I'll give you If I Could Change and I Miss My Homies @letti cook
The others weren't hits.
The others weren't hits.
During the 90's did the South have more lyrical/content driven HIT SINGLES than any other region?
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letti cook
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i know that, just posting for the fact that people overlook that Nolimit would drop these type of songs as LEAD singles and have albums with 3 or 4 joints like that. And those songs actually got played on the radio and video stations down here. 90s southern rap was just on some other shyt. That's why Pimp C died complaining about the lack of social commentary in the new generation. In the 90s they rapped about bullshyt but they would at least back door it with some real shyt here and there.
Half of these songs weren't commercial hits and the other half weren't lyrical. Lost Boyz, Black Star & Pete Rock and CL Smooth aren't commerically successful groups nor were any of those songs they had "hits" Read the thread title and the OP.
If you put a song like "i'll be missing you" i might as well had P's "I Miss my Homies" in the OP.
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OP used examples of only 3 different camps and tried to act like the whole region was like that 
Renee charted to number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cell Therapy Charted at 39
Git Up Git Out Charted at number 58 on the Rap/R&B Charts. T.R.O.Y charted at 58 on the Billboard Hot 100
A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die Charted at 69 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop singles chart. Definition Charted at 60 on Billboard Hot 100
Elevators Charted at 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Doo Wop (That Thing) Charted to number ONE on the Billboard Hot 100
OP used examples of only 3 different camps and tried to act like the whole region was like that
Reading is fundamental...
Thread is about commercially successful groups that had hit songs with a certain consistent theme in content.
These are the majority of the most commercially successfull groups to come out the south thru MOST of the 90's.
Who am i missing?
Who else from the South was really popping nationwide through 96?OP used examples of only 3 different camps and tried to act like the whole region was like that
BmoreGorilla
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Your missing no one which makes your whole thread fraudulent. You tried to say the south had deeper music when it clearly didn't . I'm about to body your threadReading is fundamental...
Thread is about commercially successful groups that had hit songs with a certain consistent theme in content.
These are the majority of the most commercially successfull groups to come out the south thru MOST of the 90's.
Who am i missing?
BmoreGorilla
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No one and that's why this thread shouldn't have been made. KRS One and Public Enemy were far from the only east coast acts making meaningful music
to Da South lyrical content Era
so let me get this shyt straight
u are giving credit to pac, cube, short, spice, geto boyz, face, 8ball..... etc...etc... for having 1 or 2 socially conscience songs
YET
your excluding (the greatest pool) of mc's/rappers ei. biggie, jay, nas, wu, red, mobb.... etc...etc... for having dem same socially conscience 1 or 2 cuts off their album
Renee charted to number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cell Therapy Charted at 39
Git Up Git Out Charted at number 58 on the Rap/R&B Charts. T.R.O.Y charted at 58 on the Billboard Hot 100
A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die Charted at 69 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop singles chart. Definition Charted at 60 on Billboard Hot 100
Elevators Charted at 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Doo Wop (That Thing) Charted to number ONE on the Billboard Hot 100
Doo wop aint a rap song
..and you left out the majority of the songs you named
Had no idea Renee and those other songs charted that high...you got me there.
None of those songs are nowhere near as memorable or popular from my recollection as the songs in the OP.
But ask yoursellf this...who were the top NY rappers (commercially) at the time those songs dropped?
Because everybody i named was at the very top or near top of their city/region's rap scene (commercially) and pushing THAT type of content...can you say the same for Lost Boys, CL & Smooth vis a vis the NY rap scene?
BmoreGorilla
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Early 90s
That's just the early 90s and I could've added more
That's just the early 90s and I could've added more
so let me get this shyt straight
u are giving credit to pac, cube, short, spice, geto boyz, face, 8ball..... etc...etc... for having 1 or 2 socially conscience songs
YET
your excluding (the greatest pool) of mc's/rappers ei. biggie, jay, nas, wu, red, mobb.... etc...etc... for having dem same socially conscience 1 or 2 cuts off their album
The rappers in the 1st line made socially concious & lyrically poingnant rap songs as their LEAD SINGLES
And did so consistently...
Huge difference compared to the rappers in the 2nd line.
Your missing no one which makes your whole thread fraudulent. You tried to say the south had deeper music when it clearly didn't . I'm about to body your thread
So you're saying NY had a signifancantly larger depth of socially concious, lyrically poignant HIT SONGS (<<< Key phrase here) comparable to the tracks in the OP?
Yet we're like 30+ posts now in this thread and i've only seen two songs posted that POTENTIALLY & MAYBE fit the qualifications and can be compared to some of the bottom tier songs in the OP? Interesting.