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The online publication will continue to host an area-wide hip-hop event calendar, listing concerts, independent shows, seminars, art shows and more.<\/h2>\n
For nearly ten years, Birthplace Magazine<\/em> has been covering New York City\u2019s hip-hop music and culture scene, launching during a time when most major outlets and bloggers had begun to shun the city in favor of covering regions that were exporting a different style of rap music.<\/p>\n \u201cThe industry was chasing ringtone rap and embedding themselves in the strip-club economy in places like Houston and Atlanta,\u201d says Manny Faces<\/a><\/strong>, the award-winning, new media journalist who founded the site. \u201cWhile it all-too-often simplified the artform, it was becoming increasingly lucrative. New York was more interested in keeping true to its roots, and while the area was still advancing the artform in many ways, few were paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n With years\u2019 experience building acclaimed news websites\u00a0as well as having\u00a0been an artist, producer and DJ himself, Manny Faces decided to launch BirthplaceMag.com as a blog in 2008 to combat the dearth of quality, local hip-hop coverage. Over the years, it became a moderate-sized online destination, at one time averaging more than 30,000 visitors a month, and was the only site dedicated to covering artists, events, business and cultural issues exclusively from the area.<\/p>\n To supplement the magazine site, Manny Faces launched a companion, live, call-in talk show podcast, The NY Hip Hop Report<\/em><\/a>, which ran from 2012-2014 and was reinvented as a Facebook live television broadcast program in 2017.<\/p>\n