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  • EbGb, his wife, Chantel, left, and friend, Chris Brenon, make a video for Eb's song, 3-2-1 at Orange Glow Music, Inc. The video required acting, something that was new for the three. While Brenon managed to keep a straight face, Eb and Chantel got the giggles.
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  • Ernie Bordon, "EbGb," gives a performance at the Apple Store in Naples, Fla. as iTunes featured artist. EbGb says he gives the same performance for 10 people as he would for 10,000. "I make music that I would like, even if it wasn't my own shit. I think more people should do that. When you make music for yourself?you're going to touch certain people. You have to do you, 100 per cent of the time."
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  • Hygher Level performs at Fear The Chausso 5 at Squarehead Venue in Naples. Squarehead is a new venue in the industrial area of Naples that promotes live music. This was a rare occasion for Fort Myers and Naples hip hop artists to come together for one show.
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  • TimWes, bottom, records a video with Gutta Slim and Naples rapper, Sho Zoe, for a song called "Flaggin' and Flexin'" on Lemon Street in Fort Myers, Fla. The Fort Myers police showed up to the video shoot because an anonymous caller said they saw suspicious activity taking place. The police only asked if there were any guns involved. TimWes explained that his music goes against that.
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  • Rappers EbGb, and Colby Roderick, a.k.a. Steady, a member of Hygher Level, and others hang out after the Fear The Chausso 5 concert at Squarehead Venue in Naples. This was a rare occasion for Fort Myers and Naples hip hop artists to come together for one show.
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  • "Music man, through and through. God must've known what he was doing when he gave me these hands." - Ebgb, "Let It Ride"
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  • Ernie Bordon, a Naples, Fla. rapper who goes by "EbGb," has been waiting his whole life to show the world what he can do with his music. He signed with Orange Glow Music, Inc. in Bonita Springs, Fla. and has spent a year recording new music. He feels like he's on the verge of making it.
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  • Freedom Hall, a collective of musicians and hip hop artists from Naples, perform their second-ever show in front of the Sydney & Berne Davis Art Center during Art Walk in Fort Myers. The group has conciously chosen to play shows at venues that cross cultural lines. Their style of music is issue-based. They hope to enlighten as much as entertain.
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  • Freddie Mediina isn't a musician, but was the mastermind forming the group Hygher Level in Fort Myers. Medina had their logo tattooed to his chest.
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  • TimWes works out in the backyard of a friend's home. TimWes believes that he has a responsibility to the community to rap about a legitimate lifestyle. "Athletes rappers: once you reach that lifestyle, you automatically a role model, 'cause the kids gonna look up to you. So, whatever you do, they gonna live by that."
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  • Timothy Powell, a.k.a. TimWes, looks at his own reflection in the computer as he works on music at his home in Fort Myers. TimWes didn't ever think about becoming a rapper until a friend told him he should try it. "The most important part to me, truthfully ? and most people probably don't wanna hear this ? first thing first, it's about the money to me. If I didn't know there was a million dollars at the end of this tunnel, I probably wouldn't pursue it as much as I'm pursuing it."
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  • Squeezing between a bed, a computer desk and a couch are seven members of the hip hop group, Hygher Level - a group of 10 emcees who have banded together for a "strength in numbers" approach breaking in to the hip hop scene. Here they gather at the home of Colby Roderick, a.k.a Steady, in Cape Coral, Fla.
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  • TimWes records the song "Unborn Child ? originally by the late rapper, Tupac Shakur ? in the closet studio of producer Dang Dizzle. Dizzle's studio is a room he rents from his sister-in-law in Lehigh Acres, Fla. TimWes, who is expecting his first child, calls himself Mr. ReceiptMoney, meaning he makes his money the legal way. "I'm in my own lane. I'm not competing," he said comparing himself to other rappers. "I'm the only one talkin' bout legal money."
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