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Cambridge And The Source Of Hip-Hop

BINJ · Aug 6, 2025 · published to YouTube

A discussion with the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive about the little-known history of how the iconic hip-hop publication The Source started in Cambridge In taking on the task of selecting great moments from the history of Cambridge publishing to highlight in our programming at the KiOSK in Harvard Square this summer, we started with some obvious required picks like The Real Paper and The Phoenix. But in addition to the storied alternative press, we also featured publications that are less well known for their connection to the area—including the early and iconic rap industry news sheet The Source. In order to help revisit that often overlooked past, we asked Pacey Foster, Ph.D. of the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive at UMass Boston to speak at the KiOSK in June. Since its launch in 2016, the archive “has become one of the largest regional hip-hop archives in the world and has partnered w

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