First Class Hip Hop is one of the many fiercely independent radio stations that broadcast everyday from Live365.com, and also one of the many that feature GarageBand artists in their mix. We recently caught up with DJ/CEO Tha Kingpin (aka Darvio Morrow) to discuss the takeover of the music industry by independent artists and entrepreneurs.
Morrow told us the mission of First Class was to "bring a mixture of the best mainstream and underground rap and R&B artists from the past, present and future, so there's something for everyone."
To that end, he's been digging deep in the GarageBand crates for great independent hip hop to showcase, and has given equal air time to such GB favorites as Brianna, Theo Mill$, Natalie Brown, Charles Simmons and many others.
"I think organizations like Live365 and GarageBand are the forerunners of a revolution," Morrow said. "In this society of corporation after corporation taking over and bastardizing the music and the cultures that we love, its hard to compete. I've heard rock fans and punk fans tell me that the same problems that we have in hip-hop, they have in their respective genres, so it's time for us to band together and take our music back."
