The good folks at HipHopForever featured your boy AWKWORD in a recent post entitled "Awkword – 'See The Light' Album (World View Revolution)", showcasing my upcoming project, amongst other dopeness. Special thanks!
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About HipHopForever
(As written at realhiphopforever.com.)
This is a community of real hip hop heads from all walks of life who come together to represent the hip hop culture and all that is represented by this term, to share our passion for hip hop, and to make others more aware of underground hip hop, real hip hop and good music.
Most people here listen to underground, golden age, and old school hip hop, among other forms of great music, and see hip hop as both a representation of the society around them and a vehicle for social change. Our goal is not to wipe out mainstream rap music, but rather to balance the airwaves and make people more aware of the great hip hop artists that get little to no attention. We demand that underground emcees, conscious emcees, lyricists, experimental hip hop artists, etc., get the same amount of airplay as their (currently) more popular counterparts.
This movement began in early 2007 when DJ Just One, a DJ from Bronx, New York opened our YouTube group and began inviting members. From here we rapidly grew in numbers and started expanding our operation. We started by opening a MySpace page, a Facebook group, and eventually our first website. It was apparent at this point that RHHF was more than a social network; we were a movement.
It quickly became apparent that a large group of our founding members, who had once felt a responsibility solely to advance hip hop, began realizing a goal that was much more grand in scale: promotion of the civic responsibility of hip hop as a vehicle for social revolution.
As many of our members grew more aware of this goal, they began to form opinions on topics such as politics, economics, etc., and eventually a libertarian socialist (anarchist) ideology became dominant amongst our founders. This would explain the structure of our site.
RHHF is a collectively-managed social network and movement that operates on an entirely democratic basis and maintains the goal of bringing light to aspects of hip hop culture and music that are otherwise shunned in the mainstream culture around the world. We represent hip hop as a vehicle of social change and hold to anarchist principles (though we do not require members to become anarchists) as a platform for change within hip hop, business, and eventually society as a whole.
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