Links & Webrings

If you don't know what a webring is, it's basically a chain of pages all built around the same thing — in this case, rap records, old and new — so you can hop from one to the next without having to go back to some search engine that doesn't even know what you're looking for half the time. I found most of these through other pages just like mine, and I figure the least I can do is pass the favor along. Click through, sign their guestbooks too if they still work, and tell 'em Harkirat sent you.

Sites I like

The Boombox Basement — one guy's tape-trading page, mostly dubbed radio rips and a want-list that never seems to get shorter.
Wax Poetics Radio Hour (Archive Page) — old show notes and setlists from a college radio rap show that used to air Thursday nights.
The Cipher — bar-for-bar lyric breakdowns, way before anybody else was doing this, updated whenever the guy running it has time.
DAT Tape Vault — a digging page for rare freestyles and radio exclusives, half the links are dead but the ones that work are worth it.
88 Bars a Minute — a scrolling list of favorite verses with zero explanation, just the bars, which honestly rules.
Boom Bap Bulletin Board — a message board for people who think rap peaked at some point and want to argue about when.
Old Skool No Sellouts — a real bare-bones page but the guy's opinions on classic records are all correct so it stays linked.
Crate Digger's Corner — sample-source page, matches breakbeats to the records that stole 'em, endless rabbit hole.

Webrings & badges

These are the rings and badges I'm proud to fly on this page — click any one of 'em to keep the chain going.