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Lol probably less than 10% dress like that out here. May not be on top musically but NYC will always be on top when it comes to fashion period
Charlemagne Tha God speaking real on why NY rappers are not winning right now . . . this can also ap
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Lol probably less than 10% dress like that out here. May not be on top musically but NYC will always be on top when it comes to fashion period
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I think you make some good points here.
I have heard people say NY needs to get away from the boom bap for one which is ridiculous. However you point about NY rappers rapping on Southern beats with Southern flares etc is spot on and that right there is the problem. Talib Kweli said it best when he posed the question as to when NY rappers were going to stop rapping over southern beats?
No disrespect to the South and their music at all but that is not the NY sound. Clearly artists have been going for that sound because thats what they believe the masses want to hear on the radio and if they make music that is authentic to their region then they won't get played on the radio.
There are progressive NY sounds out there. Joey did it on his last mixtape Summer Knights which had a way more progressive NY sound than his first mixtape and so did The Underachievers on their first project (ironically on their latest project the rhymed almost exclusively over Trap Beats). Action Bronson who I have seen mentioned in this thread is another person as well who I believe is progressing the NY sound.
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While dudes still bicker about the relevancy of NY hip hop...dudes from other regions are moving along at a brisk pace which further leaves NY in the dust.
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Some of you seem to be talking about production and others rapping.
There are no Marley Marl, Bomb Squad, Premo, Pete Rock, Diamond, Buckwild, RZA or Havoc in New York now. They were the New York sound. That's the "sound". Producers aren't the same anymore, because anybody can do it. So the shelf life is short like rappers. Now producers have a sound, it gets used up and thrown away. That's why Just and Timbaland have had to keep reinventing themselves. Most producers now aren't talent enough to do that. The biggest difference now and in the 90's is the production has changed. It's moved out of the streets and in to the clubs.
That Action Bronson "sound" is Harry Fraud, Alchemist(even though he's from Cali) or whoever else he decides to work with. The same with Meyhem and AG.
I'm not sure why dudes act like Action Bronson is doing something brand new, original and different.
Dudes get one name and keep repeating it over and over like it's the new fad.
There are no Marley Marl, Bomb Squad, Premo, Pete Rock, Diamond, Buckwild, RZA or Havoc in New York now. They were the New York sound. That's the "sound". Producers aren't the same anymore, because anybody can do it. So the shelf life is short like rappers. Now producers have a sound, it gets used up and thrown away. That's why Just and Timbaland have had to keep reinventing themselves. Most producers now aren't talent enough to do that. The biggest difference now and in the 90's is the production has changed. It's moved out of the streets and in to the clubs.
That Action Bronson "sound" is Harry Fraud, Alchemist(even though he's from Cali) or whoever else he decides to work with. The same with Meyhem and AG.
I'm not sure why dudes act like Action Bronson is doing something brand new, original and different.
Dudes get one name and keep repeating it over and over like it's the new fad.
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Aside from being Puerto Rican, what does Joell and pun have in common?
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Oh look another thread to bash the NY rappers again 
yaaaaaaaa everybody from other regions please join in the fun and vent your frustrations.
No 1 state is running hip hop anymore the Internet and other technology put that **** to rest awhile ago so there is really no argument about which STATE is winning. Now if you wanna lump 5/6 states together and claim they're winning that's an entirely different argument.
We get it NY days of rappers puffing out there chests because they're from NY like its an advantage are long gone.
Please name a state in the u.s. that runs hip hop
, some may have an artist or two doing it big but they're far from RUNNING anything.
yaaaaaaaa everybody from other regions please join in the fun and vent your frustrations. No 1 state is running hip hop anymore the Internet and other technology put that **** to rest awhile ago so there is really no argument about which STATE is winning. Now if you wanna lump 5/6 states together and claim they're winning that's an entirely different argument.
We get it NY days of rappers puffing out there chests because they're from NY like its an advantage are long gone.
Please name a state in the u.s. that runs hip hop
, some may have an artist or two doing it big but they're far from RUNNING anything.
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WRONG. THE INTERNET IS THE BIGGEST. BELIEVE THAT
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Not sure how you can say they are original but then say they sound like people from the past.......
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*****!!! Where is the reinvention in ATL?
Outkast my *****??? Where have you been & do I need to continue w/examples?
Janelle Monea, BOB....You can't be serious with that statement.
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In thinking about it....when discussing ______
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Oh look another thread to bash the NY rappers again
No 1 state is running hip hop anymore the Internet and other technology put that **** to rest awhile ago so there is really no argument about which STATE is winning. Now if you wanna lump 5/6 states together and claim they're winning that's an entirely different argument.
We get it NY days of rappers puffing out there chests because they're from NY like its an advantage are long gone.
Please name a state in the u.s. that runs hip hop
That's been my point.
Rap is spread out and is no longer regional. Probably the hottest rapper is from Toronto.
The biggest "new" rapper is Macklemore from Washington.
It's not even the late 90's when you had Cash Money and No Limit dropping album after album monthly. No Limit dropped albums like Nike drops Jordan retros.
or when Houston, had Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Lil Flip, Chamillionare all poppin.
Rap has a few main artist, and a bunch of fly by night rappers you won't care about in a year or two.
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Janelle Monae and BOB are rap?
And didn't Janelle Monae and BOB both move the same way J Cole or Cudi did?
Outkast, that's the 90's. Have you read any of the discussion or did you just skim it?
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Converse starting with the original basketball sneaker...
See how the era changes?
See how the era changes?
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and Chuck Taylor's are timeless like lyricism
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But that's dead. I love the 90's early 00's like you my man.
It hurt me when it died too...
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The rap game ain't missing NY anyway sooooo is there really a problem??
