"Jabari" Archives

Hip-Hop Roundtable Pt III and IV: Labels, The Internet And The Future

Posted on 10 February 2009 (0)

Part III: “Labels And The Internet” Part IV: “Who’s Hot Coming Up?” I’m a tad late on this, but its important, so I’m going in. Part IV is a quick discussion on who Young Guru, Neef and Young Chris (well, mostly Young Guru) think is coming up and has promise (Wale, Mickey Factz, Charles Hamilton). [...]

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Hip-Hop Roundtable Part 2: Past and Present

Posted on 30 January 2009 (0)

Round 2. Jabari builds on the last discussion with Neef, Chris, 9th and Young Guru, this time talking about the influence hip-hop’s past has on its present.  The view of the participants seems to be that, while many artists tend to emulate the style and fashion of those who came before them – especially in [...]

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Hip-Hop Roundtable Part 1: The Internet

Posted on 28 January 2009 (3)

Jabari over at HipHopGame as convened a roundtable to discuss the future of hip-hop.  Part one, which features Young Chris, 9th Wonder, Young Guru and Neef discusses the influence, both positive and negative, of the internet on hip-hop music.  Since my invite for said roundtable has been obviously caught up with the USPS (registered mail [...]

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