You're naming a few, and the change started in 1997. Before that there wasn't much love for artist from other regions like that. I remember the source shytting on a lot of southern, and west coast artist, funkmasterflex dissing west coast, and mack 10 coming for his ass. Why do you think the westside connection was formed, and the disses they had were about? Outkast, and goodie mob complaining on the radio about being booed at the New Music Seminar in 1993/1994, and the source awards, scarface talked about the ghetto boys being booed at the same seminar in the early '90's.
From what I remember, NYC only liked artist when the artist became big all over the country, and went "pop", but when they were popping on a smaller level, they got no love for the most part. Yeah some liked them, but the average didn't, UNTIL that southern sound started gaining props. From what I can tell it wasn't like that in some of the south until we started hating so much, and definitely not on the west coast.
An example is tag teams "whoop there is it" that you gave. I remember that song being a hit all throughout the south before NYC even thought of playing it, once it started gaining notoriety, then I heard it on the radio. Another is luke, like you gave. His hit with "I wanna rock" got play in NYC when it came out, but luke was bumping before that, and after that, but no love in NYC. "Scarred" was the shyt, but NYC wasn't playing it. Same for "raise the roof". shyt when 2 live crew was selling platinum, you didn't really hear their songs on the mixshows on kiss or wbls.
Yeah, NYC started giving love in the late 90's, but it was too late, and even then they were still hating on the low. Remember in the mid 2000's when the south started really gaining in popularity, particularly Atlanta, and people
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were hating on the south talking about how they were going to "bring NYC back"
. You think the south didn't take offense to that?. Even Ludacris rocked a shirt stating "Hip Hop isn't dead, it lives in the south" at the B.E.T. Hip Hop awards when Nas came out with "Hip Hop is dead". I agree with both of them actually. Nas meant the culture of Hip Hop, and Ludacris meant the music making money, and growing.
Ice Cube let it be known on this shyt:
WC feat. Ice Cube and Mack 10 - West up!! - YouTube
"Now I got ta show you how the West coast rocks No razor blades, in my mouth, just a glock And I'm hittin you up, with that W-S The sun, rises in the East, but it sets in the West No gold teeth, you gets a wreath So hand me the goodies, stockin mask, no hoodies Christmas day, I'm in a tre While some of you nikkaz got the robe reindeer and a sleigh We don't call it five-oh, we call it one time It's my life my life my life my life, in the sunshine! One nine weighs a ton How the fukk you think that the West was won? Now shyt can be squashed over a forty ounce of backwash No jokes, the land of locs and hundred spokes In the East, we can be brothers But when you come to L.A., watch your motherfukkin colors West Up! nikka
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
, but cats liked that iww. They liked that purple tape too. They liked certain up top songs because down in the A they played everything. Outkast formed out of a love of tribe called quest and souls of mischief. ATL was heavily influenced by the Bay Area in the 90s as well as florida and Tennessee. It was a melting pot of styles and culture when i first moved down this place. Their version of Hot 97 pumped ny music along with west coast and southern shyt damn near equally