Posts Tagged ‘Birthplace Magazine

Birthplace Magazine was invited to cover the 10th anniversary of L’Original Festival, a huge, multi-day hip hop festival in Lyon, France. Editor in Chief Manny Faces traveled to Lyon to witness the festival first hand, and, despite a 6-hour time difference, managed to host episode 047 of The NY Hip Hop Report live from his [...]

LISTEN TO THE FULL SHOW HERE: Listen to internet radio with The NY Hip Hop Report on BlogTalkRadio Hip hop’s legendary smooth operator Big Daddy Kane joins The NY Hip Hop Report on the Sunday, March 10, 2013 episode. In the interview, Kane speaks on his career, hip hop in 2013, the NY rap scene [...]

The diversity of New York hip hop is what continues to make our City the Mecca of the music and culture. Tonight, show hosts Manny Faces and Steve Ortiz of Birthplace Magazine engaged in talk regarding the variety of artists and styles, highlighting some recent songs, videos events and projects that celebrate the vast landscape [...]

Mayhem Lauren and Pitchfork. A$AP Rocky and Spin. Chief Keef and Pitchfork. B.Dot and Spin… The recent backlash against media coverage of hip hop, particularly by some of the aforementioned participants in hip hop, caught the eyes and ears of Birthplace Magazine editor-in-chief and show host Manny Faces, who penned an editorial on the matter, [...]

For our first episode of 2013, hosts Manny Faces and Steven Ortiz of Birthplace Magazine spoke on several topics of the moment, including a recent article featuring Nas on CNN, recent music by rap veterans such as LL Cool J and N.O.R.E., brought up some recent posts from BirthplaceMag.com, including new music from Papoose, Jean [...]

For the 33rd episode of The NY Hip Hop Report, we took a look back at the New York hip hop scene over the past 12 months, as well as a look ahead at what 2013 might bring to the hip hop music and culture table, both regionally as well as on the national level. [...]

Closing in on the end of the year, The NY Hip Hop Report spoke on a few things in the NY hip hop scene we’re happy for this holiday season. Not a “year-end” show per se (that’ll happen on the next episode), but certainly a recap of some of the year’s highlights. We didn’t quite [...]

NY hip hop radio, particularly the giant commercial behemoth Hot 97, was the topic of much talk among NY hip hoppers, recently regarding the perceived lack of support for NY artists. The reaction by the public, and by the station were interesting, and help demonstrate the complexity of the New York hip hop landscape. The [...]

We don’t have many guests on The NY Hip Hop Report. It’s talk radio. We exist to fill in a different vibe. There are plenty of shows, great shows, that have guests on all the time, mainly online, due to the non-indie-friendly atmosphere of commercial radio, with the exception of some college and community stations. [...]

With our previous episode consisting of a great discussion with callers about the state of NY rap, we thought we had the issue pretty much covered, until Complex Magazine decided to suggest that NY rap “has sucked since Dipset broke up.” Of course, we took issue with that statement on several levels, and thought it [...]


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