After continual legal attacks, Napster is finally gaining support from the hip-hop community. Rapstation.Com and Napster have come together to giveaway $5000 to the best emcee. Aspiring emcees will write lyrics on why they support Napster, and drop their rhymes over PE's "Power To The People and The Beats" track, giving them a chance to win 5Gs.

The deadline for the contest is May 15th, so head on over to the MP3 Jamz Section at Rapstation, peep the rules, listen to the beat and start writing. The winner will also have his/her song featured on BringTheNoise.Com as well as Rapstation.

Chuck D also chimed in his support for Napster in a New York Times editorial: "I'm in support of the sharing of music files. I believe that truly another parallel music industry will be created alongside the one that presently exists, and that's the bottom line stake that traditionalists fear. Having been connected to the genre of hip hop and rap music for 22 years, I've witnessed the lack of proper service areas to fully support the majority of artists, songwriters, producers and labels in getting the music to it's fan base.
As far as the lawsuits from METALLICA and DR.DRE are concerned, they're nothing but cases used to support yet another lawyer looking to preserve the prehistoric existence of contracts past. They are the exception to the rule, almost adopting the principals of the masters that pay them."

Peep the entire editorial in Chuck D's Terrordome at Public-Enemy.Com.


Submitted by Q
Editor-In-Chief for The Daily Hip-Hop News

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