Shortly after this year's South by Southwest, I heard about a kid from Indianapolis who was invited to Austin, Texas, to play. He was a deejay, I heard, and maybe a musician. Intrigued, I found him on Twitter and then invited him to a conversation at Starbucks.

I always like to park outside of the venue where I'm meeting someone for the first time and try to guess which person they are in the crowd. I was spot-on with the artist known as BlottBoyy. He was a cool-looking person. He appeared young and as if he were probably in the popular and artsy group at school. I watched him go in and then gathered my things to join him. What followed was a great conversation between us.

Not only did I find out about this amazing Indy-based artist but I got an interesting perspective into what Indy's arts and culture scene is lacking -- mainly outlets for our under-21 crowd. And, as he astutely put it, they are the next young professionals in this town -- if we can keep them here. They're the next everything. And we're not doing an awesome job at making them feel like there's a place for them. Here I thought we were progressing by leaps and bounds -- and we are, but I realized in the conversation below that there's much work to do if we want to retain our young creatives. Read on to learn more about my talk with the North Central High School senior who goes by BlottBoyy. - Malina Simone Jeffers