It was just another Facebook group to acquaint emcees, producers and like minds with themselves and give life to the seemingly dead or dying hip hop community. Basically you would find beats, videos and even links to the important materials that needed to be heard. Some did it just to sharpen their tools and some did it to get support for their craft.

On one of those days, the producer known to some as Black Intelligence instigated a drive and he did by saying 'what are we all doing leaning back like Fat Joe? An Underground Railroad mixtape should be in the works by now'. And with these words, the foetus was formed and the pregnancy grew till the actual tape was born.

Producers put up beats and rappers picked their desired choice to create the music you heard on the tape. Not all the recorded materials made the cast list as some were horribly recorded that mixing couldn't even save them and some just were a disappointment to the producers and the emcees failed to do justice to the instrumentals. So if you did submit your raps an didn't find it on the finished material then you should know it was owing to one of this e two reasons. The possible third would be you didn't make the deadline.

In spite of the chaos, the finished product is one you cannot but appraise giving the the circumstances around the recording and the mixing down to the selection. Some emcees had something to prove and they did whilst others simply did what they are known for. I will call this unselfish rap because it isn't targeted at the pockets of the rap loving fans but at their support for true hip hop and hopefully materials like this one would continually manufacture itself to create the needed space for true hip hop. The  T.U.R.N. is here and hopefully there will be a subsequent one which will be much better than this one.