from my point of view being a southern boy, we watched NY shyt on us decade after decade, and we really couldnt defend it....
cuz the labels and media tried they best to push a stereo-type or arch-type of what a southern was/is and folks all over the nation played and downplayed us as region, and we looked in the mirror and "owned it" no doubt it hurted as a region to be addressed the way they addressed us, it hurted us a region to be viewed the way they viewed us, like damn is the south really the reason hip hop dead.............. but when truth showed itself and revealed the hands of the labels table were turned....
we didnt go to the labels, so the labels could no longer box us in a region............they last straw was Trinidad James.....
still tryna play a image off as a southern stereo-type and it back fired......... dudes down south is just as lyrically equipped as any other region, and im glad NY cant shake the voodoo that we hit them, when u hate something so much, that what u hate then consumes you.......and i think that NYers need to apologize and that curse will be lifted until then Hip Hop will never find its home back in NY.......NY the tables have turned....
The South in the media are portrayed as c00ns. Trust me, I know a lot of native southerners that love lyrical-fueled Hip Hop and quality artists. Outside the club, you see that there is a whole new world out there.