What Kind of Hip Hop Head Are You? · Result
The Scene Loyalist
You saw them in a room for sixty people, and you still buy the shirt.
Designed rarity: about 7% of takers
You back the local scene, and you tend to do it with your wallet and your feet. You go to the small shows on a Tuesday, buy the shirt at the merch table, share the release the day it comes out and tell your friends to come next time. People like you were in the room for sixty people long before television found the artist, and you are not bitter about it. You are proud. Scenes survive because someone keeps showing up, and that someone is very often you.
You often know the promoter, the sound engineer and the person on the door by name. You like small rooms, early sets by artists nobody has heard of yet, and the feeling of a crowd that knows each other. You keep the flyers, follow the new names and buy tickets before the lineup is fully announced. When an artist you saw early finally plays a big stage, you go, you stand somewhere near the back, and you quietly enjoy having been right.
Your strength
You turn up for local artists when it counts, and scenes are built on people like you.
Your blind spot
Loyalty can make you less honest about a show that was not very good.
Key takeaways
- You saw them in a room for sixty people, and you still buy the shirt.
- Scenes survive because someone keeps showing up.
- Honest support helps artists more than loyal silence.
Rooms to try around the world
- Lee's Palace, Toronto: A small room where touring and local acts play close enough to meet you at the merch table.
- Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver: A Chinatown club that gives local hip hop nights a proper system and a place to grow.
- Amoeba Music, Los Angeles: A record shop where in store shows put new artists in front of people who actually buy the record.
Your nearest types
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