Tory Osborne, Teyana Jackson, Kendall Mears and Niajah Hood dance to DJ Jayare’s set between rap performances during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) A concertgoer embraces another during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) Aiesha Lewis, the event coordinator at Flint Downtown Development Authority, dances during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) Flint-based rappers Shorti and Hood Ghandi perform during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) Flint-based rapper Shorti performs as he walks through the crowd during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) Flint-based musician Yama performs during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. Women step to DJ Jayare’s set between rap performances during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. (Michael Indriolo | Flint Beat) Flint-based rapper Jada Ali performs during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. It’s not mine.” Flint-based rapper Jada Ali dances on a row of speakers while she performs during The Antidote Fest at Brush Park in Downtown Flint, Mich. That’s our medium that we choose to operate in and help people through. “We want to be the cure, and music is at the center of that for us. “The city of Flint has been hurt by so many things, from economic type of issues to the water crisis,” Thorn said. Thorn said The Antidote got its name through its mission: to “cultivate a cure for our community.”

In addition to producing tracks for numerous local artists, the studio offers educational programs for young people enrolled at SBEV. The Antidote Studio, launched in 2020, is a nonprofit recording studio based out of the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village (SBEV) on Flint’s northside. Everything musically going on here is the sound of Flint.” “But the whole irony of it was that there is no sound of Flint, you get what I’m saying?” Thorn said.

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