Recently I read that MOP is a group consisting of Suge and Freddy Foxx . Ok so everyone makes mistakes but often people who don't know a thing about hip-hop are assigned to write articles and end up printing a bunch of lies. The Source is not alone, almost every publication does this, you have to inevitably pay the bills. I feel this affects content as you can often see a positive correlation between the number of ads a label takes out in a magazine and the record reviews artists on that label receive. Plain and simple rap publications don't seem to be objective when it comes to records from their major advertisers.
Wack records get much props.
Magazines often concentrate on the artist of the moment ignoring some other artists with large underground following and like it or not this impacts sales. The same magazines that claim to represent hip hop culture don't give light to underground artists, keeping them underground forever. Magazines like rolling stone won't touch you if you're not multi-platinum, so what's an artist to do. I guess we cant blame them, they are just tryin to get their money. At the forefront you have The Source , regarded as the magazine for hip hop.