city. At that place's still darkness, but in that location'south a light coming."
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"Bullheaded Middle" is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
Source: https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/2022/01/04/blind-eye-song-portsmouth-ohio-rappers-opioid-addiction/8996896002/
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