Social Media Is The New Hip Hop

April 22nd, 2008 | Author: Parker Mason

Remember last year when I was slagging MyRagan and saying that it wouldn’t make it past the first year? During that whole debacle I continued to update my roommate. He isn’t a blogger, but he told me that it sounded like social media is the new hip-hop, complete with beef.

With M0serious climbing up the charts and my recent post about Wu-Tang, I’m starting to think that there is more to my roommate’s comment than I first thought.

I was reminded again about this because of this recent post by Tris Hussey at Maple Leaf 2.0 about how Mike Arrington couldn’t handle being scooped by Erin Kotecki Vest. Similarly, Shel Israel and Loren Feldman seem to have worked up some serious tension (back story here).

In the words of my roommate, “someone is gonna get shot.”

And in semi-related news, look for a post on BlogCampaigning in the next week about the similarities between the Wu-Tang concept of “Killah Beez” and crowdsourcing/smart mobs.

-Parker

Posted in Social Media |

Tags: blogging, hip-hop, Social Media

3 Responses to “Social Media Is The New Hip Hop”

Chris Clarke:

April 22, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Great analogy. There’s so much hating going on. Whose gonna be Biggie? Tupac? Hilarious.
Brad:

April 23, 2008 at 1:53 am

hatin’ is too easy – what about the echo of shout outs for the shout outs on that last post?
blogcampaigning » Blog Archive » Hip-Hop and Social Media: Together Again:

June 2, 2008 at 7:24 pm

[...] post on TechCrunch made me think that my earlier post about how social media might be the new hip-hop was way more on point than I had [...]

Additional comments powered by BackType

What’s the deal with this website?

You're reading BlogCampaigning. We write about public relations, social media, video games, marketing and pretty much whatever we feel is important. We've been around since August, 2006

Jens "Schredd" Schroeder has been around since the beginning, and he mostly writes about video games.

Heather Morrison is our newest recruit, and she also blogs about life in the big city at Toronto Uncovered.

All of the content on this site is cleaned up by Adam Gorley, our resident copy-editor. He does a hell of a job, and he also writes a few posts for us now and then. Not a lot of people know this, but he is also a soul music DJ who goes by the name "Night Danger."

Parker Mason is the self-described Editor-in-Chief of BlogCampaigning and runs the site with an iron fist. He's also a pretty great guy - you should meet him sometime.

Espen Skoland started this website a few years ago so that he could get extra marks for his thesis, but he's pretty much given up on contributing. Still, we often refer to him as The Legendary Founder. He might be lazy, but he left us with a legacy.

Social Media Is The New Hip Hop

3 Responses to “Social Media Is The New Hip Hop”

Leave a Reply