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The alley outside the Spy Club is still empty. Doors opened at 10 p.m., but as of 10:15, the crowd for the night's "hip-hop kulture" event has not yet arrived. Anticipating their arrival, Louis "Fahim" Smith patrols I Street NW with an armload of paper, strategically placing bright yellow posters on lampposts up and down the block. Fahim (Smith, he says, is his "government name") is co-owner of D.C.-based Ofphspringg Entertainment, a prospering local promotions company. He flacks for major rap acts such as Helter Skelter and the Cocoa Brovaz as well as for the hiphop magazines Double XXL and Rap Pages.
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By Neil Drumming • December 11, 1998
