Time for Hip Hop to get back to it's Underground Roots
2007 was the year that the gloss, floss, and "status of a boss" image that made rap music so commercially successful in the early 1990s stopped impressing people so much. Suddenly, rap artists were forced to create real art -- or just hustle, hard -- to be heard... an interesting read about the last year in hip hop and the opportunity for artists to return to a place of integrity w/ their work ...
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