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...says the city is a bizarre reversal of traditional regional hip-hop politics: the underground artists are dominating the audiences, at the expense of what he calls “the so-called ‘hood rappers’, the kids from the streets, telling their stories...
...love underground hip-hop,” he says. “But in Boston, the more mainstream, basic, beat-driven hip-hop is being pushed underground by the underground...
Cublunk gives an example: a concert at the Middle East featuring Brooklyn hardcore rap legends M.O.P. Instead of presenting their beat-heavy street tales, the hip-hop duo, at the request and advice of the promoters, brought a rock band to the concert in order to appeal to the college crowd. The mixture didn’t work...
...like Tha League and WPP before him, believes firmly in the primacy of artistic vision. “If I want to do something substantial for hip-hop, and I see Lil’ Wayne is the one on the pop charts,” he says, “I’m gonna go somewhere else...
Part of Cublunk’s mission is to stress that artists like Kinkopf and Shiftee have everything to gain by giving at least a little bit of the spotlight to alternative styles of hip-hop, even if those styles are more mainstream, more traditional, more “street...