Hood Grown Magazine (wwww.hoodgrown.com), the new hip hop magazine with a focus on featuring major and indie artists without bias is preparing to release, "The Indie Hip Hop Toolkit".

The Indie Hip Hop Toolkit is based loosely on the popular Musicians Guide To Touring and Promotion series but will feature a strictly hip hop slant. The Indie Hip Hop Toolkit will contain lists of clubs, retail stores, radio stations, producers, managers, and labels that deal with independent hip hop. It will also contain contracts for production, management, etc that budding entrepreneurs can utilize.

“I love the Musicians Guide To Touring and Promotion but I always wished it had more of a hip hop focus." said Christopher English, CEO and Publisher of Hood Grown Magazine. "Like Hood Grown Magazine itself, I felt that publishing this guide would  be another way I could help those trying to come up”.

If you''re a manager, record label, retail store (online and offline), producer, promotions company, club promoter, hip hop based website, booking agent, club owner, video production/editing company, cd/vinyl duplcator, graphic artist, printer, mixtape dj, radio station (online or offline) or distributor and you would like to be included in the book, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  with the following information:

Contact Name

Name of Business

Category (producer, internet radio, website, etc) Email Address Phone Number Address (include city, state, and zip)

This information must be provided before May 31, 2005 to be considered for inclusion.

The Indie Hip Hop Toolkit will be published twice a year. - Cartel

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