Personally i like Fungayi's writting and editing can I just bring two points to your attention that I thought you should take note of.
1. Sunday world exposed MR Selwyn for being broke and selling insurance at a call centre and he managed to bring down the hip-hop ship and make us all look hopeless. Hype magazine did a very small piece on MR Selwyn and explained that he had a 8-5 thats all, where as Y mag went into the details as to why the MR Selwyn aka Sama award winning Formula has failed and he exposed it all and explained what went wrong at Gallo and why the music had failed on his side. Now as a hip-hop artist I dont know how gallo run there joint but the article was an eye opener and hence made me more wise about just jumping with any record label regarding albums and shit.
2.Jozi had a feature in Hype mag with Crazy Lu still being a member and verything seemed gravy with the click holding hands singing like nothing was wrong and the click was strong as a unit, Less than a week later Y mag released a jozi cover too and the story was the complete opposite with CRazy Lu now taking shots at Jozi and how ghetto ruff did him wrong.
I used to be a die hard fan of both hype and y mag but lately if the story dont intrest I won't cop the mag. Also G-unit Released T.O.S and none these magz did a piece on G-unit and the fall-out that happend with Young Buck therefore forcing me to not buy either but rather cop an international magazine that just happend to have an excellent article on this issue...
I love local hip-hop dont get me wrong but I am tired of reading about Kwaito artists claiming to make a came back but in reality just wanted the publicity in the magazine so that they wont look like failures in the eyes of there friends and family. We read about artists who are made to look like Gods by the way the writer can paint a picture perfect artist but in reality they release a half hearted album and then blame the marketing for the failure of the album.
The best way to raise the level of magazine quality is to increase the competition.
