"It's so important that every time someone comes in the door they're hearing the music being played in here," she said. "People can try it out and see how their music is being graded, and independent artists can be heard."
Independent artists are also spotlighted through Deep Flow TV. The show started airing online and on a cable access channel in 2005, and now she has four videographers filming for Deep Flow. Last year, they shot 50 episodes and won a local media award.
Deep Flow TV features interviews with established and up-and-coming rappers, as well as coverage of local hip-hop events. The show lends credence to the city's growing hip-hop and Baltimore club scene, said Shawn Caesar, co-founder of the local label Unruly Records. Beale's work is helping to put Baltimore on the map, he said.
"Having it on video legitimizes it," Caesar said. "Seeing is believing, and documenting it like that is vitally important."
Beale shot a pilot episode and shopped around Deep Flow TV to networks. A couple expressed interest, but she's waiting to hammer out the best deal. If picked up by a network, the show would center on her and Deep Flow's clientele.
"It's about the souls and the lives of people struggling to make it in the music business, and a female struggling to run her own business and make it happen for those people," she said.
Beale still struggles to grow Deep Flow, but she has had her fair share of success. That original studio rate of $15 has more than tripled. Profits from Deep Flow have helped her buy a house and a car, and she recently moved into a larger studio space on East Patapsco Avenue, also in Brooklyn.
"I'm doing really well," she said. "In the scheme of other 27-year-olds who went to college, I don't know about that. But they're probably not having as much fun as I'm having."
