Stricklee Hip Hop Artist Promo & Mp3 Pool

Jermaine Dupri was off base when he said the DJ is dead.

In Hip-Hop, the DJ will never die.

The DJ is one of the pillars on which Hip-Hop was built, even coming before the MC. The DJ is as essential to rap as the guitar is to rock, as brass & woodwinds are to jazz. That role could never be filled by technological advances. And of course, bloggers will never show up @ the local club to spin records & provide commentary along with each track. Hell, bloggers generally don’t leave the house, do they?

But there was a time when the music played by Clue, Kay Slay, Drama, and other top tier DJs would be the “hot” song or sound for the coming weeks & months. If Flex dropped bombs over it, it was official. If Kay Slay brought it back two or three times & dropped one of his signature catchphrases, it was official. No questions asked. Even if it was new & you weren’t in tune with it, you listened to it several times to get your ass in tune, especially for those of us who breathe the music & not just listen to it.

When you think of Web 2.0 and relate it to where you receive your doses of what’s next, where do you go to get those songs & to whose suggestions do you listen? With the overwhelming amount of crap material out there, who do you look to for help sifting through it? When you want an unfiltered, non-payola opinion on an album or artist, who do you turn to?
Bloggers.

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