Word: hip-hop
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...attributes the rapid and positive evolution of hip-hop in Boston in large part to “the college crowd, who were open to hear anything fresh...
...pays homage to Boston’s hip-hop roots on his 2000 debut EP Enters the Colossus—a bare-bones affair featuring old-school beats and some cocksure rhyming. On the album’s closing track, he names the influences, collaborators and contemporaries who jumpstarted his career, name-dropping several Boston colleges before mentioning Harvard radio...
...stake [his] claim as an emcee.” Lif and other up-and-comers—including Mr. Turk, 7L and DJ Sense, who features on Colossus—started putting on shows at the Middle East club in Central Square, which flew the flag for Boston hip-hop...
...three years, he’s only seen one fight at a show—and that was started by an outside gang—in marked contrast to the stereotypical hip-hop scene...
Meanwhile, college radio helped sustain the less commercial, independent hip-hop movement...