Brehs, is it just that NYC rappers are just fukking lazy?

[MegaTronBomb!]

Seems like they're the only region as a whole that does not treat their profession.... like a real job.

All the other excuses ( NYC has no sound, stuck in a time warp, no unity, etc.) are far less valid than this.

If any average NYC rapper had the work ethic of a Boosie,Migos,Plies or a Yo Gotti...they'd be the biggest thing ever.

Fabolous is probably the biggest example of this shyt....got the work ethic of fukking Jay Electronica, but stays in the club and taking the jersey game to levels nobody will ever reach


instead of working, they're on twitter wanting to know if you'd rather have a retarded son, or a gay son for years.

it's really gotten to the point that their output is so low, i can't even shyt on them anymore




If these dudes stopped being lazy, and quit believing they should be handed things simply cause they're NYC rappers..... where would they be?


let's discuss

 

[Wild self]

The problem came from the early 90s where labeled coddled extraordinary talent and and catered to their needs. That's why the older MCs of that era, outside of a KRS, Rakim, or a Big Daddy Kane, we're as long as they dropped a dope project once every 2 to 4 years. That's why selling CD out of kinkos and back of their trunk was a foreign concept outside of old Rocafella for most NY rappers. Method Man and Jadakiss, when they first came into the game said that rappers only recorded and toured 6 months of the year and chilled for the other 6 months...until DMX came in and Hov started dropping platinum albums annually.

Those rappers always ran to the labels because they were more focused on quality than hustle. Back when labels were profitable.

Now, cats gotta work 24/7, tour like mad, drop mixtures and projects like it ain't nothing, to keep up with that ADD social media lifestyle that the south laid the blueprint on. With a 360 deal.

That's why the older NYC rappers have a hard time adjusting to these times of the digital era.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

The problem came from the early 90s where labeled coddled extraordinary talent and and catered to their needs. That's why the older MCs of that era, outside of a KRS, Rakim, or a Big Daddy Kane, we're as long as they dropped a dope project once every 2 to 4 years. That's why selling CD out of kinkos and back of their trunk was a foreign concept outside of old Rocafella for most NY rappers. Method Man and Jadakiss, when they first came into the game said that rappers only recorded and toured 6 months of the year and chilled for the other 6 months...until DMX came in and Hov started dropping platinum albums annually.

Those rappers always ran to the labels because they were more focused on quality than hustle. Back when labels were profitable.

Now, cats gotta work 24/7, tour like mad, drop mixtures and projects like it ain't nothing, to keep up with that ADD social media lifestyle that the south laid the blueprint on. With a 360 deal.

That's why the older NYC rappers have a hard time adjusting to these times of the digital era.

To be fair, every region had to adjust to an extent to how fast the rap world currently moves.... but it really seems like these NYC rappers just simply don't want to work.

If they treated rapping like a 9-5, there really would be no excuses.

Fabolous still hasn't found a studio to reply back to Kendricks control verse

 

[Wild self]

To be fair, every region had to adjust to an extent to how fast the rap world currently moves.... but it really seems like these NYC rappers just simply don't want to work.

If they treated rapping like a 9-5, there really would be no excuses.

Fabolous still hasn't found a studio to reply back to Kendricks control verse

Problem is, the major labels are in front of their doorstep. They spend more time crafting bars than pushing the product, because they still have that old mentality that if you nice = you entitled to a million dollar record deal. So they rather go to the labels and let the labels push them instead.

 

[MrPentatonic]

I think it's lazyness.

They got a long history of guys who built their shyt up off mixtapes but these recent up n comers ain't got the hunger to do that.

I was recently checking for young ny nikkas and a lot of them ain't got nearly enough tracks out, some don't even have a mixtape.
Check for all the young dudes with 100k-350k views on a video without a mixtape. Being honest it's troy ave that's probably working the hardest and he ain't even a youngin really lol

I hope them milly rock dudes follow up on their track but seeing how ny kids move I dunno

Gs9 were hungry but they got locked up real quick

 

[newarkhiphop]

I think you on to something

 

[HoldThisL]

Taking this advice breh

 

[The God Poster]

@Wild self is correct. It's not they lazy just never adjusted. Lloyd Banks is the poster child. He himself said he just wants to make music nothing else

 

[th_412]

The problem came from the early 90s where labeled coddled extraordinary talent and and catered to their needs. That's why the older MCs of that era, outside of a KRS, Rakim, or a Big Daddy Kane, we're as long as they dropped a dope project once every 2 to 4 years. That's why selling CD out of kinkos and back of their trunk was a foreign concept outside of old Rocafella for most NY rappers. Method Man and Jadakiss, when they first came into the game said that rappers only recorded and toured 6 months of the year and chilled for the other 6 months...until DMX came in and Hov started dropping platinum albums annually.

Those rappers always ran to the labels because they were more focused on quality than hustle. Back when labels were profitable.

Now, cats gotta work 24/7, tour like mad, drop mixtures and projects like it ain't nothing, to keep up with that ADD social media lifestyle that the south laid the blueprint on. With a 360 deal.

That's why the older NYC rappers have a hard time adjusting to these times of the digital era.

This is pretty much spot on....to be fair though, it would be hard for a regular person to go from making 80k a year working 40 hours a week to making 40k a year working 80 hours a week, which is essentially what happened in the rap game the last 10-15 years.

So you can call that laziness or maybe they just looking at it like the juice might not be worth the squeeze, so to speak.

 

[Mook]

Dipset used to drop mixtwpes like crazy. These new nikkas ain't shyt .

 

[NotaPAWG]

Not lazy, a lot of them work hard. It just seems they never adjusted with the times.

tRoy ave a perfect example, he straight up said a year ago or so he doesn't care about playing shows outside NY and gaining a following outside NY cause NY is the epi-center or whatever, he thinks he should purely blow up just cause he's a NY rapper sounding like a NY rapper in the 2010s.

Like they think just having bars and 90s beats = they should be on

That's not how shyt works these days. There's a small market today for people who really care about that compared to the youth & people under a certain age who don't care where you're from or "regional sounds" as long as they feel the MUSIC is "good".

IE: ASAP Rocky. People complained he hit the south but that didn't stop him from blowing up and people across the globe fukking with his music.

 

[LOOPY]

Troy Ave is the hardest working ny rapper out right now. When it comes to music and mixtapes he matches his predecessors in terms of volume. (Whether he is good or not is subjective)

That's why it's no surprise he has had at least one local hit every year for the past 4 years.

His work ethic is similar to that of the migos

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Fab puts out 1-2 projects a year though

What is this thread even about really?

 

[Maschine_Man]

NY rappers feel entitled becuase they are from NY.

Just like most ppl from NY. They think that just because they are from NY they are the center of the unverse and everyone should just flock to them.

naw...

 

[Wild self]

@Wild self is correct. It's not they lazy just never adjusted. Lloyd Banks is the poster child. He himself said he just wants to make music nothing else

Many of the 90s rappers just want to spit I'll bars, not be on that Master P shyt about hustling out the trunk, mass appeal to thots in the club, and so on and anything but the quality itself. It's easier to make sub par to trash material and push it like it's great just because of the beat.