Even more exciting than when we spotlight these events, is when deserving hip hop people, places and things that we cover find their way to a more mainstream audience. This happened on the weekend of December 15, 2012 as Hip Hop Karaoke NJ was featured on Spotlight NJ, a News 12 New Jersey program highlighting local goodness.

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Thanks to Nas' 'Life Is Good' album and other NY-area rap artists and events making waves in both underground and mainstream hip hop, many now say New York hip hop is making a comeback. We just want to remind people that we predicted this years ago.

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Birthplace Magazine founder and editor-in-chief Manny Faces delivers the May 9th edition of 'The NY Hip Hop Report' for The Show, a bi-weekly radio program on WBAI-NY (99.5FM, wbai.org).

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