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Great to hear Graham right now. Also, I want to add that, just as there are many garageband artists/music hobbiests who like to get together with their friends and create their own rock/pop/metal/name the genre of music. I know so many people who love to get together with their friends and produce hip-hop, just for fun, whether with real musical instruments, computer composition programs, or a mixture of both, and then take turns rapping and singing, sometimes freestyling, sometimes lyrics previously written.

Even Portland's notorious hipster scene is a presence in Portland's hip-hop scene.

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Hip-Hop. Portland's hip-hop scene is amazingly diverse within and of of itself. Artists such as Lifesavas which are huge on the national underground scene, and rappers such as Dialek who are recognized as one of Portland's best rappers. Sandpeople another large group that performs concert after concert and album after album. Dirty, of Ghetto studios is an amazing producer. I co-hosted a radio show at OSU called "Peep dis" for 4 years and we dedicated one hours of our weekly show to hip hop from the northwest and it was a hit, so many artist kept us well stocked with incredible music.

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