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Hasheem Amin. Photo courtesy of the artist

Five Questions with hip-hop artist Hasheem Amin on his release The Reunion, featuring “The Streets Still Jumpin’”

July 31, 2018 by: Michael Allen Zell

First off, what does the title reference?

My start in doing hip-hop was almost exclusively underground. Everybody was wanting to get signed to a label. We didn’t care about that. The song did have something to do with coming back after Katrina and finding we’re still the music mecca of the world. It’s referencing I had ’em jumpin’ before too. Music will never be muffled.

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