We Need a New Hip Hop Mag

[2manyFCKNrappers]

XXL, The Source and RESPECT are all meh. How could a new one be birthed and sustained? What would have to be different about it to get your attention and subscribe?

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Its 2013, hip hop mags are a thing of the past hombre

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Why?

We have The Coli

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

Magazines are still relevant to their respective cultures and niches. It's just the Hip Hop magazine used to be a major conduit for providing it's subscribers with great content....now the pages might as well be printed with colored jizz for all of the dikkriding that takes place. People still read TIME, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, WWD, and everything else under the sun. I feel if Hip Hop had a magazine with a real voice again it would be refreshing to read. There's nothing like holding a magazine in your hands that embodies everything you relate to in your culture.

 

[mortuus est]

i still read the source and xxl, some kool stuff still in there thats not on the net

 

[Money Be Green]

Magazines are . Everybody got the Internet now

 

[Pool_Shark]

The Coli Magazine-Latest in hip-hop, sports, and lifestyle.

 

[weMFR]

"who buys magazines in doubles?"

..

 

[FloorGeneral]

Yeah, Magazines are an antiquated form. Why wait in line at the store, or wait for it to be delivered, when you can get basically the same content with a few mouse clicks? In 2013, Blogs are your Magazines, for better or worse.

 

[definition]

Agree. If magazines aren't already done, they will be eventually.

I grew up with a dream of writing for The Source .... but ended up writing for Elemental, and having to keep a day job.

At some point, writers have to pay the bills or get other jobs. No regrets.

So, a new mag is probably a pipe dream.

 

[Charly Wingate]

Too many outlets for hip-hop reviews.

 

[drugxglory]

Yeah i used to subscribe to xxl in high school, but once i got to finding these hip hop sites i havent read one since.

 

[DaveyDave]

the problem with Magazines is by the time they are printed & in stores the news & reviews are at least a month or 2 old if not more. they're 80% ads these days and articles/interviews never last more than 2 pages if that! one magazine i have to buy again is Wax Poetics but for real it's time these mags step into toe 21st century and just put the entire mag online exactly how it is in the stands. with everyone & they mum owning or having access to an ipad or some kind of tablet i don't know why they don't just transfer it over.

 

[Dead End]

"who buys magazines in doubles?"

..

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Dead End]

I don't think it would necessarily have to provide something the internet does not. There are plenty of music mags left. But, it would have to fill a niche. Both The Source and XXL have long lost their independence and ability to be actually critical of hip-hop. I hate to say this, but Pitchfork is one of the only outlets that plays this role. Despite their pretentiousness, ignorance of the culture, etc.....the attitude they sometimes take reminds me of The Source back in the day. Granted, The Source expressed this through coastal elitism, which was stupid and a major mistake, but at least they took some sort of position. Murder Dog is another magazine, which took crazy positions, but at least took them. We need something like that again.