New York is really in a bad place...

[Urbanmiracle]

50 Cent fought everyone who was poppin and making hot music. If Murder Inc was still around they would've produced some type of talent. G-Unit failed to carry that weight.

Overall, there is young talent from New York but none of them know how to make hit records and the older generation are still trying to stay in the game and because new york is all about "competition" it just seems like its every man for himself. I mean seriously, Who has Nas co-signed or put on in the last 5 years? Jay-Z didn't try to bring no mc's from new york.

Who said Nas had to? What about hov who actually HAS A LABEL?!? What up and coming NY rappers has he given shine to?

NY main problem is everyone is except NY to do something instead just letting shyt progress. There is also a negative tone toward "that NY sound" and barely anyone wants to be labeled with it. Also the new and up coming artist who get shine are signing or mimicking what's hot. ASAP jacking Houston style and try to bring it to 125th and Lennox, French sounding like he from Florida with maybach music, and this guy Fab just looks at charting singles, finds out who produced that single, and runs to do a catchy single sounding exactly the same to pay his bills I guess.

And as far as Nas and Hov I mean I think they really love rapping. They might do it forever. Doesn't mean the newer cats can't shine. nikkas need to step it the fukk up. nikkas aren't carrying the torch properly for NY.

 

[Pop123]

why don't you change the thread title to "new york rap culture is in a bad place"?

nikkas got bills man, aint nobody worryin about this shyt you nut ass hip hop nikkas be talkin about, .

but to entertain it for a second... jay-z's album will prob go double platinum, nicki is the queen of hip hop, puffy can buy and sell every other rapper, etc... fukk is you talkin about?

 

[MINT]

new york rap has been shyt for more than 10 years now

 

[MINT]

true, it's because Biggie was the last great rapper from NY.

 

[MINT]

I think it's cuz ny ain't ny no more
Yea it still has it bad areas but a lot of it has been gentrified
The white people have almost completely taken over
There nobody out here starving like they were in the 80s
Them nikkas is gone
Look at Harlem, uptown, Brooklyn, Queens
A lot of people forced to relocate
U gotta have money to live out here
Without that hunger, that it factor ain't there

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I was up in Boston for two weeks and heard NOTHING but ATL music

 

[MINT]

I was up in Boston for two weeks and heard NOTHING but ATL music

co sign

 

[RAX 010]

We dont even really have a new definitive sound..our old sound which raised hip hop is outdated yet vintage...but at the end of the day we still gave birth to hip hop now she running around gettin her groove on...she will be back eventually

 

[MouseTeeth]

Tired of bums hatin on the Goat city when everybody comes here to make sumthin of themselves n wishes they were from here

 

[MINT]

I feel bad for NY tbh

 

[MINT]

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Inferiority complexes galore

 

[MysteryT]

Not this again............stop putting this all on one city. Hip Hop culture as a whole is in a bad place. We don't even own Hip Hop anymore, corporate America does. Once we sold out our power and music for money, it was a wrap for Hip Hop across the board. What you see now is the powers that be dictating everything. And y'all are eating up what they're spoon feeding you like candy. If y'all can't see that, then continute to be deaf, dumb and blind. And eat the sh*t they give you. I don't know what's worse, this or that R&B is dead rhetoric. Sh*t like this gets mad annoying to a Hip Hop connoisseur who knows better.

 

[dunkman6]

NY been soft. shyt ain't new. Southern rap take over fukk boys.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

bunch of country bump nikkas hangin out in front of Texaco talking shyt. sounds like fun. wish I was from where some of you are at.