• 5 Mics Series, Season 1: It Was All A Dream, The Untold Story Of Unsigned Hype

  • By: Breakbeat Media
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5 Mics Series, Season 1: It Was All A Dream, The Untold Story Of Unsigned Hype

By: Breakbeat Media
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  • The 5 Mics podcast series tells the most significant stories in hip-hop culture. Many stories have never been told, and certainly not with the authenticity, accuracy, and attention to detail that only Breakbeat can deliver. Season 1 of the 5 Mics series is undoubtedly a hip-hop classic! The Source magazine was known in the 1990s as the “Bible Of Hip-Hop.” Among its many contributions, the magazine’s “Unsigned Hype” column ranks near the top. Each month, “Unsigned Hype” would feature one artist selected from hundreds of demo tapes that rappers worldwide would send to the magazine’s offices in New York City. The column literally launched the careers of some of the biggest names in hip-hop. Legends like The Notorious B.I.G, Common, Eminem, DMX, Capone-N-Noreaga, Pitbull, and others all got their start by being featured in “Unsigned Hype” before they had a record deal. Season 1 of the 5 Mics series is entitled “It Was All A Dream: The Untold Story of Unsigned Hype,” and it brings hip-hop fans the never-before-heard tales behind the hype, as told by the journalists, MCs, and others who lived it while examining how this little column made big waves in the rap revolution.
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  • 5 Mics, S1 EP1 - It Was All A Dream: The Untold Story of Unsigned Hype

    5 Mics, S1 EP1 - It Was All A Dream: The Untold Story of Unsigned Hype
    Mar 11 2024
    In this brief introductory Episode 1, you will hear for the first time the true story of how The Source was started in 1988 by Dave Mays while he was a college student at Harvard University. As Mays hustled around Boston to land sponsors for his college radio show, “Street Beat,” he kept being turned down. This led to him creating a mailing list of his listeners and a newsletter providing hip-hop news and information to fans across the city. He named the newsletter The Source, which quickly grew from one page into a small magazine, with the help of fellow Harvard students Jon Shecter, Ed Young, and James Bernard.
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    9 mins
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