That's how Kim Osorio felt about the magazine in the years before she worked there.Ī Bronx native with confidence, writing chops and a deep love of hip-hop music to offer, Osorio entered The Source's offices as an employee for the first time in 2000, ready to step into her dream job. The power held by The Source represented one of those rare occasions in rap when the pen is just as mighty as the tongue. For rap nerds, there was a high that came from the pages: the smooth artifice of the ads, the bluntness of the op-eds, the iconic cover stories and the reviews section that made '5 mics in The Source' one of the most coveted cosigns. It shipped regional sounds across the country to a national readership and the viewers of its very own, sometimes-televised awards show. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, it helped launch the careers of The Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, Nas, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown and more. By the turn of the century, the name had weight of its own to throw around. Starting out in 1988 as a newsletter out of a college dorm room, hip-hop's longest-running periodical built its following by writing about rap with respect, and an air of prestige. And this led to more cries and more tears.While the current media landscape makes it hard to imagine a single publication - printed or otherwise - holding sway over an entire culture, for more than a decade, no rapper, label, show or network, was bigger than The Source. More distant relatives, more acquaintances had arrived. A curse had fallen upon us all.Īmid the ordeal of surviving without her, at her home, the very place where she was brought up and nurtured, my day passed somehow. And there were those eyes in which the tears had dried up. There were whispers and there were sudden cries. People in dull clothes sat on a giant mattress on the floor of the vacant drawing-room.

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