Introduction: The 6 States
Hip Hop culture has been my life ever since I first popped and waved my first arm joints, ever since “Heartbeat” and “Rapper’s Delight” filled my ear passage. The Boston Hip Hop scene itself, has been a huge part of my life ever since I heard The MC Capers, Almighty RSO Crew, Fresh to Impress, Roxbury Crush Crew, Beatbox A-Train, Body Rock Crew…and many many more that I will have a more detailed blog on in the future.
That was the years of 79-89, Floorlords…R.S.O. and Magnus Johnstone (Leccos Lemma). There was a huge amount of influence in my life from many of the artists that claimed fame within a city some would call a mini New York. But we suffered because New York was such a huge Hip Hop industry. We had our nice moments…Guru, Dave Mays & The Source, and of course the very well known Edo G Yet we never fully cracked the gateway to the industry.
A few years later we had success with artist’s Mr. Lif, Krumbsnatcha, Akrobatik and 7L & Esoteric, along with many other’s that made up our underground scene. Yes we got more attention then too, but nothing that showed that we had a big scene brewing all over Mass and even more so New England.
There were a few magazine’s that had started up that gave us some hope: The Source, Fever Mag, Punchline…but they all seemed too concerned with the bigger industry much more than our own scene. Don’t get me wrong there were some articles and stories printed on our artists…but the main concern was still the Jay Z’s, Puffy’s and Dre’s. The Source of course went on to be the forefront of all Hip Hop media…Fever eventually faded away as well as Punchline.
In my present day, I looked back at our history here within the scene and thought…where is our media outlet!? I don’t mean, a quarter page write up quickly pasted together and most likely missed between, 50 Cent’s 8 page interview and the article on why the Industry is in a struggle. I mean a full blown magazine from cover to cover, the represents all 6 states of this region’s Hip Hop industry…absolutely nowhere to be found…in over 25 years.
At the same time, I’ve read up on a small indie mag down south that has grown to a national media outlet for a lot of smaller artists from that region…Orlando Source, which later would go on in a much bigger way as O-Zone magazine. So here it is a great media source that reps an entire regional area first. So that combined with my own knowledge of New England music and hip hop history, as well as my past love for a now gone publication (RAP PAGES)…Boston Hip Hop Pages is born.
The idea is pretty simple, Boston is the most well known capital city in all of New England (The Gateway), so the idea was to create an outlet that the name alone would draw many people to, yet still include the 6 States of the Northeast as a unified front to together break through that gateway and be exposed throughout the worldwide industry…nice!!!
Today we are blessed with artist’s that are an even bigger inspiration, artist’s such as Smoke Bulga, Dre Robinson, Termanology, Ed Rock (Easy Money), Bad Newz (of Strezzed Out), Slaine, LT, Prano, A.W.O.L., G-Eyez, Frank Buddas, Rook Rukus, Affiliate, Lou Armstrong Frankie Wainwright, The Syndicate, Swann Notty, Paper Boyz, Jus Mula, LB, Prophis, Aztext…and so very many more. Who in their right mind, could ever say we don’t have an incredible scene here?!!
This blog spot will do much in exposing New England’s Industry players to the world wide blogsphere…DJ’s, websites, retail, labels and all the different movers doing their respected thing for the Hip Hop movement here in the North Atlantic region. If you’ve read this I very much thank you and hope you’ll stick around for much more to come…
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