The Source/XXL etc Appreciation Thread!

[get these nets]

June 13, 2024

dream hampton on Capturing the Early Days of Hip-Hop

The journalist and filmmaker reflects on her visual memoir, ‘It Was All a Dream.’

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[BuckFilly]

I still got a few Rubbermaid totes filled with my old magazines. Only time I touch them is when I move

It really used to blow me when I us subscriptions and them bytches would hit the newsstands before my mailbox

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

My new home library/studio is coming along. I got one more trips to make to storage and get the important mags to go on the shelf. Vibe, source, XXL, scratch, slam, wax poetics, rap pages, elemental, and other mags many aren't aware of like murder dog, rap sheet, insomniac, beat down, xlr8r, etc.. And those are just the hip hop. I got about 70 issues of the source left in storage. I stopped buying them around 2008 because hip hop was in a place that I didn't give a fukk about anymore. Add in that 6 or 7 of 12 XXL covers each year started featuring Interscope artists. Em and 50 would get 1 a piece per year and they'd spread it around to mostly interscope artists. My only problem is that I've got to pay someone to bag them up for me because I simply don't want to do it. And this dates back 30+ years of rare magazines, including the likes of Fresh, Yo, and Word up, etc..

 

[ClemenzaSupreme]

Man I bought every issue of the Source from Oct 96 w/ Snoop on the cover until June or July 2003 I think it was a Terror Squad cover. Then I fully switched to XXL. I wish I kept all of them. I used to cut out the pic and put them up on my wall