“I’m really excited to just be able to plug in the artists I’m plugging in. “I would’ve never known they’d offer their platform for people who look like us, you know what I’m saying?” she says. Local dance unit Trend N Motion are wind.ĭutch says she was strategic about connecting Black artists directly with the Museum of Science. Taking place on March 25 via livestream, Dutch handpicked Boston artists who she felt could best correspond with each component of the performance to fill particular roles.Įarth takes form in the boisterous King Fiya.įire is represented by Haitian and dancehall artists Eddy Fish, Hundred Round Kado, Reem Skully, and Shellz. As fans may remember, he magically appeared when the five elements combined. The rapper used her childhood memories for thematic fodder to devise Dutchy’s Planet: When Powers Combine, her modernized and more eclectic take on the popular ’90s environmental cartoon Captain Planet. But hard work-including a sleek video for her single “Stony” featuring some of Boston’s most notable personalities, a popular freestyle on CWTFBradio, and modeling ventures-quickly paid off, and it wasn’t too long before the Museum of Science came knocking (again).ĭutch previously collaborated with the institution last July for one of their Subspace Sessions, a livestreamed “audio/visual experience.“ For that one, she advised, “Make sure you got the lights low, got your vibe accessories and enjoy the show.” This time, she is curating a whole original virtual live performance showcase from scratch for the MOS. Social media has always been crucial for artists to share and promote their work, so starting over from scratch was daunting. She was able to retrieve the former, but the latter was completely erased. Hip-hop culture is not just rap only-it’s everything we make it.”ĭutch says part of her reconfiguration was forced due to technological issues: her Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked last fall. I view this time as an opportunity to revisit what I’ve been doing to figure out what’s the best fit. “I became naïve to the fact that people wanted to hear what I had to say whether I thought it was important or not.
“There was a point where it just wasn’t fun anymore,” Dutch shares.
She’s been rapping for over a decade, and had admittedly been stuck in a perfunctory way of doing things. Dutch was styled by Amy Lin at MCM Worldwide, Copley Place Boston.Įven though COVID-19 has forced many musicians to return to the drawing board and stunted their creative output, Boston mainstay and hip-hop provocateur Dutch ReBelle has welcomed the reprieve. Dutch returns to MOS for a full-on virtual production (with collaborators this time).
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