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The Reality From out West

Hiphopdx vs the world (wide web)


June 19, 2007 | Tags: Hip Hop, reviews, Dope, whack, Internet, Sites, Hiphopdx.com

                So I was reading a Meka Soul blog the other day and I seen someone in the comments say that allhiphop.com changed their site up, and Hiphopdx needs to step there game up. I don’t remember who said it, I just know it wasn’t some fan boy/Stan type commenter; it was someone who makes good comments. Truthfully, I wasn’t bothered by the comment. If I said I only checked Hiphopdx every day, I’d be a liar, however, to me, Hiphopdx reigns supreme over the other internet hip hop sites.



                With the death of the hip hop magazines…..wait, you didn’t know them shits were dead? Yea, since the whole Source vs. Interscope beef, the Source has sucked ass. I hoped things would change after the oust of Benzino and Dave Mays, but no luck with that. Now they’re just a 150 page section of adds with an occasional hip hop reference thrown in for flavor. XXL on the other hand, to gain support of Stans everywhere during the whole Source beef thing, hopped on Interscope’s balls. Add in the fact Elliot Wilson is talking shit to bloggers online (lol, faggot) and XXL is done. Where are hip hop fans to turn?  With the decreasing prices of computers and high speed internet, the obvious choice is the net, but what site? Well, to me, there are only 4 sites worth mentioning, Allhiphop.com, Hiphopdx.com, hiphopgame.com, and Sohh.com.  Each site has its pros and cons, let’s go over them.



                Allhiphop.com is probably the first site I really fucked with. While the setup wasn’t beautiful, it worked. I could see the news on the side, all the sections of the site were aligned up top, and info from most of the sections was preview-able under the news and major story section. The media section could be accessed by scrolling to the bottom of the page. Ill seed’s rumor section often brings you info that lands in the news section weeks later. Allhiphop.com get’s news faster overall. All of this is cool. To me, allhiphop.com is like the modern day San Antonio Spurs, they have the basics and fundamentals down, but they do nothing amazing and are not entertaining. I was told by an insider that allhiphop gets their news first because its main office is located in New York. As for the new look? It gives the site an updated look, but everything seems thrown everywhere now. It looks as if the Spurs attempted to go Golden State Warrior on us. The reviews section now rates albums by ten small bars, which is cool because it goes 1-10 (which I always say is better than 1-5, although with hip hop, we’ve always gone 1-5 based off the OG 5 mic rating), but the look of it…I don’t know, I’m just not feeling it personally. Also, the Allhiphop reviews everything and nothing at the same time. Since the site reviews damn near everything (books, concerts, albums, video games, DVDs and film) they often miss rap albums that have been released.



                Now off to Sohh.com.  See, I was gonna go in alphabetical order and bring HipHopdx last, cuz I believe as DJ Khalid would say “We the Best”, but I got love for Sohh.com, cuz that’s how I got here. In all reality though, I only fuck with Sohh.com for one reason, SOHH Left Coast (I’ll go into details on SOHH Left Coast 2morrow). SOHH has bloggers too, but they’re assigned to cover certain things. They have a blogger for the west coast, New York, Atlanta, Latins, R&B, videos, and the south (which I know is odd because they have a blogger for the south and Atlanta, originally the blogger for the south was for Houston, but I guess he ran outta Houston shit to talk about, so he asked to cover the whole south with the exception of Atlanta) Now for the problems. From what I’ve saw, with the exception of SOHH Left Coast, the bloggers all suck. I know they’re just bloggers and not journalist, but when the NYC blogger does like 5 blogs on the Tru Life/Dip Set beef, and none on El-P “I’ll Sleep When Your Dead” (Sohh left coast did a blog on it, cuz he knew SOHH NY wouldn’t and he thought It was such a dope album someone had to speak on it). The video blogger that I seen (they got a new one) was an idiot who just said shit to get attention. Both of the Southern bloggers do nothing but pump stereotypical southern garbage and don’t bring anything new or dope to the table. SOHH has no review section, they’re media section is ass, their news is slow, and they don’t show any love to underground shit. I could say more negative shit, but I won’t, check back 2morrow for the positive of SOHH.com.



                Hiphopgame.com……this site is definitely last year’s Golden State Warriors. One night Baron Davis will bang on Ak-47, another night they’ll miss like 25 of 30 wide open 3 pointers.  This site has some real good shit on it sometimes for the real heads, but you have to search through everything to find it. I wish I could go into more positives but….I can’t. Everything is thrown all over the place. The review section….the last thing they reviewed was the Roots “Game Theory”. Truthfully the only reason I even mentioned this site is because they get mentioned by so many people (I don’t really know why) and because they do show love to the underground.



                So why is HipHopdx the best? Balance, plain and simple. For the other sites, I brought the positives first, then the negatives, this time around, I’m gonna flip it and bring what’s looked at as the negatives first. A lot of people diss a lot of the articles on this site.  “They interviewed Lil Mama”, “Why the hell they wasting time interviewing MIMS?” “Don’t nobody give a shit about Noreaga anymore,” Hip Hop is diverse, and Hiphopdx seems to understand that. They bring you everything, from Sage Francis to Lil Mama. They’re at all the hot spots, from Kanye’s Birthday party to The Paid Dues Festival. While I sometimes get upset that I look to the page and see interviews with someone I think is garbage, the reality is, hip hop isn’t just what YOU want it to be. Hip Hop is KRS, Kanye, Wu Tang, WC, Ying Yang twins, Lil Jon, Outkast, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Atmosphere, Saigon, Talib Kweli, and Pastor Troy. Whether you think the artists bullshits or not, brings realness or not, is lyrically dope or not, doesn’t stop him from being Hip Hop.  HipHopdx understands there’s someone fucks with an artist, so they cover them. Another thing DX catches flak for is the reviews. I seen heard the praise the Canibus album was getting in the blog section, so when I seen the review for it, I checked it out. The reviewer gave the album a 2 and a half out of 5. I then saw the same people who praised the album in the blog section leave comments stating they were highly upset, and that the review was bullshit. This wasn’t the first time I seen reviews here catch flak either, so I assume a lot of people aren’t happy with the review section.  This is the thing with reviews though; reviews are done by a reviewer. There’s no almighty board that does reviews. You have to look at the reviewer. I’ve agreed with all the J-23 reviews I’ve seen (not even knowing who they were done by originally, more on that later). When he said a CD was trash, I thought it was trash. When he said a CD was dope, I thought it was dope. Reviewers are normal people, and there’s no perfect way to judge in album. It doesn’t always come down to, is the album good or bad, and is the reviewer smart or an idiot. Sometimes (most times) it comes down to what the reviewer expects from a good album, and what you expect from a good album. With that being said…who has better reviews than Hiphopdx….exactly, nobody. In the end what really makes Hiphopdx is the people.  A lot of them actually give a shit about hip hop. It’s not just a job. You can see comments from the people behind Hiphopdx on the blog sections, in the message boards, everywhere. I met J-23 at Paid Dues Festival, and was telling him how I liked the review section, not knowing the reviews I liked were all his. We talked about all sorts of hip hop related shit (most of which I ended up writing blogs about). A lot of the people here care about music, just like I do, which is why I check this page the most, and why I took the opportunity I was given to write here.



                Before anyone gets the idea to say some shit like “You’re just defending this page because they sign your checks” let me put you up on something. Your only half right, while I am defending Hiphopdx against the complaints they receive, I’m not doing it because they pay me, because in all actuality, they don’t.  I take time out of my busy schedule of chasing the almighty dollar, chilling and talking to my girl, chilling with my family, listening to music, school, working out, fighting worldwide cooning, promoting hybrids and caring for the environment, searching for ways to improve the community I was raised in, educating the yougins in my fam, talking sports in the sports bars of Long Beach,eating chinese food, pirating shit (I’m just kidding…or am I?), rigging electronic devices to do things there not supposed to do, watching sportscenter, smoking and drinking, playing video games, and chilling with all my other peoples to write the shit I write, and I don’t do it for a check. I’m defending Hiphopdx for the same reason I write on new west coast music every Friday, the same reason my first like 5 or 6 blogs have Murs references, because I feel its dope. If anybody else feels another site is better, that’s cool, say what you feel, I won’t get upset, but this is what I think.



               



 



 


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