Then-seventh-graders Luke Pearcy and Charlie Carroll are sitting in Pearcy’s walk-in closet, rapping verses from their notes app into the microphone on their earbuds. Surrounding the boys were Lego sets and bright purple LED lights. Pearcy had seen the fun other kids at school were having creating lyrics and recording their songs and wanted to try it out. He convinced Carroll to join him in their makeshift “studio”— every once in a while, convincing classmates to join them to freestyle a verse. The group would pick a beat off YouTube and jokingly freestyle over it — sometimes even adding “effects” to their voices by covering the earbuds microphone with a sock before saving it on GarageBand. To read more, click the link in bio. #storybyemmersonwinfrey #photobymasonsajna #socialmediabysydneyeck