“Hip-hop was never meant to be here,” Moe Pope told the crowd of family, friends, and artistic associates who came out for the event.
A MEAN TEAM: A SHORT HISTORY OF ‘THROWING THREES’
Why do Boston hip-hop artists raise their pinky, ring, and middle fingers to make “three stripes” in photos?
REST IN BEATS DJ ON&ON
On a fractured scene for which the go-to metaphor has always been a crab bucket, On&On was a uniter with friends on all sides.
‘SHOW ‘EM WHATCHA GOT’ AT THE MASS HIP-HOP ROADSHOW
The scrapbook party rockers are asking heads in their network and whoever else is in possession of relevant goods to bring items to be digitally archived, so that all eras and elements of the culture can be represented and catalogued for future generations—for research purposes, sure, but primarily so that their contributions can be scanned in stone.
REST IN BEATS DRU GARRITY
Commonwealth Records founder was relentless advocate for artists
THROWBACK: REVISITING ROCK AGAINST RACISM
Mass Hip-Hop Archive breaks critical positive gem out the vault
BEFORE THEY WERE ANTI-HEROES
A vaulted dispatch from the first time Termanology and Slaine recorded together
THE PERCEPTIONISTS SURVIVE DEATH TO MAKE ‘RESOLUTION’
One person who isn’t called out by name—the current president of the United States.
DEAR READER: A COUPLE WORDS ON HIP-HOP, HATRED, AND COMMUNITY
More important than the ink I spilled, however, was the family I became a part of.
QURAN DMC: BLAK MADEEN ON MUSLIMS, FIVE-PERCENTERS, HIP-HOP, AND MARCO RUBIO
While most facets of American society revolve around Christianity, as Yusuf and AL-J are quick to note, hip-hop circles around a different set of principles.
