HipHopSite.com, OG online news source and retailer, has re-launched without it’s retail operations. They give an overview of their history and their dismal perspective of indie rap sales. Nice to see them giving a shout to former adversaries, including still-in-action Sandbox Automatic (full disclosure: Prior to the great expunge of their vinyl inventory, I was employed at Sandbox; you can probably blame me for a lot of messed up orders – hi Smiley!). Read their relaunch announcement and if you’re interested you can try to join their operation as an unpaid intern.
So here we are in our fourteenth year of business (well, let’s instead say “existence”) and I’m hyped to be typing this out to you. That being said, all due respect to those still running things in the indie retail world – UGHH.Com, Turntable Lab, Sandbox Automatic – more power to you, fellas. For us however, I feel that now we have reached an age where we can actually pursue the original intent of what HipHopSite.com was meant to be – a full fledged news and information source for hip-hop music. With the new site, we’ve got thirteen years of archived content, with over 1100+ professionally written album reviews and 250+ interviews dating back to 1995, available for you to read, right here, right now – with some of this content being offline for two years.
We’re going to be making changes and additions to the site over the next few months until we slide into a comfortable groove of what exactly we want the latest version of the site to be and how it will take form. That being said, we are looking for freelance (emphasis on the word “free”, kek) contributors that wish to write or provide content to the site.
