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We got excited back when the acceptance letter came in. We were again enthused when Alex decided to come to MIT. Just recently we watched the daily strip as MIT made some of the first appearances, even if it was only on the phone. Today, after a week at MIT only in the dorm room, we actually get to go outside. The tour of the Cambridge campus features the Stata Center – or as...
Although you wouldn't know it from listening to local commercial radio, Boston has a thriving little hip-hop scene. Although we can't claim many big-time national stars (basically, Gang Starr, and they moved to Brooklyn before making it big), we have some locals doing good stuff: Brighton's Mr. Lif, along with collaborators Akrobatik and Fakts-One, is fast becoming a darling of nationwide indy hip hop radio; Ed O.G. (he of 1991 nationwide radio hit "I Got to Have It") is doing good stuff with his new group, Special Teamz (based on what Bostonist has heard on WERS); and our city is even the home of UnderGroundHipHop.com, the leading clearinghouse on ye olde internette for independent hip hop. The City of Cambridge, perhaps sensing that this rap music the kids are listening to may be the wave of the future, wants to make sure that the next generation of Boston-area MCs and DJs reps for the 02138: How else to explain these ads on craigslist, seeking instructors in freestyling and DJing for Cambridge Youth Programs?