AllHipHop

AllHipHop is a hip-hop news website founded by Greg Watkins and Chuck Creekmur in 1998.

AllHipHop

Type of site	Music website
Available in	English
Owner	AHH Holdings LLC
Created by	Greg Watkins Chuck Creekmur
Revenue	US$4 million (as of 2007)[citation needed]
URL	allhiphop.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	1998
Current status	Active

History

The website was founded in 1998 by Greg Watkins and Chuck Creekmur.^[1] In 1997, Watkins registered the allhiphop.com domain to promote the artists on Oblique Recordings, a small record label he operated. The website provided music downloads to promote the label's artists. After reaching 30,000 downloads a month, Watkins struck deals with eMusic and other retailers to sell downloads.

Creekmur, a freelance journalist, had launched a website, tantrum-online, in New York City. After merging the companies, they adapted Trantrum's exclamation point logo for AllHipHop.^[2] By 2004, the business generated enough revenue for Watkins and Creekmur to work full-time on the website. In 2007, the revenue exceeded US$4 million.^[3]

On August 12, 2017, AllHipHop announced a partnership with Maven, a company based in Seattle, to manage its entire digital media platform.^[4]

Figures from May 2008^{[needs update]} show it attracted over 37 million page views a month.^[5]

Accolades

In 2006, AllHipHop won the Rising Stars Award from Black Enterprise magazine.^[6]

Essence magazine dubbed AllHipHop "the CNN of hip-hop" in 2008.^[7]