Technically, the SXSW panel was called “Eight Things That Hip-hop Taught America." But Dan Charnas, author of “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-hop,” Elliott Wilson, chief executive of Rap Radar and former XXL editor, and Rob Stone, the founder and co-president of Cornerstone promotion had a hard time getting to it all. For a relatively new musical movement, there's a lot of history to talk about.
So, here are five points from the presentation...[continued]
