DEATH OF THE FRE$H
ABSTRACT:
Two Ghettogenious Superheroines: Asia and Miss Dissya are on a mission to save hiphop.
While on this dangerous mission, they discover that in order to save hiphop
they must also save the world
ASIA: A ghetto emcee, scholar, and revolutionary grappling with the question of whether revolution can occur without violence. A fringe anarchist who is studying the nature of capitalism, communism, socialism and anarchy in an attempt to discover the blueprint for a more harmonious, equitable and free society. An adept emcee who weaves politics into her lyrics, she wants more than anything to put her rhymes out and have them transform enough minds to create a critical mass of humanity who will create the new society.
POWERS: Freestyling, streetfighting, charisma, de-ciphering codes and systems of information
Miss Dissya: A ghetto deejay, musical scholar and electronic musician. Her mission is to collect all music of all marginalized peoples, specifically music descended from the African Diaspora, and the disappearing Indigenous World. It is her mission to somehow liberate the airwaves from the steady stream of sex, utlraviolence, and wack music which corrupts the masses.
POWERS: Charm, hypnosis, musical alchemy, psychic warfare, computer hacking
Asia and Miss Dissya live in dangerous times
SETTING: Post Millennium NYC, sometime in the near future. The hypersexualized and violent masses are being sent to fight the bloodiest war in world history. The war is fought in Mesopotamia under the guise of securing the oil supply which fuels the majority of technology on the planet. Ultimately, this war is supported on both sides by the US and the secret purpose is to drastically reduce the population of non-elites (known as disposdisposables).
The city is breaking down. Most people live in shanty towns. The power elite have taken over all of Manhattan Island. The outer boroughs are forgotten, squalid, and crumbling. The US is run by a corporate megalopolis called Hearchannel (known by the elite as Fearchannel) Hearchannel is working on a plan to colonize space and turn planet earth into a garbage planet: a home for waste, refuse, jails, the poor, people of color and all marginalized and criminalized non-elite. Hearchannel is a large clumsy bureaucracy, with so much energy devoted to the development of an outerspace colony, that it is utterly dysfunctional. Hearchannel runs everything outside of Manhattan Island using outdated, archaic and shoddy equipment and methods. Hearchannel corporate managers use FRESH artists as fodder for their mindcontrol system. They steal these artists from the underground and create hypnotic, violent and sexualized songs and videos into which they record a sonic frequency that puts the masses in a trance
There is a small underground who does not listen to mainstream TV or radio enough to be fully entranced. This underground is politicized and loosely organized into bands and tribes. Many of theses tribes use homemade, ragtag disguises to rob the elite on excursions to Manhattan Island. Asia and Miss Dissya are a visible part of this underground society. Listeners, followers and supporters of grassroots, underground music and media, the underground consciousness is relatively fresh and therefore its denizens are very critical of the government, but they do not know the full extent of Hearchannels plan.
And although Hearchannel systematically co-opts artists from this society to avoid a revolution, they are relatively unaware that this very underground will become
a formidable adversary