Ebro(Hot 97) says "NO" to REGIONAL Sounding HipHop

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Man you cant do shyt to those songs but mean mugg with your homeboys and nodd your head.

If you talkin about 90s club songs you can cite Back that ass up, Scrub the Ground, Baby Baby by Kilo, Scarred etc etc...They might not be lyrical masterpieces but it used to have me with my dikk out on the dancefloor grindin on hoes in the late 90s like this

You can do the 2 step thing we did back in the day. You know that dance lons was doing.

What i was just trying to say was its not like you cant do anything to those songs back then. You could at least jump around.

And my wife loves when all those songs come on backspin and she be doing a little 2 step. Women like those songs, they are not undanceable is all im trying to say.

 

[Jone2three45]

"Karma" can also be a group thing just based off of what it means. If a group of people kept doing something, their offspring will feel the effects just based off how life works. Just like if your parents worked hard to be rich you will experience the effects of that even though you didn't work to get those riches.

I guess instead of calling it karma you can call it the "law of cause, and effect"

Thanks,
could not have said it better.

 

[Jone2three45]

...and I agree,
women have a lot to do with this particular situation.

 

[spliz]

Bruh i was up there. Yea the occasional SMASH HIT inescapable song would pop up and get play, but have u ever heard Big Mike, UGK, 8 ball, Luke, Tela, etc etc on the radio during the golden era of hip hop? fukk no. Every ny nikka would say " i dont fux with the south dun except outkast and goodie, and i dont fux with the west except for Snoop" etc etc. There was always the occasional person, but NY and up north radio was 95% regional in the mid to late 90s

No it wasn't...Make Em Say Ugh came out in like 97 g..and No Limit was everywhere...3.6.Mafia had they shyt wit Tear The Club Up....I was born n raised here...son I can go further and name plenty more songs..there WAS regional bias...but not on the level like nikkas make it..that was mostly some hatin ass DJ's and magazines for the most part...but the PEOPLE??..NOPE...they was more partial to NY artists..but if ya shyt was hot it got love for the most part...ALL that shyt I named got play and then some...and where the fukk was u at that Luke ain't get love up here?...shyt..nikkas even showed love to Tag Team and Quad City Dj's n shyt..what u sayin is false g...Geto Boys got love...etc etc..son..how u think cats like Bone thugs ended up on Biggie album?..or Twista ended up on Puff Daddy and The Family album?..son u either lyin..only fukked wit shyt ya crew fukked wit..or just straight up don't remember...

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Thats not true.. Shook Ones, quiet storm, ice cream, i can go on, most of the 90s stuff is hard and very danceable.

:weazle:

Yousa damn lie

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Bruh i was up there. Yea the occasional SMASH HIT inescapable song would pop up and get play, but have u ever heard Big Mike, UGK, 8 ball, Luke, Tela, etc etc on the radio during the golden era of hip hop? fukk no. Every ny nikka would say " i dont fux with the south dun except outkast and goodie, and i dont fux with the west except for Snoop" etc etc. There was always the occasional person, but NY and up north radio was 95% regional in the mid to late 90s

I grew up in NYC and heard of 8 Ball, Luke, UGK

nikkas in NYC fukked w/Death Row, Bone Thugs, Outkast etc. Obv not like NY artists, but then were nikkas in ATL rocking w/Nas? Yousa lie bro

 

[spliz]

I grew up in NYC and heard of 8 Ball, Luke, UGK

nikkas in NYC fukked w/Death Row, Bone Thugs, Outkast etc. Obv not like NY artists, but then were nikkas in ATL rocking w/Nas? Yousa lie bro

Exactly..

 

[up in here]

I think alot of the NY backlash actually comes from West Coast not getting love during the 80s, but by the 90s every region was getting some love in NY. Its just that it was easier for them to promote local artists and arrange shows and interviews with local MCs simply because of geography. But if there were breakthrough artists from other regions they got love. I remember alot of West Coast and Southern artists getting front page of The Source, which was a NY based magazine.

I remember Juvenile saying he was surprised when he started doing shows in NY because the whole crowd was rocking with him and knew the words to his songs. This was in the late 90s. I never really thought the NY elitism was entirely accurate, at least not during the 90s.

 

[deeznutz]

This Ebro guy is a fakkit

 

[ryshy]

Its just a product of this generation

People these days do their own thing instead of drawing inspiration from those around them. Asap rocky, he made his own houston inspired sound. Many say he ripped it off completely but his sound is more cloud rap and darker emotional type production, instead of the traditional houston sound. But yea people do what they want now, switching styles and making music too mainstream to be identifiable by region.

Southern "trap" music has taken over hip hop too, to the point where nearly every track has trap influence.

Its not that people hate regional muusic by nature, its just that that regional type of music has to appeal to people, like chicago trap. And no one cares about regional pride now, for many reasons.

 

[TheJet]

It's spiritual payback.

I believe what you put out, comes back to you, and NYC was on some other shyt when it came to other regions. We really loved smelling our own shyt, but we shytted on other people. This wasn't even just in music, but regular people who left NYC to live other places. We would talk about how NYC is better, and shyt on the place we were at, and built up hate towards us. A lot of people LOVED New Yorkers, and wanted to please us, but our egos fukked that up, and now we are seeing the payback.

But honestly, what if the music was inferior? You can't expect me to embrace snap music when Ghost is dropping the Pretty Toney album

 

[spliz]

I think alot of the NY backlash actually comes from West Coast not getting love during the 80s, but by the 90s every region was getting some love in NY. Its just that it was easier for them to promote local artists and arrange shows and interviews with local MCs simply because of geography. But if there were breakthrough artists from other regions they got love. I remember alot of West Coast and Southern artists getting front page of The Source, which was a NY based magazine.

I remember Juvenile saying he was surprised when he started doing shows in NY because the whole crowd was rocking with him and knew the words to his songs. This was in the late 90s. I never really thought the NY elitism was entirely accurate, at least not during the 90s.

exactly..the shyt was extremely exaggerated and still is...I remember clearly what was bein fukked wit in the 90s...and my history growin up on this hip hop shyt..

 

[How Sway?]

Thats not true.. Shook Ones, quiet storm, ice cream, i can go on, most of the 90s stuff is hard and very danceable.

You gotta be kidding me.

"shook ones" is arguably one of the least danceable songs ever created in music! LMAO

Just imagine some bytches in the club trying to grind or bounce they're asses to that song?? Forreal, just imagine that shyt for a sec. and realize how goofy that would look


And I don't ever think hip hop will get away from "Southern" influences. What I mean is Rap music, especially what's being played on the radio or in the clubs, will always have some kind bass and hi hats.

Unless rappers start rapping on dubstep or house beats

 

[Rominati]

Thats not true.. Shook Ones, quiet storm, ice cream, i can go on, most of the 90s stuff is hard and very danceable.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

fukk radio

i listened to the radio yesterday for the first time in years and they are still on the same bs that made me stop checking for em

10 same fukking songs all day

again fukk radio