Psst, Have You Heard What’s Going Down at Brooklynite Projects?

– an art gallery that opened 5 years ago on Malcolm X Boulevard known for its uber-cool music collaborations with big bands, swing bands and hip hop legends, such as Soul Sonic Force, Prince Paul and Kook Herc – recently has branched out to become “Brooklynite Projects.”

If you're already familiar with the gallery and thought it couldn’t stretch its creative muscle any further, you thought wrong: The gallery no longer is limited to visual and music art exhibitions, but has broadened its role to become a creative studio, developing and promoting ventures that raise audience sensibility around the creative arts in general.

Also, in this new incarnation, the gallery’s owner has decided to erase the notion the gallery should be represented by one person or a singular face.

“Galleries tend to be on the opposite side of the artist, known for trying to make money for the gallery, instead of promoting the artist for what they’re doing,” said Brooklynite Projects. “From now on, the gallery will be the face of itself, an entity that just exudes creativity as a collective.”

So for now, there’s no art showing at the gallery, as its current embodiment has taken the shape of a film and video studio, where a new web series, “StereoTypes,” currently is in the middle of production.

The first two of the 10-episode series can be viewed now on the YouTube Channel “I am Other,” as one of seven shows executive produced by hip hop music producer Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes. “I am Other” also carries popular shows like “Awkward Black Girl,” and “Voices of Art,” about artists doing things in a political-cultural context.

“One of the producers of Pharrell’s channel knew about us, our past projects, liked what Brooklynite was about, where we were situated (in Bed-Stuy), and asked Brooklynite to pitch a project,” said Rae, the show’s producer. “So we came up with this show called ‘StereoTypes,’ which has a double meaning: What kind of music are you listening to? And how does that relate to stereotypes of people?”

The show’s host, Ryan Hall, does man-on-the-street interviews around the five boroughs of New York examining a person’s music taste and underlying biases based on what other people look like, versus what they might be listening to.

“It’s like a pseudo-survey, a light-hearted, humorous approach to things. But it opens it up for further discussion,” said Rae. “We’re not coming up with any solutions to anything; we’re just raising awareness for people.

"And the topics are really kind of created by the people on the street. We may go out there with a certain question, but if people keep answering something in a certain way, then for the next interview, we’ll ask what they think about what everybody else is saying.”

To catch episodes of “StereoTypes,” subscribe here to the “I am Other” channel on YouTube.

Rae says he doesn’t know whether the series will continue into next year. But for now, Brooklynite Projects will just focus on pushing the needle as far as it can with what’s in front of them, while remain equally excited about whatever lies ahead.

For Brooklynite Projects, it’s no longer about one singular thing anyway; it’s about the “projects,” a name that when you hear it carries a load of connotations.

“And you know what? I like that, because it changes the context of things, and we’re all about that kind of stuff.

“The more people don’t talk about something, the more they want to talk about something… We like to present projects that make people have taboo conversations.”

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