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Okayplayer.com is a prominent online hip-hop website and community. The group was co-founded by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson as a loose musical collective in 1987, and evolved into an online community in 1999. In 2004, ?uestlove launched Okayplayer Records as a spin-off of the community.

This community is made up of recording artists (who keep their official internet homes there), visitors to the site, and individuals who post on the site's messageboard, the most popular feature of the site. All of the artists and staff, as well as those who post to the site's messageboard, are considered "okayplayers," or "OKPs" for short.

From the Okayplayer website:

okayplayer [noun]

1. "Okayplayer" is the shorthand name for okayplayer.com. Okayplayer is not a record label. Okayplayer.com is an online community. This community is made up of like-minded recording artists (who keep their official Internet homes here) and visitors to the site.

2."Okayplayer" is also, simply, the name of a person who is associated with the site. All of the artists, message board members and staff are okayplayers.

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