Admirable that they've managed to keep their sound so authentically regional. I kind of missed that time in rap where regions had distinctive sounds and accents.
I just had that same convo last week on 2 different occasions. It started when ironically this cat in the barbershop was streaming music from his phone and it played:
Nelly's Air Force Ones
Young Jeezy Air Forces
then randomly UCB - Sexy Lady
Wale - Girls
Rare Essense - Overnight Scenario
Jay-z - Do It Again
Snoop Dogg Lay Low
I mentioned to one cat how I missed that regional sound and how I could venture into so many sets without it all sounding the same. Dude told me that half the artist sound like Future, Lil Wayne or Kevin Gates and the beats all are the same. This young cat jumped in the convo and basically called us old and that he couldn't imagine rap sounds being a regional thing.
Kids will never know how it felt to hear a NYC rapper over a West Coast beat or a Southern Rapper on a NYC beat and etc. Then it use to be so fun breaking down the sounds just in the South itself.
GA, FLA, TN, VA, LA, and TX all were putting out music that you could distinctly tell where in the South there were from just off beats.
Same with CA...you could tell SoCal music from the Bay Area music but it still was a West Coast vibe
Same with the Midwest, Tri-State and etc. Hell even the Dancehall music had it's on style that stood out.
Now...while a lot of the beats are nice...it's the same sound coming from every region with little variation from artist to artist.
But anyway..... should out to Griselda for keeping that gritty sound alive.