On the crest of October 2009 is the 30th anniversary of arguably the first complete rap record. I say arguably because King Tim III dropped that July  of 1979. Thus it is time for a new Renaissance again. I have no ulterior motive for launching HipHopGods.com other than the fact that I want to see some infrastructure to the form. Hell with the credit , it needed to be done.

  My 18th year of doing college lectures and starting the fall semester at Murray State far to the west near Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois,Indiana and Tennessee, a mostly young audience of collegians of mixed background equally aired their displeasure of raps latest direction. They wanted to know and learn more. There wasn't a place really to get it.

  Upon meeting some of the students a couple passed me their cellphones to talk to their parents. One father asked the typical ' why did you stop? As with a black woman police officer the next morning flying out of Nashville, saying that she was old school rap and that she wanted to support but really couldn't find a place. Not that I am ever bothered personally about the comment but I feel for my peers who may not have had the answers for such questions. These artists are still recording and getting down. Just like the forefathers of rock and roll Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis still are today, one would be Ill informed, shortsighted and naive to think Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five , MC Lyte,  Whodini , Dana Dane and Hammer are not. Not only that but they're still recording and are in diversified areas of the entertainment business.

 Most Americans are lacking proper attention of history and geography. Unfortunately many Americans don't even travel or comprehend the beauty of the states within. It's a big world, period. Hip hop wise it's already been all over the planet intact and strong on the fundamentals and elements. But somebody sitting at the television and radio would never know , waiting for segregated limited programming to inform them. HipHopgods and later HipHopsisters is built to let none of this be in vain.


      As for Public Enemy and myself we have prospered in our own way on the web. 66 tours 65 countries in 22 years. Yes we are still performing and still together. Terminator X and S1Ws James and Roger retired from the group 10 years ago but Brother James is still active behind the scenes. Publicenemy.com was formed in 1998 connecting us to the planet better than any major record label could do . We have released about 7-8 albums since 1999 and will release a TINBOX set come March 2010.

    And a new album through SELLABAND North America is coming. It's a new revenue model to finance recordings. I write as much as I can releasing 2 books over the past 10 years and working on 3 others. My label SLAMjamz has tinkered at the forefront of digital distribution. I have headed up my radio show On The Real on Air America the past 5 years as well as ....Andyoudontstop which will be like the NPR-60minutes' of hip hop and rap culture and music.

    Upon writing this blog there are some ironic tragedies that have taken place almost simultaneously alongside such rap events that have been benchmarks.
R.I. P to the godfather of rap radio Mr Magic who passed away first week of October 09. Just 10 days before founding father of the DJ crew the Xecutioners,  DJ.Roc Raida had passed. It's the more important reason for Hiphopgods to exist. So these artists and contributors won't pass away in vain and into black music obscurity.

    Immediately my closest peers who reside in my iphone like MC Lyte , DMC, Kool Mo Dee, and Kurtis Blow said they were down. From there Krs One, Big Daddy Kane,  and Whodini nodded in approval. The launch is Nov 1, but the plan is to encompass and empower the classic hip hop nation by March 2010. Out of this union challenges on collective health aggrements, royalty and publishing issues ,  name and copyright retrival ,etc will take place. This Supersite Internetwork will boast of the ability to access Twitter and Facebook from the artist home page account. Music and video uploads will be indeed a part of the artists individual programming but also automatically loaded into HHGS radio and Tv for internetwork webplay.


While it may seem cumbersome at first the general simple  fuctionality of it all makes myspace only seem like good for getting the word out about HIPHOPGODs .
Glad that we can get together in this manner. My job and intention here is to put my foot forward in this technology to have the hip hop community get and keep a hold on itself and connect the legacy.

Chuck D

Public Enemy