Rhyme out of joint

1996

On October 8, the Rhyme Sayers' Beyond, Slug, and Stress appear on National Public Radio's All Things Considered as torchbearers for "positive" hip hop. They are described as striving to "reclaim hip hop from the corporate rappers and record labels that, [Beyond] says, have stolen it away." In the piece, Slug exhorts rappers to come to the Twin Cities, "because we'd like to battle some real MCs."

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