WV Hip Hop State of the Union

Create WV team member and diversity track leader Crystal Good Nazario shared this historical look into West Virginia's hip hop history in Graffiti, West Virginia's monthly entertainment newspaper: 

West Virginia has a certain image that isn't necessarily helping it in the global economy where talented, skilled people can live and work anywhere they want. Studies show that young people and professional people value diversity and want to live where they can enjoy diverse cultural offerings — and that includes hip-hop.

West Virginia, being the least ethnically diverse state in the nation, struggles with its image in the area of diversity and the state’s low percentage of a diverse population makes it difficult to attract different cultural and entertainment options. However, you will see from the Top 10 West Virginia Hip-Hop Moments that the Mountain State indeed has a hip-hop culture and that culture is evolving.

These are some defining moments that will go down in West Virginia hip-hop history. Read More at Graffiti

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Cool. I see hip hop is still getting its come up'ns in the WV. Yall even got a few under your belt. I believe it won't be too long, though. Another 5 or 10 and someone might hit it big from there. Hey, look how long it took VA to get on the map.

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