Soulja Boy just called himself the first Internet rap star, and it got us thinking about how much the internet has influenced hip hop and R&B.

The internet is the best and the worst thing to ever happen to hip hop and R&B: on the pro side, anybody can do it; and on the con side, anybody can do it.

And that's why this week, The Message celebrates artists who blew up in the internet era. And we'll tell you what happened at the Noname show on Friday night.

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