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...Massive Records started a little slow last Friday night. DJ Lay-Z-Boy spun records in the back, taking requests from the customers and showing off his scratching skills. A few local rappers wandered in and out, rifling through the record displays and talking to the four hip hop aficionados who run the place. Jesse Christopher, the loud-mouthed head of marketing for the upstart record shop, remained upbeat, placing calls to his friends in the Boston hip hop scene, inviting them to come down and try their hand at the mic. Anthony Bushu, the “mad mellow?...
Christopher, Bushu, and their partners are attempting to turn a decrepit space on the lower level of a Mass. Ave building—former home to Second Coming, an all-purpose music store that closed this summer—into the epicenter of the New England Hip Hop scene, just a block east of Harvard Square...
...Game, a rap rookie, still knew how a hip-hop veteran should respond. He and his entourage, also in New York and taken by surprise by 50’s comments, made their way to Hot 97. At the door, a scuffle broke out between the rappers’ respective entourages, leaving one man shot and hip-hop with another black eye. Clikkity Clank...
...Cent sold 1.1 million albums in four days—the formula works every time. But in the effort to avoid having a black person shot or stabbed every time the G-Unit releases an album, perhaps we should look at what fuels this increasingly prominent part of hip-hop...
...real” hip-hop heads will invariably rush to the standard defense of this bulletproof vested minstrelsy, claiming that these types of battles are an integral part of hip-hop. Rap battles, are indeed one of rap’s longest-standing traditions and I have been in more than a few. Moreover, hip-hop battles are derived from a long tradition of black word games that includes “the Dozens.” What 50 has gotten himself into, however, is not really an authentic version of this tradition...