Cut of the week #1 by @privat. Featuring three hip hop artist on Steem!

Today's features: @termitemusic, @geechidan and @jamesgetsit

New years was a week ago so what better time start a new weekly tradition? I would like to introduce my “Cut of the week” where I will showcase some of the talent found in #thecut or the hip hop community here. This will, hopefully, happen regularly on Mondays!

I will not take any time trying to put my three features in any order or even claim that they made my favorite hip hop on Steem this week. I will simply pick three users that I have something to write about and I will sometimes try to pick ones I haven’t written about before regulars. If you find my perspective in #thecut interesting it gives you a reason to follow me but I also hope that you’ll find reasons to connect with some of my chosen features.

See this as your weekly newsletter from my side of #thecut. I hope this can inspire more to share theirs as well in similar ways because it’s hard to digest everything that’s going on.

If you’re wondering what the cut is I made a post to share some collective thoughts from around this hip hop community. Just click the picture to see our "black paper"! 

Or just keep reading, this post was made to show three, in my opinion, great examples from the cut this week!

1. @termitemusic

I’ve got to start of with @termitemusic! This lo-fi god of world wide cyphers has been the number one reason I’ve kept rapping on Steemit. And thereby even kept me writing in English which I’m enjoying a lot more now. His jam is now on week 16 and going strong. Consider entering if you’re a rapper/singer/scratcher/impressionist or just go their and enjoy his original dope as drugs hip hop music. Support a really good initiative if you can, no one else keeps a regular cypher with their own beats on Steem for all I know!

This week he’s not only hosting the regular world wide cypher but also gave us a complete instrumetal EP for an exclusive Steem download and more! This is some of his best posts this week in my opinion:

• "Calling All MCs and Singers of Earth!!!!" ROUND 16 !!! [ Worldwide Cypher Jam !! ] - His weekly cypher with original beats. Round 16 started yesterday so go check out the beat! I’ll definitely write something for this one!
  
• Tales From the Steem Side. Vol​.​1 (newyear present part.2) 白蚁.- Three days ago he gave av of us a great mashup of the past year for his lo-fi cypher. Get a free download.
  
• VENOM (ep) 白蚁 [ My first new year present to all steemians!!! ] - The first present came five days ago and contained this full instrumental EP free to download exclusively for us on Steem! I’ve already grabbed my copy and started to rap over it. Do the same or just listen to the beats!

2. @geechidan

Self proclaimed best rapper on Steem and you really have to show it to argue with that. He’s been around a bit longer than me here and was a regular on the rap challenge when I joined already! Rumours has it he was the first one referring to “the cut” as the hip hop hang out on Steem.

This week he has been busy not only posting what is probably my favorite verse yet here but also creating a new discord channel especially for #thecut. This is some of my favorite posts by him this week:

• Geechi Dan - Put Ya Fist Up // NEW HiP HoP MuSIC exculsively on STEEMIT
  - Yesterday was a good day! This track by @geechidan was released to the cut and I think it's my favorite one so far. Fight the power! Kind of want to write a second verse for it though..
• Thursday and Friday LIVE DJ in "The Cut" CHANNEL on Discord + GET YOUR MUSIC PLAYED AND HEARD - Four days ago he announced that the discord channel he created only six days ago is giving birth to a radio channel. Check out both post for more detail but if you’re a hip hop head on Steem you definitely have a home now.
  
• Cryptocurrency Can End ALL Record Labels // BREAD AND CHEESE Vlog - Inspiring vlog keeping it real on what he sees for the future of music and cryptocurrency. I always appreciate attempts to communicate these kinds of bigger visions.

3. @jamesgetsit

First seen rapping for Steem only two weeks ago but what else can I say, James gets it! Right of the bat he showed where he wants this community to go and proves his talent by rapping when he’s not vlogging and driving uber. This is a couple of his raps this week that you should check if you missed them:

• DTube EXCLUSIVE - "Anxious?" - STEEMIT RAP CHALLENGE WEEK #20
  - Just today he posted his entry for @rondonson's rap challenge. Dope entry I'm gonna listen to it again after posting this!
• "Powers that be" - Tinfoilraps 1ST Place Winner
  - Due to popular demand he re-uploaded his winning submission earlier this week to Dtube. Well worth the first place, this rap is filled with conspiracy theories delivered beautifully. Please just listen to this one and I think you'll understand why I believe @jamesgetsit is one of our best!
• Cold Sheets - Late night rap session (DTube exclusive) - Another very emotional rap exclusively on the Steem chain! 

All of these have more content so make sure to check out everything on their page as well if you missed something.

That’s all for this week! This was kind of a last minute decision to start doing so sorry if my descriptions are a bit short this time. Please let me know what you think of this kind of updates and what could improve for next week! Until then, peace and love!