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By Matthew Shircliffe–
It’s 2016 and the city of Louisville is finally beginning to catch up with the times, musically speaking.
The hip-hop community has been completely boxed out for quite some time now, and even this upcoming July when the Forecastle festival is here, Danny Brown remains the only hip-hop oriented artist involved. But venues like Mercury Ballroom, which opened up in 2014, are bringing talent such as Machine Gun Kelly, Joey Bada$$ and Big K.