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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...
...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...
...kid” he’s talking about is David M. Mays ’89, creator of “The Source” magazine. The two “sides” to which Cublunk refers are the underground hip-hop scene—the world of MCs with wordy lyrics and cult followings—and the street-hop scene—the grit-obsessed world that dominates mainstream...
...respected and understood the underground and the street, and he did more for hip-hop than anybody,” Cublunk says of Mays...
...decades of existence, “The Source” shaped the modern face of the genre. Before “The Source,” professional hip-hop criticism was nonexistent; only a handful of records (such as those of Public Enemy and Run-DMC) were seriously analyzed and treated as both art and entertainment, but even then were usually reviewed by critics specializing in rock...