Love this ongoing discussion
from 00 to 05
West Coast: Had a revival with 2001, Xzibit, Cube making a comeback, Nate Dogg, Mack Ten, Eastsiders and of course Snoop crossin' over to the mainstream... However only Snoop was makin crossover hits by 05
Eastcoast: Strong in the early 00s with ruff ryders, roc-a-fella, murda inc, bad boy, terror squad and Nas comin back strong with stillmatic... Then u had dipset, G unit blowin the fukk up changin the whole scene... but by 05 jay had retired and 50 and G unit had blackballed the whole city and only they was poppin the hardest... N I mean that nationwide they was the number one nikkaz in the game
South: early 00-02 Cash Money, Outkast blew up, Luda came onto the scene, Crunk started poppin with Lil Jon... By 05 Luda and lil Jon was major stars, TI was startin to blow up and of course the ringtone era was startin to pop off
Midwest: Nelly and Eminem were the biggest names next to Jay-z and 50 Cent during this period... ''only dudes movin units is Em, Pimp Juice and Us''
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As a 11-16 year old lil nikka from NY during this era I gotta admit we fukked with some of cash money early shyt, Luda was funny, and crunk was poppin cuz of the ignant shyt and cuz we'd dry hump the shyt out lil bytches at house parties to lil jons anthems
But yeah, it did feel like the south was tryina takin over but they had not done so yet... until the other half of the decade when rap went too commercial and every week there was a goofy down south nikka with a new dance
I feel like NY didnt really start takin the south serious until 11-12 when Trap became the main sound cuz it was more gangsta and less clownish
from 00 to 05
West Coast: Had a revival with 2001, Xzibit, Cube making a comeback, Nate Dogg, Mack Ten, Eastsiders and of course Snoop crossin' over to the mainstream... However only Snoop was makin crossover hits by 05
Eastcoast: Strong in the early 00s with ruff ryders, roc-a-fella, murda inc, bad boy, terror squad and Nas comin back strong with stillmatic... Then u had dipset, G unit blowin the fukk up changin the whole scene... but by 05 jay had retired and 50 and G unit had blackballed the whole city and only they was poppin the hardest... N I mean that nationwide they was the number one nikkaz in the game
South: early 00-02 Cash Money, Outkast blew up, Luda came onto the scene, Crunk started poppin with Lil Jon... By 05 Luda and lil Jon was major stars, TI was startin to blow up and of course the ringtone era was startin to pop off
Midwest: Nelly and Eminem were the biggest names next to Jay-z and 50 Cent during this period... ''only dudes movin units is Em, Pimp Juice and Us''
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As a 11-16 year old lil nikka from NY during this era I gotta admit we fukked with some of cash money early shyt, Luda was funny, and crunk was poppin cuz of the ignant shyt and cuz we'd dry hump the shyt out lil bytches at house parties to lil jons anthems
But yeah, it did feel like the south was tryina takin over but they had not done so yet... until the other half of the decade when rap went too commercial and every week there was a goofy down south nikka with a new dance
I feel like NY didnt really start takin the south serious until 11-12 when Trap became the main sound cuz it was more gangsta and less clownish