Hip-hop.net. Social networking, news and blogs for Hip-hop fans worldwide.
Our Mission
To promote the growth and development of an online portal to worldwide Hip-hop culture that enables and encourages individual creative expression; to build a diverse community of dedicated Hip-hop heads who continually refine their common aesthetic of Hip-hop as art via instant feedback from a userbase of thousands.
B-boys.com and Hip-hop.net
In October of 2007, we merged our two hip-hop sites, b-boys.com and hip-hop.net, to create a better experience for our users. Our old-school b-boys forums can still be found at http://www.b-boys.com/forums.
Who we are
B-boys.com/Hip-hop.net is a team of Hip-hop fanatics spread around the globe. Brian, aka
Theory (Seattle,
USA), began work on the original site back in 1998 and continues to determine
our overall direction. Norm aka Compay (Buenos Aires, Argentina) does all
the programming and maintains the servers. Matt aka Kempo (Hampshire, UK) writes our album
reviews and is our UK correspondent. Dave aka Darnit (Seattle, WA) does our design and
layout work.
Our original B-boys.com logo was created in photoshop by hand by our good friend Iosefatu Sua, aka Sion1 who also has designed most of our tshirts.
Our Hip-hop.net logo was designed by FourColorCreative in Seattle using Cooper Black, an original Hip-hop flyer font from the late 70's - early 80's.
Many ideas for this site over the years have come from the members of our forums. There would be no b-boys.com/hip-hop.net without Benjamin Grimm, FroshKiller, Loot, Monk, Richard Corey, and too many others to name here.
We are always looking for writers to contribute articles or interviews for plain old recognition. The site is independantly owned and operated by Brian and Norm and we are not funded or influenced by any company or persons. (Unless you send us free stuff like music and clothing.) If you are a writer, photographer, artist, poet and would like to contribute some of your work or pieces to be featured on our site, please feel free to contact us.
