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When Saeed Crumpler comes to the Bay Area this weekend for the BraveMaker Film Festival, he’ll be returning to the soil that launched an unlikely journey.
For 20 years, the Oakland-raised Crumpler rapped under the stage name Balance, making music with Kendrick Lamar and Traxamillion before flipping the script in 2021 to become a full-time television and film writer.
On Saturday, Crumpler appears alongside podcast host Hilliard Guess at the film festival’s Screenwriters’ Rant Room “Live” Roundtable to discuss his unconventional path to Hollywood and unique approach to the industry…