The online publication will continue to host an area-wide hip-hop event calendar, listing concerts, independent shows, seminars, art shows and more.

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New York hip-hop is back! Well, no. It never left! And since NO ONE knows New York hip-hop like us, here's a rundown of the best of new New York rap that you really don't want to miss.

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Homeboy Sandman takes a bus ride down memory lane in "Bus (A Rhyme)," a vintage, intimate look at one of New York's transit tapestries.

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Hot 97's treatment of Cipha Sounds smells like hip hop ageism, disloyalty and disrespect. For them, it's nothing new.

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Weeks before Public Enemy frontman Chuck D ignited a war of Twitter words by criticizing Hot 97, the FCC received a document that could potentially knock them off the air. Here is what Hot 97 had to say in response, and why it might not be good enough to save them.

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We've partnered with the burgeoning Brooklyn-based T.H.E.M. Recordings, home to Innocent?, Mic Handz and others, to give YOU a fresh 'New York Hip Hop Renaissance' T-shirt.

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It shouldn't be such a surprise that an event like the Homeboy Sandman & Friends concert at Gramercy Theatre would be so successful. It is indicative of a huge, under-served but passionate fanbase that is itching to be included in rap's reindeer games.

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Speaking on The NY Hip Hop Report radio show, Saigon touched on a variety of topics, including the next installment of his Greatest Story Never Told album series, to be largely produced by DJ Premier.

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In its long fight against demolition, the iconic aerosol arts center 5 Pointz had passion, the community, the law, some key supporters and morality on their side. What they didn't have, was the support of hip hop media.

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