Under Siege!

I’m sure by now you heard of the government seizure of Onsmash.com and DaJaz1.com, along with RapGodfathers.com. Not really familiar on RapGodfathers, but Onsmash and Dajaz1 were and are part of the New Music Cartel group of influential hip-hop bloggers that really provided the latest in music and etc.

However, what’s crazy is that Onsmash and DaJaz1 both would for the most part get their music related content directly from the artists, labels and authorized representatives of the artists. And if anything was questionable, it would be removed immediately.

Its kinda crazy because it seems that the U.S. government just seized the domains without any legal fair warning or notification to atleast gives those respective sites a chance to explain themselves and or show paperwork, email chains and etc. It seems that the U.S. government
can & will take over any hip-hop (or music blog really) without any consideration of what the actual blog provides to the community and to its genre. While this music blog shit is all gray area and has been for years, I hope this seizure does FINALLY open some much needed dialog with the record labels, the blog industry and now, the U.S. government. At the very least, correspondence and “some” kind of opportunity for blogs in question to give their side of the stoy is the very least the government and the RIAA can do.

#FreeOnSmash and #FreeSplash

-Dro (The305)

MS.COM-
Yo, that is some scary shit! HTF, are they 'gon to do that there?
WTF? Welcome to the New World Order!
I personally never went on those blogs but I heard of them, and from having my own blog,
I think it's beyond fucked up!  What G*ddamn rights do we have then?
No warning they just snatched & grabbed!
I hope they get back on & are able to keep the brand they done built.
All the fucking problems in this country, and they focus is on this?
Wow! I'm heated right now!


via The305