Video project WIP: The Ghost of Dopetracks


For a few years I was KristiKrisis - the cat-fishing grande dame of a big hip hop collaboration website. At first I was just me, uploading beats and being British-nice, but nobody took much notice. So I set up a new profile using my wife’s pictures and adopted a much more gnarly identity, saying what I really thought about beats and emcees. 

She a big name on the site, producing monthly compilations of the best, producing tracks with emcees and eventually got hired by the site to create the content. Inevitably my house of lies came tumbling down when an emcee who knew my real identity spilled the beans to deflect from a brutal diss. 

A handful of people knew, most didn’t. It was quite a kerfuffle: many respected my hussle, many really hated me for the deception. For some reason it seemed like a good idea to journey aorund the states and meet some of community. I met about around 30 of them across almost 20 cities. 

I’ve been gathering footage over the years and some day I’ll tell the story of a community who did great things before the site went under. These people have brought me so much joy over the years, open thier homes to me and many are still close friends. I miss DT; we all do.  back to projects

Of the many people filmed I did get around to teaser edits of a few of them. More to come.
Realstyles communicated pretty much exclusively in freestyles for 2 days.  
The first of the monthly mixtapes. I’m very proud to have collaborated with them.