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Cublunk thinks Harvard already revolutionized hip-hop once. And Cublunk is not the type of guy who gives out free praise to a place like Harvard...
...Part of what college radio should do is spotlight overlooked artists.” But now, perhaps paradoxically, given hip-hop’s current preeminence in the music business, Felton, Jacoby and a new generation of student DJs and MCs are attempting to restore hip-hop’s airspace at Harvard. This semester saw the inaugural broadcast of the newly resurrected “Dark Side.” Though hip-hop continues to dominate popular culture, Felton cites the burgeoning existence of an independent rap scene as justification for revived radio coverage. “Artists like...
...said that hip-hop is “the sovereign state of the have-nots.” Take a look around the Yard—there isn’t too much that undergrads can’t have. So, by the Mighty Mos’ standards, Harvard hip-hop is dead in the cradle, right...
...fast. It’s not necessarily a lack of good material that prevents Harvard students from making it in the rap game. Indeed, two white boys from radio station WHRB understood hip-hop culture so well that they managed to create the longest-running and arguably most influential magazine about the genre and its artists. And in the past five years, two rap crews with Harvard undergraduates have rubbed elbows with the mainstream’s biggest stars, verging on national fame...
...give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train—with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...