By Head-Roc
There’s this repetitive Inaccuracy that DC Urban culture and New York Urban culture are Rivals.
The only lane where that is true is when it came to the drug game. Nowhere else.
When it comes to each city’s Black Culture and entertainment – what’s at the core (Grassroots) for each – let me be clear:
Go-Go and Hip-Hop are twin cousins of magical and intense black expression, A continuance of the black resistance movement, anchored in the cities of Washington DC and in New York City.
New York being the financial capital of the US.
Washington DC being the political Capital.
Both cities controlled by a classic American mindset that menaced their black populations economically and politically.
Foundational Hip Hop and foundational Go-Go spoke to those abuses.
At the ONSET we here in DC Hip-Hop recognized that and showed love to our New York and New Jersey and Philadelphia families. Facts.
Like the great Rakim said, it ain’t where you’re from it’s where you’re at. I don’t remember any New York cats acting all crazy on us as DC hip-hop cats. Once they heard us show and prove, that was it. We became family, immediately!
I Remember New York cats loving us and US loving them. Us staying at their people’s houses when we went to NYC to Showcase DC hip-hop through all those goddamn talent showcases we used to do back in the day. LOL!
That’s why there are so many of those folks included in DC hip-hop! You don’t have DC hip-hop without cats from these regions being a part of the foundations of it.
Enough with the Bullshit.
Grassroots knows the truth and has the answers to the questions.
Not the radio DJs and not these nonprofits. Stop going to them to answer questions about the history of DC Hip Hop. They didn’t do anything to support it. They were in a position to play our music and they did not play it. They could not play it. They were controlled by program directors who were devaluing DC culture.
S***, only in recent years that they started playing Go-Go on the radio in a steady rotation. That should tell you everything.
What these non-profits of Hip-Hop are doing is even worse. Executive Directors living and eating well, cause they ain’t putting no REAL money in the grassroots resources their grant applications refer to as the target of their Benevolence and Advocacy.
But I digress…
DC Hip Hop and Go-Go…
Don’t forget what you already know, have lived through, and who WE are!
Head-Roc is DC Native and DMV proud father, son, brother, and Black Lover. Every now and then he is referred to as the “Mayor of DC Hip-Hop”, but rather prefers…
Pharaoh of the Potomac River Valley MC’s
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