Journaminimalism: a boutique investment banker’s loving nickname for a profession I so deeply adore.

This post may come as a surprise or it may not. Yours truly has de-committed himself from the staff writing gig at AllHipHop.com because, frankly, I’ve come to realize that it has no redeeming value. While I wish the AHH enterprise great things, I also hope that in their pursuit of funding to help the site grow bigger and better, company principals learn how to not make promises they can’t keep, and most of all, start breaking hard-working writers off with bread. (bragging in national magazines about millions in advertising revenue also isn’t a good look, they should just know better, but we can chalk that up to well, what they think is standard business practice in anything Hip-Hop).

While I hate to make your Monday morning sour, the news alert is that grass is always greener on the other side, or so they say. So, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be joining Scheme Magazine in the capacity of contributing editor and you may also see my byline over at HipHopDX once in a while. Neither of these is going to make me rich (my day job is still at the California Real Estate Journal), but equity and integrity at this point are more important than everything else.

Oh, and I still write for the financially bankrupt but morally and ethically sound The Source Magazine. Ryan Ford, what it do?

Peace world.

-Slav Kandyba writes Hip-Hop Files, a column about Hip-Hop journalism.