Introducing Lunchtable Sessions

Lunchtable Sessions is a blog about hip-hop bloggers. It's the evolution of an idea started by Eric Nord to aggregate posts from hip-hop bloggers to make it easier for readers to keep track of. Cuz let's face it, most people just aren't going to use bloglines or kinja.

If you have a hip-hop blog of your own, here's how to use Lunchtable Sessions:

1. Each month think of a post interesting enough to have listed on Lunchtable Sessions
2. Send a trackback from that post to the post in Lunchtable Sessions for that month
3. If you don't understand trackback, just go back to your post, add the phrase "Lunchtable Session," plus the month, and your post be be automatically added to the site. Cool, no? (It takes a few weeks if you do it this way, though)

And why the name Lunchtable Sessions? Well, back in high school I would sit around the cafeteria lunchtable with friends playing spades and talking about hip-hop. But the cafeteria was noisy and the lunch period short, so our conversation was always limited to only the hottest happenings in the music culture we lived and loved.

And that's what this new website is for. Instead of readers wading through 20+ posts a month on each of our sites, they can feel comfortable skipping a week or two, then checking out Lunchtable Tables for what was going on during the time they were sleeping.

Got all of that? Good!

Peep the posts for January and February and get going.

Oh yeah, the site is still a work in progress, but I want to get it started now, or else it won't launch until June!

Comments

[asthmatic]

great idea.. added rss feed to my newsreader.

[sally]

this "hip hop blogging" thing has gotten waaaay too meta.

[Nathan]

Excerpt from hiphop-elements.com of February 23, 2005 ....
Hip-hop sensation KANYE WEST has been slammed by magazine editors after demanding he be paid to pose for photoshoots.

I wanted to wade in on this article with my comments as it relates solely from a business perspective.

I read recently that Kanye West is cocky ... but we need to stop for a moment and consider the business of rap/hip hop.

Why should everyone benefit from this tremendous industry except the immediate players? When a "Brand Name Designer" manufacturers a garment for 48-cents in South America and marks that up 1000% who complains?

Kanye West having just won a Grammy is a business entity. When he's placed on the cover of any magazine after winning this prestigious award, that publication will sell in record numbers. Would Esquire have approached him if he hadn't won a grammy? Be careful, "a no-name artist" may call your bluff! Who's winning from his new found fame? Why shouldn't he be paid or negotiate his share of that pot?

Or, should the hip hop artist only always settle and be content with just what he's given and shut up? Think about it - are we begging for a lodging? Or are we equal beings in this world where we are all living on borrowed time from the Master?

http://www.rap4abuck.com/e_flyer.htm

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