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Aspiring Harvard MCs looking for “massive” exposure will lyrically spar with fellow Cantabrigians this Friday night. The hip-hop department of Harvard’s radio station, WHRB, in conjunction with Massive Records, is hosting its first ever hip-hop battle for students and locals to compete for a cash prize and airtime to showcase the night’s best acts. The record store and WHRB’s “The Darker Side,” say that they hope that the event will bring greater attention to Boston?...
...sins of your own? Can you be both prophet and sinner?Some reject the idea of musical sin altogether—and where there’s no sin, irony can give no absolution. Susan I. Putnins ’08, Jazz Director for the campus radio station WHRB, sees irony as a mask, not a tool. For her, enjoyment is enjoyment, ironic or not.“If you enjoy the song, no matter on what level, then that’s sincerely enjoying it,” she says.The hipster criticality, Putnins believes, is little more than...
...BERNARD L. PARHARM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, Harvard radio was a hip-hop Mecca. This past semester, a handful of students tried to bring back the glory. During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the WHRB hip-hop department—known as “The Dark Side”—hosted “Street Beat,” one of college radio’s seminal rap programs. The show also spawned a campus newsletter by the same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture...
...fast. It’s not necessarily a lack of good material that prevents Harvard students from making it in the rap game. Indeed, two white boys from radio station WHRB understood hip-hop culture so well that they managed to create the longest-running and arguably most influential magazine about the genre and its artists. And in the past five years, two rap crews with Harvard undergraduates have rubbed elbows with the mainstream’s biggest stars, verging on national fame...
Mays and his friend, Jon M. Shecter ’90, hosted a hip-hop show on WHRB during their years at Harvard (a show that was cancelled, but brought back this semester—see story below), and in 1988, they began putting out a newsletter to accompany it—under the title of “Street Beat.” The name was changed, Shecter was fired, and the rest is history...