Watch the official music video for "Roll Call" Directed By TT The Artist

With the reawakening of Baltimore and Jersey club music's infectious beats, artists such as Drake, Diddy, Kanye West, M.I.A., Missy Elliot, Ciara, and more have all explored the homegrown sounds from these major cities. 'Roll Call,' is a musical ode to the culture of Baltimore club dance and profiles local influencers, dancers, and creatives from the region.

TSU Terry joins forces with the Baltimore Club Queen TT The Artist and Baltimore club super producer Mighty Mark, who all deliver a high energy, adrenaline pumping performance. The video also features a few all star cameos including Bmore club music pioneer Dj Boo Man and a first time music video cameo by the official Baltimore Orioles Bird Mascot. Featured in the critically acclaimed, award winning film 'Dark City Beneath The Beat,' a musical documentary about the Baltimore club music and dance culture now streaming on Netflix and directed by TT The Artist, 'Roll Call,' was released under Issa Rae's Raedio Records in collaboration with Club Queen Records.

Directed by: TT The Artist

Director: of Photography Tylerbstudios

Edited by: TT The Artist and Tylerbstudios

Colorist: TT THE ARTIST

Production Assistant: Ihana Brown Location

Manager: Don Trunk

Location: Dream 1st Studios-Baltimore, MD Intro

Sound Design - TT The Artist

Roll Call Produced by: Mighty Mark

Featured Talent DJ Boo Man Sunny Cowell Jaylen Brown April Byrd Akira Ayymello Paris La'nae Runitup Jordan TSU Rum Rashamell Scott Brandon Puryear Kai McFly Teryn Dickson Ihana Brown Chyno The Baltimore Foodie John Tyler Sounds Kelly Harris Tonea Rice Kayla Garner Chelsea Nicole Julia Swinson Danyell Williams Dietrich Williams Marcel Tracy April Byrd Sammie The Legend Alise Curtis Kayla Garner Yannababy Dee Milan Marquis Revlon Kory Kruze Deniim Skinny Girl Tonya Douglass Akira Thomas Kenneth Worsley

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Support Ms. Tonya's Celebration of Life GoFundme

“We have to come together because we are all we have!”

-Neek B Chillin Founder of Bmore Than Dance

Today, we mourn the loss of a true pioneer, a Baltimore club queen, legend, mother, mentor, & friend to the Baltimore club community Ms. Tonya.

Ms. Tonya & Dark City Beneath The Beat Director TT The Artist

Ms. Tonya opened her doors and kitchen to a whole community of people. She accepted everyone and always had the biggest smile. She knew how to motivate others and believed in making a safe space for young people in Baltimore. She was a hidden hero to the community of Baltimore City and deserves all her flowers.

We are kindly asking that if you find it in your heart, you can support the family and loved ones of

Ms. Tonya by donating to her ‘Celebration of Life,’ homegoing service.

Click here to make a donation—-> Ms. Tonya GoFundme



Thank you for your service and unwavering love Ms. Tonya. You are forever in our hearts!

Variety Reviews Dark City Beneath Hot Docs International Premiere

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“We dance in the streets because we don’t have anywhere to go now.” There is much that sticks and stutters and loops in the mind after watching “Dark City Beneath the Beat,” a bright, ebullient and simultaneously seething musical documentary dedicated to the Baltimore club scene, but that’s the line that lingers longest. An apparent expression of joy, chased by an admission of crushing, unequal reality, it’s said matter-of-factly by a young black choreographer trying to keep art alive in the face of diminished creative space. It distils the push-pull impulses of TT The Artist’s unique film, which mixes and remixes fluorescently staged performance and candid sidewalk-level vérité to offer an abstract history of a city’s rich musical subculture, a busy snapshot of the black community in which it flourishes, and a consciousness-raising statement of resistance against political and economic oppressors. All that in 65 minutes, and the beat never lets up once.

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TT The Artist's Dark City Beneath the Beat is a visually compelling treat of the heartbeat and expression in Baltimore through its provocative and affectionate citizens. 

TT The Artist stars, edits and directs this documentary/music video with a strong visual and captivating prowess that utterly engulfs the audience in a range of tone – via expression of vivid colour, unique sound and a poignant heart. Gone and stripped are the genre conventions of a documentary and in its place of generic assembly, TT The Artist explores heavy and enlightening conversation through all manners of artistic voice.

Injected are a personalised style and aesthetic of music and culture that personifies the unique individualism of the documentary's setting and subject. Tackling issues of gun control, Black Lives Matter and government reform in distinctive and unique ways of expressive performance: ranging from dance to spoken word to song. Each moment holds its weight and power with profound consequence. Specifically, the documentary's thematic importance of the darker side of Baltimore and its underbelly of economic distress. Yet the execution of this are as equally as compelling and engaging as the exploration of the brighter ends of society, which fights against its stereotypical and often controversial tag.

Every second of TT The Artist’s Dark City Beneath the Beat examines and highlights the richness and character of Baltimore in an efficacious and intense aesthetic that is both individual and enjoyable to behold, with distinctive characteristics and emotions involved. 

Review courtesy of Clapper

IndieWire Review Dark City Beneath The Beat

‘Dark City Beneath the Beat’ Review: TT the Artist Remixes Baltimore Into 65-Minute Club Banger

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While the 2020 SXSW Film Festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus, IndieWire is covering select titles from this year’s edition. 

In 1927, filmmaker Walter Ruttman rendered Berlin as a cinematic symphony; in 2020, TT the Artist uses her camera to remix Baltimore into a 65-minute banger. A full-body ode to her hometown and the incredible people who keep it bouncing in spite of everything else, “Dark City Beneath the Beat” isn’t just a blood-stained but ecstatically hopeful love letter to Bmore, it’s also the most danceable movie this side of “Girl Walk//All Day.”

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With full acknowledgment of the big picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Coping With COVID-19 Crisis is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses and individuals can best ride out a crisis that doesn’t look like it will abate any time soon.

An up and coming Baltimore-based music artist whose directorial debut documentary about the rhythms, dance and challenges facing her city was set to premiere at South By Southwest, TT The Artist shares the disappointment of seeing her dream temporarily dashed when Austin abruptly ordered the festival canceled.

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EATON WORKSHOPS

Director TT The Artist joined by Dark City main cast members Mighty Mark and TSU Dance Crew performs at Eaton Workshops in Washington, DC.

MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL 2018 X PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Director TT The Artist joins a panel of  filmmakers and discusses making films  about Baltimore with panelist including: Theo Anthony (Baltimore Filmmaker, Rat Film), Marilyn Ness (Director, CHARM CITY), Matthew Porterfield (Director, SOLL…

Director TT The Artist joins a panel of  filmmakers and discusses making films  about Baltimore with panelist including: Theo Anthony (Baltimore Filmmaker, Rat Film), Marilyn Ness (Director, CHARM CITY), Matthew Porterfield (Director, SOLLERS POINT), Alexandra Shiva (Director, THIS IS HOME)  at the Maryland Film Festival 2018.

Dark City Beneath The Beat Director TT The Artist and Theo Anthony Directed of Rat Filmphotos by Stan Jaworski

Dark City Beneath The Beat Director TT The Artist and Theo Anthony Directed of Rat Film

photos by Stan Jaworski

BALTIMORE MAGAZINE X DARK CITY BENEATH THE BEAT OFFICIAL TRAILER PREMIERE

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Baltimore Club queen TT The Artist has released the trailer for her much-anticipated documentary, Dark City: Beneath the Beat. The film tells the story of Baltimore through its hometown music genre, locally known as Bmore Club, and features some of the city's notable movers-and-shakers, like DDm, Eze Jackson, Rufus Roundtree, and the TSU Dance Crew to name a few. We talked with TT about her initiation to club music, the film’s importance, and her dreams of giving it a big-bang Baltimore premiere in spring 2019.

Click link to read  full  interview  http://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/4/20/tt-the-artist-debuts-trailer-for-dark-city-beneath-the-beat