I think I realized partly why NYC rap fell off...

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Its the DJs and MCs themselves.

I look at a city like ATL and most of their radio personalities in rap music between three stations are AROUND mid to late 20s.

I look at NYC and the average age of every damn radio talent person is about 35. Thats for Power 105 and Hot 97.

Think about this. Most of Hot 97 has people who have been there SINCE THE fukkING EARLY 90s.

Put that in perspective.

NY can't "come back" because these old dudes are standing in ya'lls way by wanting something thats not coming back, and refusing to show LEGITIMATE love to newcomers.

These characters in NYC are more interested in being brands, than stewards of the music.

In ATL and maybe even Miami and LA, it seems like they LIKE the music their city makes. In NYC, they just seem to tolerate shyt they're really not feeling.

 

[Suicide King]

Who cares what culture vultures like.

I don't listen to most of that jungle music coming out the South.

Migos is what is hot to you?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Theres def a disconnect

But theres also not a lot of direction... or a sense of a city wide "scene" like there was 10, 15, 20 yrs ago.

There's no 1 element.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Who cares what culture vultures like.

I don't listen to most of that jungle music coming out the South.

Migos is what is hot to you?

I swear some of yall nikkas idiots

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Nice observation.

The radio does dictate a lot of what's popular because of the spoon fed tactics Clear Channel Media and the big labels push on the masses (this is why payola is such a pivotal aspect
of contemporary radio; there's 90 percent monopoly and smaller, independent stations are there simply for good measure; think affirmative action for music).


New York no longer has an identity, and their DJ's thrive off of nostalgia and accepting what their higher ups tell them; leaving nothing but a batch of disgruntled lemons yapping over the airwaves
and playing shiit they don't agree with.


It's like... why do it?



./

 

[Freedman]

Who cares what culture vultures like.

I don't listen to most of that jungle music coming out the South.

Migos is what is hot to you?

Be a 50 cent stan brehs

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Who cares what culture vultures like.

I don't listen to most of that jungle music coming out the South.

Migos is what is hot to you?

Migos ARE dope to me. It is what it is.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Theres def a disconnect

But theres also not a lot of direction... or a sense of a city wide "scene" like there was 10, 15, 20 yrs ago.

There's no 1 element.

Then I still gotta blame the DJs/MCs for that.

Cause every other city with a serious rap base has a concept of "a scene" but these door keepers just ain't letting them in.

I've been saying for the longest that ASAP MOB should be the vanguards of this new wave out of NYC but listening to some of these interviews with Charlamagne, DJ Envy, and especially Rosenberg and the fukking worst MC ever Ebro...I start to wonder why these artists are tolerating these stodgy old dudes who don't even care about their music.

Its pretty much a slap in the face at this point.

 

[Ego Noir]

but the radio personalities are important. They have a history that gives the station depth, especially Hot 97.

Angie Martinez is Hot 97. you got Funk Flex on a Friday night dropping bombs debuting some new shyt

New York radio is a culture.

 

[Flay Mayweather]

Old nikkas just stuck in past still taking about new york flows and whatever.

There are plenty of new talent in New York, their sound just isn't mainstream.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

but the radio personalities are important. They have a history that gives the station depth, especially Hot 97.

Angie Martinez is Hot 97. you got Funk Flex on a Friday night dropping bombs debuting some new shyt

New York radio is a culture.

Angie Martinez is 43.

Theres NO WAY shes going home and listening to what 17-20 year olds are making.

Its insulting to even think she would.

 

[Suicide King]

Old nikkas just stuck in past still taking about new york flows and whatever.

There are plenty of new talent in New York, their sound just isn't mainstream.

A lot of crews had movements, was on mixtapes and DVDs, but never was on the radio like that.

I feel a lot of the young rappers on the scene are not making powerful music, and the really good artists are not active enough.

 

[Ego Noir]

Angie Martinez is 43.

Theres NO WAY shes going home and listening to what 17-20 year olds are making.

Its insulting to even think she would.

Thats not the point though. Angie Martinez is more than just a radio personality now. Shes a figurehead to at least NYC culture. As far as NYC, anybody who lives here knows her voice and immediately thinks radio. you think of classic interviews and such shes had with 2Pac and Big, breaking big news of the culture, and her countless interviews with culture heavyweights on the radio at rush hour driving home.

I guarantee you listenership would fall dramatically if they just put a new buck on the angie martinez hour

Funk flex on a friday and sat night on the spins playing ill shyt. Or have some rappers come through and just freestyle and bullshyt for like an hour.

Again. NYC radio is a culture, and these people are not just people that push the button. Theyve become their own brand.

 

[Gains]

I see another problem with hip hop in general

elder heads aren't respected like in other music genres

 

[Freedman]

I see another problem with hip hop in general

elder heads aren't respected like in other music genres

Old Nikkas hate on anything new ,how you supposed to respect that?