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...scene,” he says. “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...
...while the magazine exploded beyond Harvard’s gates, none of the groups made it big. The problem might have less to do with Harvard than it does with Boston, as a whole. Intellectual MCs and DJs sell out the coffee houses, while gritty rhymes about violence and street life fall flat; artistic purity is coveted, making money is secondary...
...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...
Mays is the exception. Harvard has yet to produce anyone else of comparable weight in the mainstream rap world, much less any famous MCs or DJs. But the music world is changing, and people in the know say the future looks good for Harvard artists armed with little more than mics, laptops, and strong work ethics...
Shiftee wowed the crowd with turntable acrobatics while MCs J-Ring and Normal stomp-hopped across the stage, shout-rapping over the bouncing heads of their buzzed fans. Nothing’s fair though, and Landing only got a change to play a few songs before the bill moved...