a million different hip-hop blogs, this one's a gem

Hip-hop today is bigger than ever and we are bombarded by popular songs almost everywhere we look, radio, tv, movies, PA systems at the mall and even on your friends iPod! This makes it difficult to find anything good except for what's in the mainstream. It's like trying to see a beautiful painting only to have someone hang a crappy poster of Lil' Wayne in front of it. I guess what we are trying to do here is show you that there is hope in the hip-hop world, that there is something other than 50 Cent and Akon. We are not going to limit ourselves to "Alternative" hip-hop, nor even hip-hop in general! It's all about finding the best music out there, showing you guys all the classics and the slept-on gem's. We are indiscriminate in what we are gonna bring to this blog, as long as it's good. We want to show you how hip-hop music has evolved, glancing upon everything, from jazz to soul, funk to electronica, if it's influential and good, you will likely see it on this blog at some point. Basically if you want to expand your musical knowledge or to see where hip-hop came from or even to just hear about good music, than this blog is a good starting place. We implore you to look up what you see here; learn about it, listen to it and tell other people about it. The internet is a great wealth of knowledge (and porn) use it to your advantage and learn what you can. Our goal is to turn as many people on to good music as we can, because it's not just Kanye West and E-40, or even Aesop Rock and Atmosphere.

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