Axum Ezana
Driving in the fast lane
if yall look at it right though....WHEN WAS NEW YORK ever selling HIP HOP in big numbers?
if you go back in history gangsta rap/west rap always out sold east rap....by big margins.
when new York style rap started selling it had turned to club, drug,hardcore,horror core,street,braggodcio and mafiosa sub genres.(with one or two hip hop tracks if any on the album)
its just that the south sound appeals to the masses now.(largely because its "new" to people)
imagine if new gen new York started doing south style rap in in 03.......then the ball would be in new York court even though people would still say the 90's rappers were better.but new York would still own because they would have progressed to a new mainstream style. 90's rap style is classic but more in a underground way.
just like old rock n roll....its classic but they still had to advance the style from 70's sound to 80's synth sound......to hard rock/pop rock in the 90's.......same with rnb go listen to rkelly 90's rnb and then go back to listen to confessions....the sound changed. don't means its worse.
the problem is not the producer or musical composers(even though some of them nikkas wack and don't got their own style) but its the untalented artist for the most part. see old artist like mj would know what was going on musically in the back ground even though he had quincy jones. he would be making up riffs, writing songs and helping produce his tracks the whole way. these artist these days sit back and let the a&r/what's making money rule them completely or their just straight up swagger jackers with no original material.
if you go back in history gangsta rap/west rap always out sold east rap....by big margins.
when new York style rap started selling it had turned to club, drug,hardcore,horror core,street,braggodcio and mafiosa sub genres.(with one or two hip hop tracks if any on the album)
its just that the south sound appeals to the masses now.(largely because its "new" to people)
imagine if new gen new York started doing south style rap in in 03.......then the ball would be in new York court even though people would still say the 90's rappers were better.but new York would still own because they would have progressed to a new mainstream style. 90's rap style is classic but more in a underground way.
just like old rock n roll....its classic but they still had to advance the style from 70's sound to 80's synth sound......to hard rock/pop rock in the 90's.......same with rnb go listen to rkelly 90's rnb and then go back to listen to confessions....the sound changed. don't means its worse.
the problem is not the producer or musical composers(even though some of them nikkas wack and don't got their own style) but its the untalented artist for the most part. see old artist like mj would know what was going on musically in the back ground even though he had quincy jones. he would be making up riffs, writing songs and helping produce his tracks the whole way. these artist these days sit back and let the a&r/what's making money rule them completely or their just straight up swagger jackers with no original material.
You are flat out making shyt up now
They don't discover/showcase talent now 