"Hip-Hop was told to be a youth-oriented culture, but I think that Hip-Hop's participants are one day gonna' face the fact like Yo, mothaf-----. We 40.

I'm 36 and tell people I'm 40 because basically I am 40. I think like an old man. So I have absolutely no qualms about it, and I think that it's very possible for a 40 year old to exist in this climate. We saw evidence of that when we sold out Radio City Music Hall for two nights. And all the sudden we were scratchin' our heads like 'How the hell did this group without a platinum record sell out 6,000 seats'?

And then it just hit us, our audience just grew old with us, and those same 40 year old cats that were in college 20 years ago, cats that were 25 when the 'Low End Theory' came out, are now fathers in 2007. They still want to hear that music they grew up on. You never want to abandon the soundtrack of your youth. There's just been nobody that openly embraces it in a fun way and don't make it seem old." - ?uestlove

The Hip-Hop community! With each musical download, a large portion of each sale goes to the artist in question, a portion goes to a charity beneficial to Hip-Hop and the rest goes back towards advancing this movement! You can give back because you are a fan that wants to enjoy, learn and appreciate Hip-Hop's past, in addition to preserving the culture. You can give back because you want to bypass the greedy middle man and give directly to your favorite artist or you can give back because you just want to say thank you!

We at RareHipHop.com, believe everything is coming full circle in Hip-Hop and we want to help push that movement with this site. Legends in Hip-Hop aren't revered like legends in other forms of music, so we want to help change that! Old School artists can't sell records, this must stop and we will do our part! Many of our legends don't get big tour money, this must cease! We want to make our history 'vogue', so lets celebrate it!