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

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Wild self said:
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 :manny: 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. :martin:

That's why the older NYC rappers have a hard time adjusting to these times of the digital era.
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That's poignant. Quality over quantity. You have rappers nowadays dropping the same Mixtapes 3-4 times in one year. The work ethic of Southern artist are GREAT. But the product is mediocre. Not bad, just mediocre. But we're so hungry for content, that we don't care about the quality of the next mixtape. We just get excited that they're about to drop another one. We're basically a generation of Hype Beast.

"Futcha's dropping another mixtape ?:krs:" *Doesn't care that it sounds like the last one*
 
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That's poignant. Quality over quantity. You have rappers nowadays dropping the same Mixtapes 3-4 times in one year. The work ethic of Southern artist are GREAT. But the product is mediocre. Not bad, just mediocre. But we're so hungry for content, that we don't care about the quality of the next mixtape. We just get excited that they're about to drop another one. We're basically a generation of Hype Beast.

"Futcha's dropping another mixtape ?:krs:" *Doesn't care that it sounds like the last one*
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Exactly. That's why I respect Cole and Kendrick a lot more. They don't give into that hype machine. They dropped solid projects that people still play over and over again.

Cats these days are overworking, but their product has no legs for replayability and cause their fanbase to go :ehh: instead of :gladbron: on a project.
 
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Banks, fab, kiss...yeah i see what u getting at...


but some of it is that nyc actully has dudes who give a fukk about quality
 
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