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Tour CD from Galapagos4’s SPRING4WARD Tour in 2005. The SPRING4WARD tour paired emcees Mestizo and Offwhyte with producers Kip Killagain and Mike Gao. The tour took the crew through the Southwest and West Coast before finishing in the Pacific Northwest.

(from XLR8R):

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Tour CD from Galapagos4’s SPRING4WARD Tour in 2005. The SPRING4WARD tour paired emcees Mestizo and Offwhyte with producers Kip Killagain and Mike Gao. The tour took the crew through the Southwest and West Coast before finishing in the Pacific Northwest.

(from XLR8R):

"We’re trying to bring back actual intelligence and reality to [hip-hop]," says Jeff Kuglich, owner and president of Chicago-based label Galapagos 4. Kuglich started the imprint in 1999 with little but a clearly articulated mission: to preserve the integrity of hip-hop music. Sure, it smacked of fresh-from-college idealism, but Kuglich, who was then 22, somehow managed to express his high-minded vision without pretension or arrogance. And after six years of hacking away at the music industry, Kuglich’s devotion to hip-hop culture is still so earnest it’s damn near admirable."