Does the South's reign in rap have more to do with the culture of the USA than the culture of NY?

[LEEeveryday]

Someone told me the south is running rap now due to how slow people in the south have advanced intellectually...

....... It's mad insulting, but I was wondering if that slave mentality is more prevalent down south. People always joke about it. It's just interesting to critically think about.

 

[Matta]

The South rap reign has more to do with the culture of the USA than it is of NY, the south music is more so about partying and getting a vibe, where as "NY RAP" has more to do with the actual lyrics.

 

[JBoy]

I think it's pretty simply a matter of just general demo trends tbh, the South has about 26-28 million of the country's 46-48 million blacks and rapid growth in the South's economy in the 90's followed by the largest expansion of the South's black population since the Pre Civil War period and it's not shocking that the South became much more relevant pretty quickly
music pretty often follows greater trends in society and this case wasn't any different

 

[3rdWorld]

The South represents the dumbing down of America and general laziness..the two go hand in hand so identify with each other.

 

[H.I.M.]

The South rap reign has more to do with the culture of the USA than it is of NY, the south music is more so about partying and getting a vibe, where as "NY RAP" has more to do with the actual lyrics.

Except When BIG, Jay & Fif were at or near the top of the rap game...almost all of their singles were about "PARTY & BULLshyt"...smoking, drinking and fukkin hoes

Even back when LL & Run-DMC ran the NY scene...wasn't a whole lot of lyrical depth in their songs.

 

[H.I.M.]

The South represents the dumbing down of America and general laziness..the two go hand in hand so identify with each other.

Not a fan of Soul, Funk, Blues, Jazz and classic R&B are we? If so...can you tell me what region of the country these genre's were created at?

 

[H.I.M.]

The truth is the new audience, white teens, southern rap is more "entertaining" to them.

I wouldn't call them new but they're pushing the culture at the moment. How many of them were fans of Rakim, KRS, Nas & Public Enemy? Not many I imagine because that's when hip hop catered to the Black experience & most Black people no matter the hood could relate to them because of that.

Edit: I meant to add that white people relate to the message being pushed now by southern rap: partying, being drugged up, & liking that ignorance

Whites have been the predominate consumer in hip-hop since about the late 80's...on a mainstream level, labels have been catering towards the taste of the white consumer for about 30 years now.

"Record label executives began to define the primary hip hop audience as white, suburban, wealthy, teenagers who, since 1991,have been estimated to purchase between 60 to 80 percent of all hip hopmusic" (Kitwana 2005:82, Sullivan 2003).
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http://www.academia.edu/428185/THE_...P_MUSIC_HAS_INFLUENCED_WHITE_RACIAL_ATTITUDES

 

[blackslash]

The South represents the dumbing down of America and general laziness..the two go hand in hand so identify with each other.

U should be negged to oblivion for this post and I live in ny

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The South represents the dumbing down of America and general laziness..the two go hand in hand so identify with each other.

The South is the roots of all major American music (both black and white american) and basically the source that fed most global pop music





....if not for the American south, music as we know wouldn't exist

 

[Prince Mongo]

Someone told me the south is running rap now due to how slow people in the south have advanced intellectually...

....... It's mad insulting, but I was wondering if that slave mentality is more prevalent down south. People always joke about it. It's just interesting to critically think about.

You need to stop getting retarded ass opinions from the internet and get out the house. Where do you dumb ass nikkas come up with this bullshyt?

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

totally agree.

Although NYC is the opposite of insular imo. If anything, everywhere else is insular. NYC is the world in one city. Can't really say the same about any other city in the US.

California the world in one state. It's also insular here

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

West coast problem was the Same sound for years. Ny is biting the south right now. West is making a comeback. But hip hop is all about radio play and major labels. South got more major labels and get more radio play based on they songs. Sales don't matter anymore. I see ny coming back through designer badass and shmurda style. Which is a bite of the south

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

New York City just isn't admired to the rest of the country like it was in the 90s. They had a lot of diverse, unique talented artist that you had to respect and listen to. They pretty much told us how NYC was and the culture, it was fascinating. The terms and slang. Dudes like me didn't know what a bodega was. NYC seemed like a different world to us. NYC use to get all of the latest fashions first, set all the trends. Not anymore, they're followers now. The culture in NYC has changed and it's not as interesting. How can a new artist from NYC make NYC culture seem more interesting than Nas did? Than Prodigy did? DMX, Hov, the Lox, AZ, Fab? Dipset? Maybe NYC had too much diverse talent back then. Maybe they gave all NYC had to offer?

New Orleans is the same way on a smaller scale. The city just isn't what it was before Katrina. That feel is gone. No way in hell can another artist expose you to New Orleans the way B.G did. You can never create that feeling of when 400 Degreez dropped. The culture down here has change.

America as a whole was way different in the 90s and before the internet blow up. Back then you wanted to know a lot more about your favorite artist background. Now, I could care less about where Ross is from. I don't care to know what Miami is like. I just want good music. But back in the 90s. I want to see what Nas and Big was rapping about. I had to read their articles in Source, Vibe and XXL. You wanted to know what shoes and gear they was rocking.


Music was waaayyy more concentrated than. Now someone has added too much water in this game.

This is spot on. Everything had to come through NY first back in the day. I remember back before New Era fitteds were a common thing Yankees were the only team caps that I saw in a whole bunch of different colors and styles. Coming to school in 97-98 with different color Yankee fitteds/skull hats/ski hats nikkas were . Stuff like different color Timbs were hard to come by outside the tri-state.... But the internet and social media took all their exclusivity away, and the rest of the country caught up. NYC wasn't the man anymore, plus A LOT of people got tired of years of New Yorkers arrogance in their cities as well. It's like the bully's victims grew up to be his size finally and aren't trying to go back to being bullied

 

[MarloStanTrill]

Out b4 everyone hates on my city because we getting $$$$$ down here

 

[ThaRealness]

This post is pure insight man

Ive always considered east coast hip hop the realest shyt, cause it helps me stay focused on the day-to-day grind. its universal.
Southern hip hop and car culture though.... I fukk with it

Same with west coast hip hop