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  • When Did You Fall in Love With Hip-Hop

    When Did You Fall in Love With Hip-Hop

    One of my favorite movies is and will always be Brown Sugar. Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan star in a romantic comedy, but the twist of the movie is if the romance in question is with Hip-Hop itself or a woman. In Brown Sugar, both Diggs and Lathan are childhood…

  • Top 5

    Top 5

    Have you ever played the Top 5 game? It’s pretty simple, find a group of people and ask them to list their Top 5 artists, albums, producers or pretty much anything else and I grantee a larger conversation will ensue. Personally my Top 5 list in most things changes with…

  • The State of Hip-Hop

    The State of Hip-Hop

    If you ask anyone from the ages of 10-70 what Hip-Hop meant to them and what they think of it now, you’ll probably get a million different answers. I think more than any other genre Hip-Hip/Rap is the most criticized. The current narrative is that a lot of rappers lack…

  • Stan Culture is ruining Hip-Hop

    Stan Culture is ruining Hip-Hop

    I’m starting to believe that Stan culture is destroying the Hip-Hop community. The terms “Being a Stan” or “Stan Culture” comes from a Eminem song called Stan where he raps from the perspective of an extreme fan. The fan has dyed and cut his hair to look like Eminem and…