News: VIBE Magazine Shuts Down

The institution known to the print media world as VIBE Magazine will officially be shutting down. In a statement that is supposed to come today or tomorrow the Magazine is scheduled to make this grim fact known to the world.

The publication was started back in 1993 by Quincy Jones and it holds a warm place in this bloggers heart. If you grew up in my generation, than VIBE always should've been considered your 2nd best Hip-Hop mag next to The Source.

VIBE was known as one of the most viable and reliable Hip-Hop authorities in it's hay day and their countless number of classic covers and time-honored interviews are burned into my mind forever...Damn shame what it's become lately....

In 2006 The Wicks Group took over the mag and successfully re-worked it from being a serious, respectable Hip-Hop, R&B and urban lifestyle mag to being some sort of teeny bopperish, Pop music crazed, trend rag that rarely garnered my attention or the attention of anyone over the age of 16.

-BIG D O