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Beat-Down Newspaper

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Beat-Down Newspaper
TypeNewspaper
FormatTabloid
Founder(s)Haji Akhigbade, Sacha Jenkins
PublisherBeat-Down Publications
EditorHaji Akhigbade
Founded1991
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersQueens, New York City
CountryUnited States
ISSN74470-83213
Websitehttps://Beat-DownNewspaper.com

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Launched in 1991, Beat-Down Newspaper holds the distinction as the first Hip Hop publication started in New York City by Queens natives Haji Akhigbade and Sacha Jenkins. The paper seriously covered Hip-Hop Culture, Rap Music, Graffiti and Graffiti subculture, art, film, fashion and Socio-Political issues affecting youth. Beat-Down Newspaper helped lay the foundation for gritty authentic Hip-Hop culture media, music, and art at the apex of the 1986-1994 Golden Era of Hip-Hop.

Beat-Down’s 1991 debut was a pivotal year in Hip-Hop Culture when the Rap Music that spawned from Hip-Hop Culture was becoming more commercially corporate focused and not fully represented by Rap Fanzines and other Hip-Hop & Rap music publications at the time. With its unmatched balanced gritty coverage of Hip-Hop culture as a whole, the independently owned and funded Beat-Down Newspaper stood apart from heavily funded rap music fanzines and rap music magazines at the time like The Source which was launched out of Boston, Massachusetts by Harvard grads David Mays and Jonathan_Shecter, Rappages which was launched a year prior by Hustler Magazines Larry Flynt, and Vibe which launched two years later by media juggernaut Time Inc. with the assistance of Quincy Jones. Beat-Down Newspaper would be the first independently owned, distributed, self-funded, and operated Hip-Hop publication co-founded by Akhigbade who was a recognized producer, creator, and practitioner of Hip-Hop Culture and its core elements.

Covers[edit]

Cover Year Featured
Cypress Hill 1991 Cypress Hill, Ultramagnetic MC's, Tupac, Audio Two, Graffiti Artist Lee Quiñones
House Of Pain, Erick_Sermon of EPMD 1992 Malcolm X Review, Crazy Legs, Jazzy Joyce, DJ Stretch Armstrong, Divine Styler
Gangstarr 1992 Guru, Showbiz & AG, Greg Osby, Afrika Bambaata, Jamal Ski, Trevor Sparks, Mad Cobra, Grand Puba, Funkmaster Flex
Fat Joe 1993 Fat Joe, Easy Lee, Umar Bin Hassan, Ultramagnetic MC's, Inner Circle, Knuckleheadz
Brand Nubian 1993 Brand Nubian, Positive K, Brooklyn Bombers, YZ, Onyx, Bobby Konders, Kool G. Rap, DJ Silver D
Big Daddy Kane 1993 Big Daddy Kane, Boss, The Dream Warriors, The Beatnuts, Blacka Ranks, Kris Kringle, DJ E Smooth, Graf artist Cope2, Cedella Marley, Digable Planets, DJ Enuff
De La Soul 1993 De La Soul, Tragedy Khadafi, DJ Mister Cee, Roy Ayers
Wu Tang Clan 1993 Wu Tang Clan, Graffiti artist Seen_(artist), Burro Banton, DJ Stretch Armstrong
Cypress Hill 1993 Nike,_Inc Ad, Kurious Jorge, Funkdoobiest, Graffiti artist Spin, Rock Steady DJ's
Masta Ace 1993 Masta Ace, Run DMC, Bobbito Garcia, Cedella Marley
KRS One 1993 KRS One, Buju Banton, DJ Rob Swift, Spearhead X, Leshaun, MC_Lyte, Buju Banton
Masta_Killa of Wu-Tang_Clan 1993 A Tribe Called Quest, Airbrush Artist FLOYD, Red Fox, Sanyika Shakur, LA Gangs, The Boom Poetic
Pete Rock & CL Smooth, MC Breed, Ill and Al Scratch 1994 1st Nike,_Inc Ad, Mic Geronimo, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Ill & Al Scratch, MC Breed, Diana King, Aaliyah, R. Kelly
Jackin 4 Beats - Hip-Hop Music Bootleggers Get Raided 1994 Nas, Freddie Fox, Conscious Daughters, Black Moon, Doug E. Fresh
Gil Scott Heron, Red Alert, Mic Geronimo 1994 DJ Red Alert,Dj Brucie B, Chicago's Graffiti Scene, Diana King
End Of A Golden Era Of Hip-Hop 1994 Zulu Nation, Ice Cube, Rythm Rocker, Das Efx, Jamal Ski, Mona Scott
Eazy E 1994 Eazy E, Fugees, Fishbone, Sinbad_(comedian), Rowdy Records

Editorials[edit]

Notable Contributors[edit]

Contributors[edit]

Photographers[edit]

  • Lisa Leone
  • David Morales
  • Henry_Chalfant
  • Sue Kwon
  • David Perez
  • Haji Akhigbade
  • Anthony Vinson
  • Max Glazier
  • Brue

Artists[edit]

External links[edit]

See also[edit]

News & Blog Sites

Magazines

Documentaries

Movies

  • Hitz - Paramount Pictures[23]

Music Albums

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Bobbito Garcia
  2. ↑ Combat Jack
  3. ↑ Dream hampton
  4. ↑ DJ Spooky
  5. ↑ VP Records
  6. ↑ Bobbito Garcia
  7. ↑ DJ Stretch Armstrong
  8. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1516023/
  9. ↑ Combat Jack
  10. ↑ Elliott Wilson (journalist)
  11. ↑ http://www.complex.com/author/noah-callahan-bever
  12. ↑ Mass Appeal (media)
  13. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soren_Baker
  14. ↑ DJ Spooky
  15. ↑ Dream hampton
  16. ↑ Vikki Tobak
  17. ↑ http://www.complex.com/author/noah-callahan-bever
  18. ↑ Mass Appeal (media)
  19. ↑ Seen (artist)
  20. ↑ Cope2
  21. ↑ Billboard
  22. ↑ Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
  23. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118340/
  24. ↑ Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)


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