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GOLDEN ERA

Interviews with Artists at the Online Hip Hop Awards

BY SOUNNI DE FONTENAY & ALEXANDRA CASTILLO

==> Interviews with Artists at the Online Hip Hop Awards - by Sounni de Fontenay & Alexandra Castillo

KILLAH PRIEST
"We are moving into the cyber age and that's
basically what I will be rhyming about sometimes."
HELTAH SKELTAH
"we need it and ain't no other way around
it because what's getting ready to go down might be
our last means of communicating with our peoples"
MILLION
"A lot of commercialized stuff is out right
now but we're still keeping it on the street"
DUTCH
"See rap music is soul music and what people forgot
is that before soul music, I mean rap music, you had
reggae, R&B, you had all that jazz and gospel"
STORM & PRIEST
"we try to live spiritual and try to manifest how
we live through our hearts and hope people can
feel it and we specialize in improv - freestyle"
CANIBUS
"the Internet gives me the freedom to display
my music, display concepts that I got."
RZA
"it's not like the same feeling of
knowing a nigga is going to the store for you."

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This story circulated on the newsgroups rec.music.hip-hop and alt.rap and reached the archive on April 8, 1999. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. The post did not credit a source; this story is preserved as it reached the newsgroup.