Funk Flex challenges old NY rappers to step their music game up: UPDATE: Rae and Ghost gets called out

[T-K-G]

I love that this worked for Math and Flex can take this on a real promo run and give a ton of old heads a chance to impress us or embarass themselves, either way their numbers go up and Math can say he gave old rappers new life in NYC


With this different level of talk in his bag I wonder if he's gonna try to spin the block on caffeine for one of the big name's who fronted on his podcast shyt could get spooky real quick. He's got all the cards in his hand right now tho, it's a different vibe from Taxstone but close enough that he could get all the looks that Tax lost



@ReasonableMatic @theflyest @wizworld this is a W for the culture if you ask me

 

[Newark88]

The climate would have never gotten like this without the Telecommunications Act, and all the radio stations wouldn't be owned and controlled by the same corporations the labels are. There was rap for everyone. I assume you're too young to remember, the commercial shyt the labels bribed got the most play, but DJs could play good non-mainstream stuff or local artists. The internet makes this less necessary, but it would still help build artists by gicing them realtime feedback from real people, as well as the DJ.

I’m 45, so I lived through Hip Hop only being played on Friday and Saturday nights (Kiss FM and WBLS) to Hot 97 being a dance station to turning into a 24 hour Hip Hop station. I definitely know the evolution but as I said, we may care but the average youth 30 and under doesn’t look at radio for a source of listening to music

 

[T-K-G]

This ties directly into the Flex v Griselda conversation. These older NY dudes are mad at NY radio for not playing what they consider to be NY music, but ignoring the fact that people in NY aren't listening to that shyt they're listening to NY drill

even funnier that Esso took shots at Griselda

and then Math ends up spinning the situation and getting that Flex drop, the main thing that Griselda (way more popular than Math) have been complaining about not getting this whole time



it's like Esso said, "YALL nikkaS FROM BUFFALO, GO GET PLAY THERE!!!" i can't believe it's really just coming down to them nikkas not being from the city, that's hilarious

 

[TripleAgent]

I’m 45, so I lived through Hip Hop only being played on Friday and Saturday nights (Kiss FM and WBLS) to Hot 97 being a dance station to turning into a 24 hour Hip Hop station. I definitely know the evolution but as I said, we may care but the average youth 30 and under doesn’t look at radio for a source of listening to music

That doesn't mean it can't still be a valuable resource. I can't fault any artist for wanting support, despite how misguided it may be in 2022. As some have alluded, this is low key promotion, so it's still net posistive.

 

[wizworld]

Drill music is already in its 7th year in NYC.

That area where Notti Osama was from is definitely like that what makes you say it’s not. He’s not even the first OY gang member to make major news in NYC.

The kids from now are too young for the Get Lite wave they from the generation after. They also created their own dance wave with “getting sturdy”.

Drill music is already in its 7th year in NYC.

That area where Notti Osama was from is definitely like that what makes you say it’s not. He’s not even the first OY gang member to make major news in NYC.

The kids from now are too young for the Get Lite wave they from the generation after. They also created their own dance wave with “getting sturdy”.

It's not a dangerous area for people who aren't affiliated with whatever those kids have going on.

Sturdy is highly influenced by lite feet.

22gz & Fivio were lite feet, it's documented.

 

[wizworld]

even funnier that Esso took shots at Griselda

and then Math ends up spinning the situation and getting that Flex drop, the main thing that Griselda (way more popular than Math) have been complaining about not getting this whole time



it's like Esso said, "YALL nikkaS FROM BUFFALO, GO GET PLAY THERE!!!" i can't believe it's really just coming down to them nikkas not being from the city, that's hilarious

Not quite. Flex isn't going to play a 75 bpm song with no discernible melody. He never played any of the thousands of Wu Affiliate songs like that. So i don't think there is big bias against Griselda.

 

[Finesse]

Drill music is already in its 7th year in NYC.

That area where Notti Osama was from is definitely like that what makes you say it’s not. He’s not even the first OY gang member to make major news in NYC.

The kids from now are too young for the Get Lite wave they from the generation after. They also created their own dance wave with “getting sturdy”.

That side of Harlem is the relatively clean side. Probably the cleanest. Similar to Pop Smoke and Canarasie. nikkas jumping off the porch all over NY.

Gang banging eliminated poverty politics in the city. Now its all about what you repping dont even matter where you from.

 

[TripleAgent]

Not quite. Flex isn't going to play a 75 bpm song with no discernible melody. He never played any of the thousands of Wu Affiliate songs like that. So i don't think there is big bias against Griselda.

If there was no bias, then surely he played Dr. Birds? Sonically interesting (IDK about "melodic" in the current sense), major label, with one of the catchiest pseudo hooks in ages? Sing "tell Virgil write brick on my briiick" in a crowd, and anyone who's heard it will start singing along.

 

[ISO]

That side of Harlem is the relatively clean side. Probably the cleanest. Similar to Pop Smoke and Canarasie. nikkas jumping off the porch all over NY.

Gang banging eliminated poverty politics in the city. Now its all about what you repping dont even matter where you from.

That’s a wild comparison Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill has a rich Harlem Renaissance history and has mansions and brownstones but there’s projects and Section 8 buildings there and rough blocks

Nothing like Canarsie which is a solidly middle class neighborhood with high home ownership

But I agree it’s no longer about poverty

 

[nieman]

I’m 45, so I lived through Hip Hop only being played on Friday and Saturday nights (Kiss FM and WBLS) to Hot 97 being a dance station to turning into a 24 hour Hip Hop station. I definitely know the evolution but as I said, we may care but the average youth 30 and under doesn’t look at radio for a source of listening to music

The radio may not matter to the youth (teenagers to 20 somethings), but it matters to other corporations, and enhances one's reach. You need a sponsorship. you go to who's hot on the radio. Women and children still listen to the radio. Cardi B got hot off the radio spinning her ish. Meek got hot off the radio. It makes all of the difference, and brings different types of money.

 

[T-K-G]

Not quite. Flex isn't going to play a 75 bpm song with no discernible melody. He never played any of the thousands of Wu Affiliate songs like that. So i don't think there is big bias against Griselda.

you KNOW even Flex aint gonna explain that to anyone tho they about to be HOT especially considering Math's "status" in mainstream rap getting that look


the promos are coming

 

[ISO]

It's not a dangerous area for people who aren't affiliated with whatever those kids have going on.

Sturdy is highly influenced by lite feet.

22gz & Fivio were lite feet, it's documented.

That’s how it is everywhere in the city tbh for the first part

22 and Fivio are older than these new drill kids. Kay Flock was in pre school at the height of lite feet. I find the moves very different. But I guess you can say the creators of the first sturdy moves were the children of the lite feet era.

 

[ISO]

even funnier that Esso took shots at Griselda

and then Math ends up spinning the situation and getting that Flex drop, the main thing that Griselda (way more popular than Math) have been complaining about not getting this whole time



it's like Esso said, "YALL nikkaS FROM BUFFALO, GO GET PLAY THERE!!!" i can't believe it's really just coming down to them nikkas not being from the city, that's hilarious

Well they don’t get play in Buffalo I never heard their shyt there on the radio

Before they complain about NYC radio they need to speak for Buff but obviously they know how big the NYC market and radio is so that’s what they want

 

[Finesse]

That’s a wild comparison Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill has a rich Harlem Renaissance history and has mansions and brownstones but there’s projects and Section 8 buildings there and rough blocks

Nothing like Canarsie which is a solidly middle class neighborhood with high home ownership

But I agree it’s no longer about poverty

I was trying to get a spot in Hamilton before I dipped, that was the last straw.

When I hit the block to check out the spot. It was nothing but White boys and Asians. That area got gentrified hard.

"Meanwhile, Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill had the biggest increase in white residents as a share of its overall population, growing from 11 to 19 percent white."

Harlem Lost 10K Black Residents, Gained 18K Whites This Decade

Newly released census data confirms what many in Harlem already knew: the neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying.

patch.com

nikkas still get busy out there tho, I wont front.

 

[ISO]

If there was no bias, then surely he played Dr. Birds? Sonically interesting (IDK about "melodic" in the current sense), major label, with one of the catchiest pseudo hooks in ages? Sing "tell Virgil write brick on my briiick" in a crowd, and anyone who's heard it will start singing along.

WSG has a grating voice to many and it’s a slow ugly beat with very conversational rapping no melody.

How about the old head bias from the return of the boom bap types tho

As a posse cut this is a much better candidate to get played on radio way more energy to move people that Griselda song is something you mean mug and bop your head to

This shyt will actually make you move and I’d argue they were spitting harder than Griselda did and the content is no different. One is neo boom bap and the other drill.