Okayplayer
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Okayplayer.com is a prominent online hip-hop website and community. The group was co-founded by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson as a loose musical collective in 1987, and evolved into an online community in 1999. In 2004, ?uestlove launched Okayplayer Records as a spin-off of the community.
This community is made up of like-minded recording artists (who keep their official internet homes there), visitors to the site, and individuals who post on the site's messageboard, the most popular feature of the site. All of the artists and staff, as well as those who post to the site's messageboard, are considered "okayplayers," or "OKPs" for short.
The Okayplayer artists are The Roots, Talib Kweli, Jean Grae, Jill Scott, Scratch (formerly of the Roots), Common, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek), Hi-Tek, Dilated Peoples, J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, D'Angelo, Jaguar Wright, Blackalicious, Jazzyfatnastees, Skillz, Aceyalone, DangerDoom, The Coup, Leela James, M-1, Mr. Lif, India Arie, Mos Def, K-os, RJD2, Amy Winehouse, Grandmaster Melle Mel and Pharoahe Monch.
Okayplayer.com also features repeats of the weekday editions of the comic strip The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder.
From the Okayplayer website:
okayplayer [noun]
1. "Okayplayer" is the shorthand name for okayplayer.com. Okayplayer is not a record label. Okayplayer.com is an online community. This community is made up of like-minded recording artists (who keep their official Internet homes here) and visitors to the site.
2."Okayplayer" is also, simply, the name of a person who is asscociated with the site. All of the artists, message board members and staff are okayplayers.
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| The Roots |
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| Black Thought | Captain Kirk Douglas | Kamal Gray | Hub | F. Knuckles | ?uestlove Malik B. | Ben Kenney | Kid Crumbs | Martin Luther | Rahzel | Scratch | Scott Storch | Josh Abrams | Maimouna Youssef a.k.a Luna E. | Dice Raw | Wadud Ahmad | Peedi Peedi |
| Discography |
| Organix (1993) | From the Ground Up (1994) | Do You Want More?!!!??! (1995) | Illadelph Halflife (1996) | Things Fall Apart (1999) | The Legendary (1999) | The Roots Come Alive (1999) | Phrenology (2002) | The Tipping Point (2004) | Game Theory (2006) |
| Related articles |
| Okayplayer | Ursula Rucker |
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