DANBURY, Conn. , May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ( http://www.myprgenie.com ) -- Fairfield County might not be the fist place that comes to mind when thinking about rap music. The stigma of the Gold Coast - pink polos and trust fund babies - is ever-present. However, since hip-hop came to Connecticut in the late 1970's, the movement has slowly been gaining momentum in the Nutmeg state. Though it has long been dwarfed by its neighbor to the south, the state's underground scene is flourishing. Now more than ever, CT hip-hop appears ready to step out of the shadows.
Getting there hasn't been easy. "Back in the day you didn't hear anything coming out of CT, nobody took it seriously," says Mack1er of the Bethel based group The Path We Chose . "The serious stuff came out of NY, then the West Coast."
With no backing, no distribution, and no image… the prospects for CT rappers were bleak.
However insurmountable these challenges seemed, Connecticut hip-hop artists kept working, and that work has paid off. Through endurance and creativity, and with the power of the Internet, the hip-hop scene from Stamford and Norwalk , to Bethel and Danbury , is thriving.
When I asked long time friend and hip hop artist Al Babblez to throw together a "hyper-positive" track so that I could help promote it as part of the As Spirit movement; I had no doubt it would be of the highest quality. What I didn't know was that Babblez would develop what could be considered the -As Spirit- theme song for the hip hop genre.
Babblez sent me his track late one night, when I was actually getting ready to settle in and begin my meditation practice. Not necessarily the best time to throw on a high or even mid-tempo hip hop track (at least not for me). But with lingering anticipation, I downloaded the file and found that my assumptions were not entirely accurate. Babblez was fully capable of setting just the right pace for that state of being... something I had yet to experience with any hip hop music in the past.
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