Mark Pirie's hip-hop article published
The Summer 2016 issue of Phantom Billsticker's Cafe Reader includes my article on hip-hop with a focus on Aotearoa homegrown hip-hop.
The article is the start of a series of essays I am writing for a longer memoir or book of autobiographical essays.
This essay focuses on my days as dee-jay at Radio Active in Wellington during my student years at Victoria University of Wellington 1993-1995.
It ranges over Aotearoa hip-hop and offers a potted history of its development in New Zealand.
I am very pleased to have my article published in a well-designed/edited and well-read production, which offers historical insights into the New Zealand music scene.
Phantom Billstickers do a great job getting the word out to the streets.