5 Mics Series, Season 1: It Was All A Dream, The Untold Story Of Unsigned Hype

The 5 Mics podcast series tells the most significant stories in hip-hop culture. Many stories have never been told, and certainly not with the authenticity, accuracy, and attention to detail that only Breakbeat can deliver. Season 1 of the 5 Mics series is undoubtedly a hip-hop classic! The Source magazine was known in the 1990s as the “Bible Of Hip-Hop.” Among its many contributions, the magazine’s “Unsigned Hype” column ranks near the top. Each month, “Unsigned Hype” would feature one artist selected from hundreds of demo tapes that rappers worldwide would send to the magazine’s offices in New York City. The column literally launc...

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1. 5 Mics, S1 EP1 - It Was All A Dream: The Untold Story of Unsigned Hype

   11 Mar 2024

   In this brief introductory Episode 1, you will hear for the first time the true story of how The Source was started in 1988 by Dave Mays while he was a college student at Harvard U…

   9 min ▶