Try @verysmartbrothasYeah it's fukked up.
Haven't posted at length in this thread, but over the past two years I've been freelancing, writing about Hip-Hop, and it's a tough path. For me in particular I see how fukked up the game is, especially because I try to frame my articles in a larger social context. I'm not interested in writing about superficial topics, which most clickbait Hip-Hop journalism has become. The thing is, there's no market for a writer to actually make a living otherwise.
Like for instance I'm writing a piece about these dudes dancing on tables and how it beckons back to Minstrelsy, but I know most of these outlets would see the word Minstrelsy alone and ignore me off GP. That's a rabbithole most of these editors are unwilling to touch or are in denial about.
And the thing is, I don't want to be on those major sites for so many of the reasons listed in this thread, and I don't pitch to them, but then it's like, how do you get your shyt out there? It's like you have to be content with the moral victory of knowing you spoke the truth and maybe someone will read it. I read old Source magazines, and it's like night and day to today's content.
Luckily, the couple places I write at the most, the (white) owners/staff are "woke" enough to let me speak my piece on most issues (I wouldn't write for them otherwise) but there's always going to be a difference if it's not your own space. There's always gonna be certain lines you write or points you try to raise that will become a point of contention with an editor. There's always gonna be moments where editors don't understand why I reference a concept from a book just to get people to possibly pick it up.
I feel like Hip-Hop has all eyes on it, and a lot of the deepest issues in our community can be explained in the context of the Hip-Hop industry. That type of writing will go over better as far as reaching the youth IMO...but the thing is there is just such a small lane for it...never mind a lucrative one.
It's just another tenuous situation for Black people in America. I have my own Blog for artists of color, and I want to eventually find like-minded people to start a real outlet with (not just some "blog"), but it feels like a distant possibility for now.
How many black people work for Vice/Noisey/Complex/SPIN/Rolling Stone? (UPDATE :BUZZFEED included)
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The Amerikkkan Idol
The Amerikkkan Nightmare
I don't have to physically be there to send food and scholarships
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You don't have to physically go to Detroit to send food and scholarships, nikka
Next time instead of talking shyt about source and vibe (it probably started off with cacs pretending to be black hating it, same cacs 
over complex) support the next black e-mag.
Thisis50 at one point was providing a lot of material, haven't really heard them with any exclusives as of late. Is it safe to say that mags such as complex just do things better and more organised?
over complex) support the next black e-mag. Thisis50 at one point was providing a lot of material, haven't really heard them with any exclusives as of late. Is it safe to say that mags such as complex just do things better and more organised?
Next time instead of talking shyt about source and vibe (it probably started off with cacs pretending to be black hating it, same cacs
Thisis50 at one point was providing a lot of material, haven't really heard them with any exclusives as of late. Is it safe to say that mags such as complex just do things better and more organised?
Complex basically steals news from popular forums like KTT and pass it off as exclusive info.
Prince Mongo
Banned
Gtfoh fakkit ass, sensitive bytch ass white boy. Hip hop is black music, its not meant for you or any other cracker to listen too. Nobody fukking cares about being racist to white people anyway. Get the fukk off this site you sensitive bytchIf this isn't racist idk what is
TransJenner
Banned
Prince Mongo
Banned
Lame sissy ass motherfukker you can't say shyt back so you just posted those smileys as if they meant shytI ain't white but
TransJenner
Banned
Tell em why you mad
ScoopNScore
8man
I'ma start using "hipster racism" in more of my convos 
Pretty much what this thread should boil down to.
Pretty much what this thread should boil down to.
SleezyBigSlim
Banned
I just wanted to jump in here and say this shut is fucced up. Someone posted a Byron Allen interview in the Locker Room and he was talking about this exact same thing, how us black fold don't own ANY MEDIA OR ADVERTISING AND ALL THESE WHITE FOLD GETI NH PAID OFF US BECAUSE WE ALLOW IT! Black people in gene are cool as shyt and other races and ethnicities take interest in our lifestyle from a spectator point of view.
JerseyBoy23
Veteran
Didn't want to give it it's own thread but thought this interesting. Now we got Verizon and Hearst buying into Complex, which means they may never improve on their number of black writers.
Verizon and Hearst Team Up to Buy Complex Media
Verizon and Hearst Team Up to Buy Complex Media
