PLG's Rap Repository

I am a little late getting to this but the New York Times recently did a profile of Brooklyn life by interviewing as many people as they could on one car of the Q during a typical morning commute.

Capsules of the interviewees included at least one PLGer:

By day, Nathaniel Long, born in Ohio, works in the e-commerce industry. By night, he’s a writer who chronicles Brooklyn’s underground hip-hop scene. Since moving to New York about a year and a half ago, Mr. Long, 30, has run HipHopLinguistics.com, his music Web site, out of the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens home he shares with his girlfriend. Mr. Long went to Ohio State University and studied journalism, but “coming out of school, there weren’t even any decent-paying jobs.”

I haven't listened to new hiphop since the Native Tongues era, so I should probably head over to HHL and get myself current.

(Thanks to Jessica)

Comments

[Hip-Hop Linguistics]

Peace. Thank you for the shout out. If you like Native Tongues, you'll love HHL! In the review section, five albums you might want to check out are:

1. The Roots - Rising Down
2. K'naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
3. K-os - Atlantis: Hyms for Disco
4. X-Clan - Return From Mecca
5. Talib Kweli - Eardrum

Those are five albums in the past two years from artists I consider extensions of the Native Tongues movment. PEACE.