[VladVladikoff]

When I was a teenager I was friends with an extremely poor kid who literally lived on the wrong side of the tracks. He couldn’t afford a microphone and used an old pair of busted headphones to rap into as a microphone. He had recorded and produced a whole album like this with Fruity Loops on an old computer he found discarded at the side of the road.

[QuercusMax]

My little brother and I did this with an old Panasonic tape recorder. We were in elementary school so it wasn't very good, but it got my brother into music production.

[dustractor]

Busted headphones taped to a broomstick was my friend's microphone of choice when he did punk shows

[gfiorav]

what happened to him?

[IncreasePosts]

He ended up producing a documentary you can watch, called 7 Mile.

[metrix]

So authoritative!

You had me for a second :)

[nullsanity]

What do you think? He was poor in America, so he stayed poor in America. 99.999% of stories about people in hopeless poverty end with them in hopeless poverty. To expect otherwise is ludicrous.

[Evidlo]

Wow, what are the odds you were friends with him too!