104 1/2 Street

Writers Eric Thomas and Tim Dati take you into the lives of five individuals trying to cope with life in America's most gritty and forgotten city. 104 1/2 Street is part 1 from the trilogy, " A MONTAGE OF LIFE" by the series producer Tim Dati.

Set in the grimey gutter inner city of Detroit, Michigan and the surrounding I-75 corridor of Flint and Saginaw, 104 1/2 Street gives you a slice of what life is like in blown out manufacturing cities who's time has come to past forever. This is the story of those left behind. Those overwhelmed by the day to day hardness of life. This is their story.

Inspired by real life, 104 1/2 Street brings you into the world of the Hip-Hop/Rap group Mizcellaneous and its members Streets, Big Kif and Mekko. Standing on the edge of fame and fortune, they see how quickly life can get out of control.

HIP-HOP GROUP MIZCELLANEOUS founded when two troubled inner city youths find each other while checked into the juvenile detention system. With Streets ability to write in the language of the Hood about the conditions of growing up in a gritty city and Big Kif's ability to deliver these words like a professional baseball pitcher's 90 mph fastball, Mizcellaneous is born. Together over the years they develope into one of the city's hottest Hip-Hop duos. Industry nights, basements rap champs, house party ciphers, ghetto juxsta's, gett'in high and rid'in high!

A local Detroit promoter/hustler by the name of Akeen takes notice and offers to work with them and "up their game". He introduces them to a another local cat from the Southwest Side of Detroit by the name of Mekko. A Mexican-American Hip-Hopper, who is the missing piece that pushes Streets, Big Kif and Mizcellaneous to the next level.

BIG KIF Black, Early 20s. Kif spent the his first 10 years growing up in the lower wards of New Orleans with his grandmother. After moving north to Detroit to reunite with his mother and baby sister Kiesha, the black hole in his heart got even deeper. A big and intiminating figure on the outside, he's a very hurt and wounded little boy on the inside. He quickly learned that to survive in the mean streets of this desparate city he had to hustle and hustle big. Lives at home with his mom and sister Keisha, who has a little baby from a thug who wants nothing to do with her or the baby. Although Kif and Kiesha are constantly on each other, Kif has bonded very strongly with his nephew. He sees himself in the little boy. His protector.

Well known in his neighborhood for his rap abilities, being in the Hip-Hop group Mizcellaneous has pushed his notoriety as one of the cities best Rap deliverymen far outside his hood. It was his best friend Streets lyrics that he used to earn the undisputed "Battle Rap Champ" of the city. Known as "The Shredder".

MEKKO  Mexican-American, Early 20s. Born and raised in SouthWest Detroit's Mexican Town. Used to be involved with a gang that would steal cars for export to Mexico. Has a father doing a very long stretch in prison who he misses very much. His mother and four sisters still live in SouthWest Detroit, but he has moved out of the city to distant himself from the "Elements". He lives with his Aunt and Nephew.

Mekko has been gifted with a singers heart, voice and good looks, but is deeply involved with Hip-Hop and the culture as his outlet at this point in his life. Detroit promoter Akeem brought him into the group Mizcellaneous. His addition solidified it as the most popular sound coming out of the Gritty City.

VONDA Black, early 20s, beautiful. Streets girlfriend. Born and raised on the industrial upper end of the I-75 corridor of Saginaw, a.k.a. SagNasty, she moved to Detroit at the age of eight with her mother and sister shortly after the death of her father. She watched her dad die from a herion overdose. This changed her life forever.

After being lost in the world for a minute, she regained control and enrolled in a college program to become a nurse. Still holding onto a small piece of her past, she works part time as a stripper to support herself and pay for nursing school. She believes that being a stripper is the fastest and easiest way for her to make money.

She met Streets one night at a party in Detroit where he and Kif were cipher'in. She was captivated by his poetic soul. He was captivated by her beauty. She always got alot of static from black guys about being with a white boy, but she didn't care much about what anybody said.