I think I haven't ever seen a place with people with a lot of knowledge on hip-hop other than Streethop.
I mean I've seen some but they were either dying or full of G-unit fans. We also have fans of modern mainstream hip-hop but they are more mature, they don't flood the board with "ggggg-UnIt 4 life", "iM Da BeSt InTeRneT mC, WhO WaNtS To tExT BatTlE mE" or "dipset bitch is da best".
Except Streethop it's hard to find something good.
You can find better 2pac info on other sites, maybe better 50 cent info on other sites and nothing more, you won't get other things and great community that is here.
SH to be honest is a community board with hip-hop profile.
You can talk about just ANYTHING here and you'll get response. Especially on Hip-hop.
Here I could name at least 10 people with major knowledge and nice own tastes, you can always chat about any new album, discuss somebody's style or how somebody failed etc.
Of course you won't get 100 replies in 5 minutes, you will get 1 or 2 but really on point.
To sum it up I have to add that I've been reading many many forums in life, currently I regularry visit 3 of totally different profiles but the other two I just read for particular info (computer nerd forum and martial arts board)
But what I want to say is that this board is the best international board because of smallest idiot/post ratio.