Harlem+Room

The Harlem Room


Kim is wiped out from her many tries to find the right room. She enters the door with the sign "The Harlem Room", and she find herself out of the spa entirely. Kim has entered a hip and trendy jazz club where she immediately feels right at home. The walls are purple velvet with simple wooden chairs and benches around the room, and on the stage is a kind looking black man. The man introduces himself as poet Langston Hughes, and the jazz music swells in the background. Hughes starts to read his poem...

"What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?"

Kim is struck by the words and the cadence of his poem. As he steps down from the stage, Kim saunters over. She knows that her celebrity can get her anywhere, and she walks up to Hughes. He looks at her, but he doesn't recognize her. She is shocked, but she continues with her question. "How influential are you in the music industry?" she asks. He replies, "Very."

The two gallop down toKim's DASH store and begin planning Kim's new album. She takes jazz influence from Hughes as she writes her first single "Jam (Turn It Up)".