Older HipHop Forums?

I mainly used RB. But bboys had the best text battle league. Rapverse was always the off brand version of this site. Rapmusic was cool. Man, I never thought these sites would fail to keep up with the times but based on my searches today it looks like text really did die. It had so much potential to keep growing. I hope it can be revived but the forum style is kind of ancient. Plus how can it come back if every site that still exists doesn't allow new members to register?

netcees is the same way. soon as you register, you’re given a prompt that an administrator has to approve your account for posting. only problem is the admins will look right at your pm asking for permissions and ignore it.

registration gets turned off from time to time to control bots and bad actors