Hip Hop Weekly: No Show Or Snakes On A Plane?

So Hip Hop Weekly's the big joke with multiple punchlines until it drops and then an eerie silence pervades?

Has anyone actually checked out a physical copy of Hip Hop Weekly?

I'm assuming it's out there and the reality is that a lot of folks don't really care about the product itself, just the enjoyable build-up.

Somebody clue me in since I obviously don't know what's up.

By the way, here's the latest over at the hiphopweekly.com site which has yet to change hands:
10/17/2006 Update:  Their will be a slight delay in the announcement planned for today. However, due to various events, we have decided to hold out on any announcements. Please feel free to check back later for further details.

"Various events" sounds like a good phrase to cover the rich variety of outcomes that could occur when doing business with Dave Mays and Benzino.

Update:
Looks like Hip Hop Weekly ditched hiphopweekly.com for the far less viable hip-hopweekly.com, assuming we're not still in parody territory, I honestly can't tell.

But, taking this at face value, if I owned hiphopweekly.com, I would immediately put some high dollar intrusive advertising all over it plus some links to whatever seems appropriate because hiphopweekly.com will be the default in people's minds if the publication goes anywhere and folks try just typing in the obvious domain.  I would also leave the heading Hip Hop Weekly to take advantage of current search engine equity for the domain.

I think that would be a fitting opportunistic move given what I'm guessing are the circumstances.  But I'm just guessing.

Hey, would this qualify as one of those "various events"?

Special thanks to Eskay for the tip on hip-hopweekly.com's existence.

By the way, seriously, I've got weeklyhiphop.com registered.  You can get it directly from me now and avoid the upcoming inflation of value during ProHipHop's Hip Hop Domain Auction, or you can wait and keep wishing you were a media mogul like me [lol].

Hit me up: clyde(at)prohiphop(dot)com

Comments

[slavthejournalist]

100,000 copies out there. 300,000,000 people in the U.S. It ain't in LA, I can say that with 28.8 degree accuracy.

[Clyde Smith]

You mean, there are supposed to be 100k or you know there are but you're not seeing them?

[Clydes Dad]

I bought a copy today and its decent. The layout is WAY better than Source ironically enough and the articles remind you of a Hip-Hop verstion of "US magazine" - concise, amusing and more direct than mainstream journalism.

I appreciated the candid shots of rappers going through their day. (Fat Joe holding a diet Pepsi is hilarous!)

Clyde, how could you imagine what doing business wit Mays and Ray could be like? You write a little known column in a blog that is ranked so low on Alexa you'd do better giving ad space away.

lol...just kidding. But see how it feels to be degraded? Now seriously, please stop reading and finish detailing my car.