Soundset Festival

Independent Hip Hop festival at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, MN. - May 29, 2016. | http://soundsetfestival.com

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ZAPATA! PHOTO: Soundset 2016 (Part 2 - Light Leaks)

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5 fresh spins on Soundset as hip-hop fest heads to Minnesota Fairgrounds

As much as Soundset 2016 appears to involve a lot of same-old same-old, Sunday's one-day rap marathon is actually treading a lot of new ground — starting with new digs at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

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Anderson. Paak, Roots, Future, Common Highlight Soundset 2016 (PHOTOS) - Glide Magazine

Soundset Festival returned for a ninth straight year, and moved to a bigger venue at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds this year. With twin main stages and m

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A$AP Rocky from SoundSet ‘16

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Soundset 2016 Pt 3

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Soundset 2016 Pt 1

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Soundset 2016 elevates Minnesota's best music fest even higher

Soundset's ninth year, held at the State Fairgrounds instead of the usual Canterbury Park, was yet again a bustling, diverse, and unique success. The organizers took on the daunting task of selling a hip-hop festival to a wide range of audiences, and crafted a particularly strong line-up that managed to...

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Soundset 2016 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds

Soundset found a new home in its ninth year. After spending the past eight years at Canterbury Park, the nationally renowned hip-hop festival relocated to the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The Rhymesayers-curated lineup again included a solid mix of old-school staples (the Roots, Common), contemporary big-names (A$AP Rocky, Future), buzzy up-and-comers (Anderson .Paak, Post Malone), and beloved...

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A real rockstar at a Hip Hop concert ( @machinegunkelly )! @Soundset 2016  #soundset2016 #younggunner #mgk#laceup 

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5 fresh spins on Soundset as hip-hop fest heads to Minnesota Fairgrounds

As much as Soundset 2016 appears to involve a lot of same-old same-old, Sunday's one-day rap marathon is actually treading a lot of new ground — starting with new digs at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

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State Fair Midway hosts 'best Soundset yet'

It's bigger, easily accessible by mass transit and actually in an urban environment, which seems relevant for a festival dealing exclusively in so-called urban music.

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Photos: The Faces of Soundset 2016 – Go 96.3

Photos by Darin Kamnetz Soundset 2016 will be remembered as the year the festival moved to the...

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Review and photos: Soundset 2016 showcases hip-hop’s great range

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Throwback to the Familia Skateboard Showdown in 2012.

Soundset 2016 will be their sixth year with us! Photo by Kasey Jean

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Throwback Thursday:

Evidence being our guest Instagrammer for Soundset 2014

(Photo by Kevin O’Meara)

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Throwback Thursday:

J.Cole onstage at Soundset 2014.

(Photo by Andres Tardio)

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Throwback Thursday: Caught In The Middle Magazine was the brainchild of Jason "J Bird" Cook and Kevin Beacham, created in collaboration with Boom Design. Our mission was to create a magazine that explored the diversity of Hip Hop, while ignoring the many limitations that were prevalent at the time, such as East VS West, Major VS Indie, Old School VS New School, and so on. The goal was to purposefully curate the best of all those worlds.

A key underlying theme of CITM was to provide a window for the world to view the Chicago Hip Hop scene, which was brimming with a wealth of exceptional talent at that time. We decided early on that we would ignore the trend of putting a popular trending big name artist on the cover and instead, only put Chicago artists on our cover. For our first issue, released in December of 1994, Common Sense was the perfect choice. He was the most recognizable MC representing the city on a global level and he was on the brink of releasing his sophomore album, "Resurrection". This cover is notable for being the first time Common graced a magazine cover in his career.

Now, twenty-one years later, following a continually flourishing and successful career, Common joins us at Soundset 2016. And, though the location is different, we're still caught in the middle...

Magazine Cover Photo by Jason "J-Bird" Cook & Graphics/Logos by Boom Design

Download a free copy: http://bit.ly/CaughtInTheMiddleMag