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Urban Exposé was an anonymously run website that appeared in 2000 that gained notoriety for covering the urban entertainment industry. It broke first-run stories during a period of intense investment into urban media web sites, magazines, music, movies and TV shows by venture capitalist. The articles were written in a witty acerbic style and compared favorably with Spy Magazine by the media.

The site also garnered a huge following for developing a comment section full of vituperative revealing messages about executives and employees at a wide range of urban entertainment companies. Print and web magazines and newspapers in NY put reporters on the beat to find the elusive editor-in-chief who used the pen name Crispus Attucks. The creator and writer of the website revealed himself in 2001 to be John Threat, a former computer hacker and writer / director. The site became defunct in 2001.