Does anybody miss Regionalism in Hip-Hop?

[AAKing23]

I kinda do, I miss the days where certain styles were prominent in certain areas of the country. I think the birth of the internet pretty much killed regionalism due to easy translation of bringing culture from one region to another region almost instantaneously which led to people slowly jacking other people's styles.

Now for the most part everybody sounds the same hence the emergence of the trap sound.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

Yeah. That's what made 90's hip-hop the goat era.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Regionalism is the dumbest shyt and the most forced idea ever , there was never anything called "regionalism" lmao .... Rap just wasn't that big for Big Daddy Kane to sound like Too $hort when he probably didn't grow up with anyone on his black being influenced by Too Short .... Once rap got bigger the idea of " regionalism" was shut down

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Yes. I miss it.

Everyone wanna sound like 3-6 mafia reject or a failed future clone nowadays

 

[Still Benefited]

Yeah,one of the things that killed hiphop the most


I hate the fact you can basically bypass being accepted in your own hood now.....shouldnt matter if you can appeal to a bunch of scattered losers on the innanet.if you cant get hot in your own city,you shouldnt be allowed to procceed in hiphop.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nope

 

[blizzard man]

Regionalism is the dumbest shyt and the most forced idea ever , there was never anything called "regionalism" lmao .... Rap just wasn't that big for Big Daddy Kane to sound like Too $hort when he probably didn't grow up with anyone on his black being influenced by Too Short .... Once rap got bigger the idea of " regionalism" was shut down

its not a forced idea, but as the world becomes more global/connected, regionalism just doesn't happen as much since people have access to so much music from anywhere they want

it was cool when it was like that, you might be too young to have experienced it, but the widening of influences now is cool too.

this is beyond music too. that's just how things were before all the advancements we've made in the last century.

Yeah,one of the things that killed hiphop the most


I hate the fact you can basically bypass being accepted in your own hood now.....shouldnt matter if you can appeal to a bunch of scattered losers on the innanet.if you cant get hot in your own city,you shouldnt be allowed to procceed in hiphop.

i dont fully agree with that, i dont think you should still have to pop off in your own city before you are allowed to move forward. if you can get hot now online and build a following, then more power to you.

i miss the concept of regionalism in that, everyone kinda had their own sonic identity of sorts, and that was a cool identifier. i like being able to hear a song and knowing where its from based off the slang or the production.

that's not as prevalent anymore which sucks, but it hasnt killed the culture, IMO.

i might be in the minority, but i think its dope as fukk that a dude like rich chigga could learn english offa watching tv out in indonesia, get into rap heavy, and now breh is performing at rolling loud.

that woulda never happened before and its a dope story.

but granted you have to take the lame shyt that comes with it too, like wack artists popping up out of nowhere cuz of one song they had on soundcloud or something.

just like earl sweatshirt basically blowing up and he wasnt even around when it happened. that kinda stuff woulda never happened 20 years ago

i like a good origin story for artists, but what bothers me the most about the change in the culture is that the craft itself seems less important than ever. brehs pop off with hot beats and adlibs. i dont need 40 bars of multis, but cmon now

 

[How Sway?]

Regionalism is the dumbest shyt and the most forced idea ever , there was never anything called "regionalism" lmao .... Rap just wasn't that big for Big Daddy Kane to sound like Too $hort when he probably didn't grow up with anyone on his black being influenced by Too Short .... Once rap got bigger the idea of " regionalism" was shut down

Nah you could definitely tell where a rapper was from simply based off of their accent (this still hold true somewhat), their rap style and just the vibe of the beat.

This argument might hold weight when it comes to the 80s tho. It Seems like most regions didnt really developed their own sound untill like the early 90s.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

Yeah,one of the things that killed hiphop the most


I hate the fact you can basically bypass being accepted in your own hood now.....shouldnt matter if you can appeal to a bunch of scattered losers on the innanet.if you cant get hot in your own city,you shouldnt be allowed to procceed in hiphop.

I think the west coast is good about sticking to its roots somewhat. All that dj mustard shyt can go though

 

[dennis roadman]

we hit a point in the late 90s and early 2000s where we had enough access to other regions that some music could get huge somewhere random

scarface, bone, devin were all big in the DC area for whatever reason. their music just connected with the vibe of the area. some musicologist could probably craft a theory around the tempo reverberating with gogo listeners

i listened to all that because they were popular so i was exposed to it, despite never going to texas or ohio. and i was the weird one too, because i had hiero, greg street, esham, and large pro records on the shelf with those records. now that's just standard fare, and it's not even a thing because it's not weird to listen to music from somewhere random when the sound is real similar regardless of region

we're way past the tipping point now, it's kinda boring. kids today dont know what kinda emotions were stirred when we first heard bun b jump on a track right after jay z was done

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

On the real I miss the days where Philly rappers sounded like Philly rappers, ATL did its' thing, and New York still tried to keep their sound. Hell, even Dipset sounded regional despite having a southern crunk influenced sound at times. The issue involving the lack of regional sound is the fact that 80 percent of the game sound like one fukking region, rather than their native sound. I give props to the west coast though, at least they try to keep it Cali and not dikkride the current wave.

 

[I love Latina women]

Yeah, I do. Cause back then nikkas was being more original w/ their shyt instead of hopping on the next nikka's style and sound.

 

[1/2 Man 1/2 Hennessy]

West coast always sound west coast
Sound like East coast and midwest nikkas lawst

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

yep, made music more fun to listen to when everybody wasn't going for the same 2-3 hot producers/sounds of the moment.

bay mob music didn't sound like g-funk
houston sounded different from atl which was different than new orleans which was different from miami bass
ny had the boom bap hitting at the same time the whole jazzy/native tongues thing was going

 

[daboywonder2002]

Yea but now people are scared to use their own slang. The wanna appeal to all the masses.