Elements Magazine

POSTED November 5, 2009 BY Adrian Mcinnes

A little Hip-Hop history for you kiddies out there and a throw back for the heads. Elements Hip Hop Journal was a magazine printed bi-monthly (I think every issue was late) by the Student Radio Society of UBC with somewhat of a tie to CiTR radio. It focused on all the elements of Hip Hop culture: MC’s, Dj’s, Breaking and Graffiti all on a local, national, and international levels. It featured interviews, music reviews, and lifestyle issues pertaining to the Hip Hop community. This shit was real and for the heads. No filler. The Covers were receptively handcrafted by Virus and Dedos of the AA Crew. J Swing and Flipout took on the responsibilities as Editors/Layout/Production. AllCity Action Team Art Directed it. Rob Rizk took care of Advertising. It was Published by Linda Scholten. Some of the Contributers over its existence were: Checkmate, Jeeps, Kemo the Labrat, Kilo Cee, Mr. Bill and the Incredible Ease, Freestyle Crazee, Ebony, Day, Omeka Almighty and the list goes on. I don’t have every issue and I’m not exactly sure how many were produced. J Swing probably has them all. The cover were sick! the content kept you up to date on real Hip Hop. The type of magazine that I would read every single word cover to cover. Oh yeah and it was FREE! elementstribe1 . Here are some scans of a few issue covers for your enjoyment…
elementsmobbdeep
elementsgrouphome
elementsdelasoul
elementsbusta
elementsbboy

Category: Design,Magazines,Music,Our History

Arron

Awesomeeee!!!!
Frank D.

Sick cover art. Don’t think I’ve ever flipped through one of these…would be awesome to check ‘em out.
kk

AA Crew!! Loved these. Got some squirreled away somewhere. Sick post!
p spencer

haha! I have the Mobb Deep one still.

anyone have any scans of the covers of XYLENE magazine?…which deserves its own post.
diga

i love it!
http://vancouverslop.com Matt

AMAZING.

I think in tossed mine with all my old hip hop tapes a few years back.

I lived off this mag, The Source, the Crispy Biscuit radio show, Rap City, Guerrillas in the Mix and some mix tapes that I got at Bassix.

oh and ubc soundwar
http://www.muschamp.ca/ Muskie

Hip Hop was better back then, 96 was about the end of my main involvement with Hip Hop. Now it is half pop, half advertising, yeah yeah the underground. It used to be all underground. People looked at you strange when you said Public Enemy was your favourite band.

“Run DMC first said a DJ could be a band”
http://winniecooper.net flores

haha I have all of these in tact along with my Props Magazines. I still flip through them sometimes too…
Boon

Age, we should do a series of Vancity Hip Hop History posts!
Age

Good idea Boon.

hit me up!
http://www.bobkronbauer.com Bob K

I say we take Virus’s cover illustrations and made a collage tribute tee to Elements out of them. We could donate portions of the proceeds to CITR! I think they’re doing as donor drive soon too… or are they in the middle of it right now? Either way, t-shirt? Somebody talk to Virus?
Age

I can talk to Virus. He’s on ichat quite a bit.

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