By Lauren LaRocca
News-Post Staff
On a Thursday night in December, people packed in to the small Blinding Sun Records store in downtown Frederick to hear hip hop artists freestyle, one after the next, nonstop for two hours.
Two girls and a baby sat in the rear of the crowd, near the door, DJ Minus Nine was set up on the front counter, and store owner Jamie Waller sat high against the back wall, overlooking everything.
The crowd literally overflowed onto the street, where a smaller group congregated outside in the biting cold, smoking cigarettes, talking, and freestyling with each other over the beats that could be heard through the storefront windows.
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