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PrintThey Bring the Music To Us: Oh Word
News Type: Event — Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:42 PM EDT
Hip hop in its purist form
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This week TBTMTU we take a look at Oh Word a hip hop blog for purists. Claiming that the bloggosphere is saturated with music bloggers all writing about breaking music news, so they chose to focus on hip hop roots. Oh Word does this by reviewing and featuring music from the genre's formative years.
Oh Word is broken into features and reviews, a main blog and a gallery that includes their hip hop comic strip, "Cartoon Capers." While the main blog page of Oh Word focuses on random hip hop tid-bits, it also provides information on the latest goings on of "Internets Celebrities" - a project of Oh Word founders, Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam.
The features and reviews are indeed the best reading on the site with a wide range of pieces by a variety of authors with disparate stylistic differences and preferences. I found Oh Word's system of archiving reviews by release year of the album of great use for those interested in hip hop history. My favorite feature was "Line-by-Line" in which the author would analyze a song line for line, and sometimes even word for word.
Unfortunately the features and reviews - the best part of the website - have not been updated since 2006. It would also be nice to see some more recent hip hop releases included to provide a cross-section of hip hop past and present. While Oh Word boasts it is a blog for hip hop purists, it's lacking content from any current hip hop artists implies that they are simply nostalgic for hip hop's past instead of embracing it's evolution (granted that's kinda what purists do).
If you want a constant and daily dose of news, you definitely won't find that on Oh Word. If, however, you are interested in reading the blog writers waxing poetic about why they love hip hop, reading reviews and deeply analytical features about some of hip hop's greatest albums ever, Oh Word may be the blog for you.
Read more TBTMTU features from Listen In.
Read more music news, reviews and editorials by Kymlee.
Cross posted to Listen In Music.
© Kimberlee Morrison 2008. Some rights reserved.
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{"commentId":2050144,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
I like the idea of a blog for hip hop purists but I'd like to see the concept expanded a little farther.
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#1 - Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:43 PM EDT{"commentId":2062586,"authorDomain":"dsound"}
this is hardly a new concept. plenty of blogs focus on older and harder to find music. awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com is my favorite.
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{"commentId":2063355,"authorDomain":"wonnacottyledon"}
Nice article! I peeped it on the Google Homepage, and after, all I had to say was, um, word. I checked the site, and while they haven't hand a new feature in a while, they definitely have a lot of current album reviews, especially from 2005. I've been sleeping on this site for far too long, thanks for the wake up.
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{"commentId":2062324,"authorDomain":"dolores"}
Very interesting article! I didn't know people were blogging about music so much.
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#2 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:09 PM EDT{"commentId":2062500,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
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It seems to me that blogging about music is the most natural thing. As opposed to print-only media, in a blog, you can talk about a great performer and then provide a link to their music. The reader can follow the link, listen and then come back and discuss immediately.
It reminds me of a line from "Still Rock n Roll To Me' by Billy Joel:
'There's a new band in town
but you can't get the sound
from a story in a magazine
aimed at your average teen.'
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