Let's talk about how the south lowered the standard of lyricism in hip hop...

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and how this lie, really covered up that NYC mixtape rappers are what killed it.



The mid 2000's saw nothing but hundreds of NYC rappers spewing out punchlines after punchlines on mixtapes to the point nobody wanted to hear that shyt anymore.

While y'all wanna talk about how such and such southern rapper can barely rap... we were getting weekly trash punchlines from Papoose, to the point where it became a near decade long joke.

We completely ignore how countless NYC rappers, could rap for days...but couldn't make good songs( and no, being able to rap very well on a track≠good song making)

Take a look back at some of them SMACK DVD era rappers, bars and punchlines for days.....but making a song that people would want to listen to on the radio :russ:


Southern rappers may have a lower "standard" of lyricism, but they were far better at crafting songs than your run of the mill NYC rapper of the time.

:russ::russ::russ::russ::russ:@ y'all thinking i was gonna shyt on the south for something NYC did.
 

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yeah, some of them dvd rappers had bars tho, they be killing them freestyles

Let's take a dude like Serious Jones for example (even tho he's from Jersey...but NYC claims Jersey when they want to)
Bars/Punchlines for Days, could murk any freestyle on any DJ's mixtape.

but couldn't make a radio single...much less a normal song to save his life.


that was the case for about 90% of them dudes.
 

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Watchin that Hot97 Battle rap shyt last night really made me realize this too.


Seems like every nikka in New York can bust his gun and sell that crack. But these nikkas couldnt put together a cohesive song to save they life :heh:
 

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nikkas would be trying to get the 1 hot punchline instead of focusing on their songwriting and albums. :russ:



then you had papoose who would write nothing but punchlines then fill in the blanks with some nonsense.
 

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I agree, but for thorough hip hop listeners during that time, the dvd era provided a much needed alternative to the mtv/bet nonsense...
 
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