“I woke up this morning I was feeling kind of high, it was me, Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie I. Selassie I said greetings in the name of the most High, Jah Rastafari. Christ, took a sip of the Amaretto, passed it down the table & said today I’ll be betrayed by one of you 12 disciples. Give me a clue who could do this to you? The kid on the block who makes less money than you.”

Wyclef spit this first verse on the immutable Fugees album The Score, and this same verse (and song) is what sparked the genesis of Manifest The Rhyme. I decided to relaunch an entirely new blog with a new concept after my previous blood, sweat and tears was hacked. The reasoning behind that? Who knows. Why do haters hate? How long has the Sun been producing light? It really is a conundrum to me. It’s in the past now – and I’ve kept it moving. And while I’ve kept it stepping, I decided to make evident manifest my still-infinite love for Hip-Hop. Not just the music, but the cultures within. And the subcultures within that culture.

To keep it 100, the past 4 months or so I’ve tried to completely steer myself away from the stagnate, boring copy-and-paste blogs that have been plaguing the world wide web in the past couple of years. *Yawn* It’s the equivalent of Black Death on not just the state of the culture, but journalism as a whole. Gone are the days of creative writing, in are the blogs and bloggers rigorously trying to become an overnight celebrity. Gone are the days of the perseverance of our iconic culture, in are the exploiters. Someone needs to Obama this motherfucker, and I’m not saying I’m that dude, but I’m here to assist.

With that said and done, this is exactly what you’re getting yourself into: Absolutely no gossip or rumors will appear on the pages of Manifest The Rhyme. Head over to SOHH for that shit. Instead, you will receive a healthy dose of the Hip-Hop I’ve grown to love; certain days we might drift off onto memory lane where I may revisit an early 90s classic. On top of the Hip-Hop, you’ll also be presented with some reggae, some dubstep here and there, maybe some indie. Actually, you’ll see lots of reggae represented here – and in a few posts, you’ll find out why. Thank you for reading, and please be sure to bookmark us and update your RSS feeds. Huge props to Magnus!