Five Reasons Why Hip-Hop Needs The .Awards Back

This night, with the airing of BET’s Hip Hop Awards, we assess the most famous cultural awards reveal of perpetuity in Hip Hop.  Concluding a prolonged hiatus, The SOURCE AWARDS is preparing to install a strong resurgence. The last SOURCE Awards reveal remained in 2005, sadly leaving an extensive effect and space on the culture. Despite other Awards reveals, there has actually not been any close competitors to the renowned Source Awards, duration. We all understand this holds true. For openness, the Source Awards is likewise owned by this website (and The Source Magazine under The NorthStar Group owned by super-attorney L. Londell McMillan). With the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and the 35th anniversary of The SOURCE looming, the time is now. 

Once a scene for the fight of Hip-Hop supremacy, the SOURCE Awards, both in the physical and awards, will quickly return in the spirit of peace and positivity, eventually boasting the most considerable category of music in the world. 

With eyes on a prospective 2023 return, here are simply 5 (of numerous) factors Hip-Hop requirements The SOURCE Awards BACK.

1. Returning an Iconic Show for a New Generation
The SOURCE Awards have actually not been on the air for rather some time.  During such lack, legends like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Nicki Minaj grew and grew into renowned stars. Hip-hop likewise lost titans in DMX, Big Pun, and Biz Markie without the production of a vital platform to provide their simply “in memoriam” recommendation. That need to definitely end. A return of The SOURCE Awards will generate a generation of stars to now mix along with the publication’s travel into the digital age and beyond while getting in touch with the icons that this crop of stars and those that will come later on base on their shoulders.

2. Back By Popular Demand 
No matter what Awards program begins, The Source Awards is the plan. The individuals in Hip Hop culture show back and request for the return of The SOURCE Awards since they cannot be mimicked. A center for minutes, questionable or renowned, absence like The SOURCE Awards exists. With The SOURCE’s social networks blowing up after every other program, it will return by popular need. With a concentrate on promoting peace and the power of Hip-Hop, fans will instantly gravitate to a program that nobody has actually had the ability to change.

3. To Create More Moments
Hip-Hop is as much about the sentimental minutes as it has to do with the future. The SOURCE Awards have actually typically belonged of valuable moments with our Hip-Hop heroes. To this day, Andre 3000’s declaration, “The South Got Somethin’ to Say,” stays a roll call. For us to recall, we need to represent the culture and imagination in today. With the introduction of many areas of Hip-Hop, it’s time to develop a platform for more to shine. Remember this one, “If you dont want your record company president all up in your videos, come to Death Row.”  These are the irreplaceable Hip Hop minutes we like… 

4. A True Black-Owned Awards Show
No shade to anybody else, however there is no present, Black-owned Awards reveal rooted in Hip-Hop. Don’t think us? Look it up….. Now that you have actually returned from your Googles, The Source is independent and Black-owned. Need we state more? Our culture, our individuals, our music. The Source Awards under all Black ownership is genuinely for us and from us.  

5. Giving the Proper Flowers
The SOURCE Awards were at first developed to provide awards to individuals who correctly deserve them, prior to the Grammys even had a Rap Music classification, and to big-up genuine hip hop and not simply crossover hits. The SOURCE commemorated the appropriate classification of our art and designs and a precise evaluation of skill and bodies of work. If you are chosen, you belong there. Remember when Snoop stated, “Y’all put on’t like the West Coast?!” We do. And we will get it right. 

Join us in our push for the return of The SOURCE Awards…