Is Memphis about to have a Houston level-run in rap music?

[GrindtooFilthy]

no mention of 3-6 or project pat on the first page

disappointed in yall

 

[Alvin]

Duke Deuce

Moneybagg Yo

Yo Gotti

Blocboy JB

Blac Youngsta

Young Dolph

Key Glock

Maybe
But they been doing since triple 6 mob, ball and jg was out. And yo gizzle

 

[Alvin]

Houston's legacy overall is stronger than Memphis'. Memphis has a niche sound and a cult following but not on Houston's level...

Houston is a GOAT-level 2nd-tier hip hop city, with Philly and Chicago. Memphis not quite on that level but has a more than respectable history. I doubt any of these new nikkas gonna elevate the city's stature...

Nah you tripping heavy, flip those around

 

[Supper]

Yet Houston directly influenced.

16:00 and 23:00 minute mark

Triple 6 feat. Dre Dog, Fela Phil and Fly Mar's 'Walkin' Assassin' - Discover the Sample Source

DJ Paul and Lord Infamous's '187 Invitation' - Discover the Sample Source

Project Pat feat. S.O.G.'s 'This Ain't No Game' - Discover the Sample Source

Juicy J's 'South Park nikka' - Discover the Sample Source

Three 6 Mafia's 'fukkin Wit Dis Click' - Discover the Sample Source

DJ Paul and Lord Infamous's 'Step Into This Mass' - Discover the Sample Source

Prophet Posse's 'Catch a Blast' - Discover the Sample Source

Gangsta Blac's 'Wreckless Clan' - Discover the Sample Source

Memphis rap = Houston hard/horrorcore + 808 + Triggaman samples

It's cool though. We got 25 lighters and a bunch of Issac Hayes & Latimore samples from them.

TX & TN been locked and fed off each other when it comes to music since way back in the Duke-Peacock records time.

Our BBQ still better, tho.

 

[3rd Ward Swangin]

Triple 6 feat. Dre Dog, Fela Phil and Fly Mar's 'Walkin' Assassin' - Discover the Sample Source

DJ Paul and Lord Infamous's '187 Invitation' - Discover the Sample Source

Project Pat feat. S.O.G.'s 'This Ain't No Game' - Discover the Sample Source

Juicy J's 'South Park nikka' - Discover the Sample Source

Three 6 Mafia's 'fukkin Wit Dis Click' - Discover the Sample Source

DJ Paul and Lord Infamous's 'Step Into This Mass' - Discover the Sample Source

Prophet Posse's 'Catch a Blast' - Discover the Sample Source

Gangsta Blac's 'Wreckless Clan' - Discover the Sample Source

Memphis rap = Houston hard/horrorcore + 808 + Triggaman samples

It's cool though. We got 25 lighters from them and a bunch of Issac Hayes & Latimore samples from them.

TX & TN been locked and fed off each other when it comes to music since way back in the Duke-Peacock records time.

Our BBQ still better, tho.

B.B. King whole band was also from Houston.

 

[TXTrill1]

nikka Memphis been legendary..fukk outta here.

Memphis has way more influence on hip hop then Houston if you wanna be honest.

What are you smoking?

 

[Supper]

B.B. King whole band was also from Houston.

But King also had substantial ties to Houston, and starting in the early 1950s heavily populated his bands with musicians from the Bayou City. That relationship wouldn’t have existed without Don Robey, arguably the most important non-performing African-American music figure in Houston musical history, and certainly before the advent of hip-hop culture. A notoriously cutthroat businessman who also owned the Bronze Peacock nightclub in Fifth Ward, Robey is probably best known for the cluster of record labels he owned, most prominently Duke and Peacock. Although B.B. King never officially recorded for those, Robey also owned Buffalo Booking Agency, which sent King and his band out on the road to the tune of some 300 nights a year. Although the agency was run day to day by one of Robey’s closest associates, a woman named Evelyn Johnson, Buffalo definitely reflected the mogul’s thrifty, even miserly approach to making a buck.

The Many Houstonians Who Helped Make B.B. King a Star

Yep, just like I said- Them Duke-Peacock ties.

Another three 6 sample of street military.
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/639750/Three-6-Mafia-Gangsta-Blac-Crank-Dis-bytch-Up-Street-Military-I-Don't-Give-a-Damn/

 

[Supper]

Houston is a GOAT-level 2nd-tier hip hop city, with Philly and Chicago. Memphis not quite on that level but has a more than respectable history. I doubt any of these new nikkas gonna elevate the city's stature...

I can kinda see where you're coming from.

Our scene is not and probably will never be mainstream, cuz our city simply doesn't have the infrastructure for it. ATL, NYC, & LA are the "urban media" entertainment centers. The vast majority of the major media & music corporations are in those cities.

In fact Houston artist have historically been outright rejected by the gatekeepers of the industry from the geto boys being targeted for censorship(lost a distro deal with geffen behind it), to majors threatening to press charges against DJ Screw for unpaid royalties because he was selling so many mixtapes, which led to him using more original SUC freestyles and songs on his tapes, to Trae the Truth being banned by Radio One(now Urban One). and even till today with the unwritten black ball against sauce walka & the tsf. Lets not even talk about J prince and Rap A Lot ultimately handing the DEA one of it's biggest Ls ever. We just ain't a mainstream industry friendly city.

But, what we do have is one of the richest grass roots hyperlocalized underground rap scenes in the nation

I view cities like Houston, Memphis, The Bay, and Chicago as being like the axis or BRICS nations in Hip Hop- The "bad guys" or anti-industry that exist on the fringes, in contrast to the ATL, NYC, and LA which are the allies or the west- The "good guys" representing the mainstream industry you see on tv.