SOHH

Infobox Website
name = SOHH



caption =
url = http://sohh.com
commercial = Yes
type = Music website
language = English
registration = Optional
owner = 4Control Media
author = Felicia Palmer, Steven Samuel
launch date = 1996
current status = Active
revenue =
slogan = Your favorite hip-hop website's favorite hip-hop website

SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) is a hip hop news website. Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel founded the website in 1996. In 2000, "Rolling Stone" magazine writer Mark Binelli called it the "best overall hip-hop site". [Binelli, Mark (November 17 2000). [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5923324 Hip-Hop Alive and Well on the Web] . "Rolling Stone". Accessed June 17 2008.]

History

Felicia Palmer attended Cornell University to become a veterinarian, but due to the intense science courses, she changed her focus to business management studies. After graduating, she worked for a small licensing firm founded by two young women. She credited her experience there for giving her the motivation to launch SOHH.Jenkins, Jennifer (February 15 2007). [http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/02/14/bhm.felicia.palmer/index.html Taking hip-hop to new heights] . CNN. Accessed June 17 2008.] Her husband, Steven Samuel, was part the rap group, the Troubleneck Brothers, who released their first album, "Fuck All Y'all", in 1992. After leaving the group, Samuel worked as a postal foot messenger in New York. [Freund, Jesse (September 1997). [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.09/chiphop.html Chip Hop] . "Wired" magazine. Accessed June 17 2008.] Palmer and Samuel officially launched the website in 1996. After twelve months, the membership grew to 75,000 people.Brown, Carolyn M. (September 1 2000). [http://www.allbusiness.com/specialty-businesses/minority-owned-businesses/622905-1.html Internetworking] . "Black Enterprise" magazine. Archived on AllBusiness.com. Accessed June 17 2008.] Samuel stated, "We picked up a book on HTML and pretty much figured out how to launch the site in a week". [Park, James (July 2007). [http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2007/july/180498.html In the Groove] . "Entrepreneur" magazine. Accessed June 17 2008.] SOHH began as a magazine, but was changed to a website due to high printing costs. It is the longest running online hip hop community. [ [http://almgroup.net/2006/12/21/marketing-minute-with-almg-featuring-sohhcoms-steven-samuel Marketing Minute with ALMG ... featuring SOHH.com’s Steven Samuel] . ALMG (December 21 2006). Accessed June 17 2008.] The website averages 1.5 million unique visitors a month.

In June 2008, members of the Anonymous group hacked the front page because of a forum dispute. Palmer confirmed that an FBI probe was ongoing, and that each time the website was attacked, data on the suspects was retrieved. She indicated that some attackers were "located within the United States, between the ages of 16-21" and that a few of them were based in Waco, Texas. Initially under the impression that the hackers were pranksters, she came to believe they were "beyond pranksters" and the attack was racist in nature.cite web |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92033455 |title=Hip Hop Sites Attacked by Hate Groups |accessdate=2008-07-19 |last=Chideya |first=Farai |authorlink=Farai Chideya |date=2008-06-30 |format=html |work=News & Notes |publisher=NPR (Radio broadcast)]

References

External links

* [http://www.sohh.com Official website]
*myspace|sohh