Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story
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#3The blog era, that was so cool. The most rare stuff you could find, including some background. Now it's usually on YouTube mostly devoid of context and only single tracks.
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#4Only tangentially related, but this documentary is quite good https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2475454/
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#5I'm just going to plug the non-profit whose mission is to archive and teach the history of hip-hop as well as mentor young artists. Until I got involved with them, I didn't realize how much history was being lost to time and neglect. If you grow up in it, you assume it will always be there.
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#6A little off topic but funny enough to mention. Here in France, Skyblog.com is closing its doors in the next days. It was a blog platform ran by the #1 hiphop radio. It's not related to hip hop at all, even the radio only play crappy mainstream rap since 30 years ago, but back in the days, it was an easy way for a lot of teens to have a voice on the Internet. It wasn't deep at all, often really dumb, and it was mocked even in 2000, but 20 years after remains the symbol of an era and there's still some nice joys that came out of it. It was worth archiving for all those reasons and we are glad INA (National Audiovisual Institute) saved all the content.
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#7Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games
A lot of suckers with colorful names
I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that
Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack
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#8Only tangentially related, but this documentary is quite good https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2475454/
I also really loved this documentary miniseries by Canadian artist Shad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-Hop_Evolution
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#9I don’t know if I am right but Twitter’s growth back in 2010-2012 had a huge boost in the datpiff hiphop era. I remember back then that when Twitter’s fail whale crash logo will appear it means that Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Drake or Kendrick dropped a mixtape.
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#10Still missing Adriano Celentano's Prisencolinensinainciusol