Hua Hsu edits the hip-hop section of URB Magazine and writes about music, culture and politics for Slate, the Village Voice, The Wire and various other magazines and weeklies. Hsu hails from California's Bay Area but he currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is seeking a PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.
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All hip-hop is regional: This was the lesson of the early 2000s, as stars… more »
The enduring idea of a hip-hop underground relies on our faith in the ent… more »
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The late '90s was the heyday for a certain kind of purist: values-driven,… more »
Getting dropped from a major label has today become a badge of pride, but… more »
If you passed through a Bay Area record shop in the late '90s, there's a … more »
Interesting things can happen when you're just a few steps away from the … more »
Hip-hop is a culture of self-invention, and there are few examples of sel… more »
As the most visible member of late-'80s legends Ultramagnetic MCs, Kool K… more »
As the most visible member of late-'80s legends Ultramagnetic MCs, Kool K… more »
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They make for laughably easy targets — the make-up, the rudimentary shock… more »
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