Feb 4, 2015

shout out to @Kold for noticing this

 

Jan 10, 2015

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www.sectioneighty.com

Take a peak around, we still got some work to do on this joint but what you see is close to the final product. Salute to @Akaash and @ODB for the multiple hours of work they put in to this to get it to where it is right now. @Wiz KaShiva been working on the social networks right now, and that'll put the site over the top.

I know a lot of people were expecting a music blog, and the original plan was to open as one, but ODB helped shift the site to a culture blog off the bat. It was always in the plan to go that way when I picked the name ‘Section Eighty’ for this site, but I thought we’d be over extending ourselves if we did that off launch. Still, if this joint is going to succeed or flop, I wouldn’t do it with any other team than the people who came over from JCN with me.

Sections:
Music: new singles, news, interviews
Sports: highlight plays, news, opinion pieces
Culture: weird news, video games, movies, TV and everything else
Reviews: music reviews

To all the people who reached out about getting involved, I'll be hitting you shortly with some info. If you're someone who would like to get involved (post news, or type up feature articles) just identify which area you could add in and hit me, @ODB or @Akaash with a PM.

Thanks to Poly for everything. Also thanks to Slyk for helping me try to figure out the technical issues we experienced when trying to launch this.

www.sectioneighty.com

 

Jan 15, 2016

www.soundspurple.com​

This is still a work in progress, but welcome to the new blog!

For those who didn't know, the last blog ultimately failed due to the sheer amount of content we tried to take on. It's impossible for a few people to maintain a "blog" in the traditional sense (though shouts out to @Flacko / @ODB / @Mike Tyson / @Slyk for their effort with that last time, holy s---) where we post every tidbit of news and hope it makes it to the front page of r/HHH. Though we saw a decent amount of success quickly, we simply didn't have the money or resources to keep it up. We're gonna take this more slowly this time and focus on longform for the time being. That is: reviews, interviews, think-pieces, etc. I'll be focusing on rap for this reason, though we are hoping to expand to all music, sports, tv, film, general culture, etc. s---t me a PM if you're interested in writing/submitting something in any of those departments.

I will be handling the writing/editing/publishing portion of the site. @Mike Tyson and @ODB will be in charge of graphics/social media/design/etc.

Shouts out to @Charlie Strangelove for coming up with the name.

Shouts out to @Soldier, @Mike Tyson, @Blaza, @Big Mitch, @Charlie Strangelove, @Flacko, @THCLUTCH, @Skippy, @Slyk, @Nay Nay, @Changeling, @Dew, and @Skippy for helping nominate and construct the list. Huge thanks to Blaza, Has, Mitch, Changeling, and THCLUTCH for helping write the blurbs. I promise I'll be a real editor and give actual feedback next time

Shouts out to @threee for being the only other editor and for his awful australian versions of words like "litre" and "sombre."

Shouts out to @Narsh here's your articles you f--- (and on Beast Mode's anniversary no less). But seriously thanks for letting us rehost them. I will have Only One up soon, I just prioritized things that were on the list.

Shouts out to @captain awesome for also letting me republish his old articles. Republishing everything will be a WIP over the next week or so.

Anyway, this list is already really late, but we figured it would be a good piece to start things off. Let's get some discussion going.

SoundsPurple: Top Picks for 2015​

 

Jul 28, 2017

So, long story short, I recently quit my 9-5 and went 100% freelance. I can make more money in less time and that's given me some time to work on personal projects. With the help of some peeps here (@Mike Tyson @Flacko @Dew @Big Mitch) I'm (re)launching a rap/rap culture longform thinkpiece website (which some of you may remember from our preemptive launch awhile back lol) as an outlet for my writing. Think of it as somewhat of an affiliate/sister site to SXN80, would love to see more SXN80 members contribute to this as well if you need an outlet for your writing chops.

I've got a few articles/interviews in the pipeline (will be posting all the old stuff from the old SXN80 blog as well), but to start off, we got a mid-year list. Comments/critiques regarding anything on the site always appreciated.

This dope graphic by @Mike Tyson:


The 17 Best Rap Albums of 2017 (So Far)