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woodie is completely retarded, has never once tried to say otherwise, and everything you say is things that he himself admitted to. he's not even a hiphop head like for example me and you. and to a further extent you. he was a member here but for this to be a hiphop site, it has to cater to the respective audience. the problem is that none of the site's owners have time and inclination to make this a #1 hiphop site. every now and again, rukas will use his contacts to pull an exclusive interview, and rahim has actually done a few, but mostly, this site reports what other sites report and none of the newsposters do anything beyond searching the net for news. i'm gonna speak carefully because there can be people i'm forgetting, not thinking about, but if you look at sites like allhiphop and dubcnn you can look at the individual newsposters and actually call them journalists because they have a network of artists and contacts they can hit up, and who put them on mailing and e-mailing lists. why do you think hitemup was so successful? jon, rukas and mostly stephen iirc knew LOTS of people that had intertwined with pac's life line at one point or another. we don't have this today, and therefore we can't attract the real hiphop heads. unless we put a huge banner on the front page with signatures from us all that says "this site has a tight community, but there's quality discussion and real hiphop heads will appreciate the maturity of the musical taste of this site's members" we don't really have a chance to snap up those people who would much rather go to the larger sites where they can have their questions answered and their opinions challenged. take me for example. i'm "moving up" in the hiphop world and have been for a few years now, if i have a question or something i either hit up you or chronic on msn or make a thread here. i normally get my answer from chronic or elsewhere on the net though lol.
being as such, i don't think it's fair to call this a hiphop site. but i'm with you. back in the day it used to be like how you said. people would join (although for the pac shit) and when they started to get to know people they would dare venture into this forum. so i'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, i just don't think it's reality here on streethop.
and imo
that puts woodie in a better light
