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...typical nightclub from New York. As we approached the front of the line, a woman with a clipboard scanned our outfits. “C’est bon.” As we made our way into the pseudo-cavern, I felt the pumping beats of the aged hip-hop. We were already pretty buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they?...
...earlier this year, Tef found a new project. In March, he drove to a Hip Hop Summit in Madison, Wisconsin. The meeting, which was supposed to bring together rappers from across the country to encourage political consciousness, changed Tef’s priorities...
Everywhere you look, St. Louis’s hip hop scene has become politicized. “People always put political stuff in their lyrics,” says Tef. “The difference is that now people are bloodthirsty for that kind of stuff...
When his friends became involved in politics, Gabe Moskof—a DJ known as Trackstar—resisted at first, saying he would rather focus on his music. But as St. Louis’s hip hop scene became more and more dominated by what Moskof calls “the Bush issue,” even he got dragged in. At the request of two national political groups, he helped promote a St. Louis event called Slam Bush, where hip hop artists rapped at a person in a George Bush mask as if they had actually gotten...
...hip hop community is not a perfect model for organizing. University City, the area that produced Nelly and boasts some of the best hip hop clubs in St. Louis, is one of the most segregated places in the country. Ron Gubitz, a white hip hop fan who teaches at a largely African-American inner-city high school, fears that St. Louis’s hip hop community doesn’t do enough to reach out to people like his students...