With a cellphone in one hand, and a fist full of $20 bills in the other, Levon Williams (left), aka "Smiz" and bandmember "Villa" look to buy some marijuana before a recording session in Brookly, NY. Williams, a local rapper from Elizabeth City, NC, is trying to get his solo and group recording career started by playing small shows and regularly makes 500 mile round trips to New York to record with his group.