Talib kweli "Y'all new NY rappers ready to stop rapping like y'all from down south yet? #kingofny

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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.
 
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Remember when busta was supposed to bring back ny in '06 when he dropped "ny shyt with hip hops favorite clown producer, swizz beats?:heh:

swizz: woo come on new york, we back! :heh:
dj red alert is on his new york shyt:dead:
kid capri is o. his new york shyt :deadmanny:
Mr. Cee on my New York shyt :laff:
B.I.G. on my New York shyt :what:
(WOO!) Big Pun on my New York shyt :merchant:
 

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Listen. Offline real dudes dint care about this. You lames STILL comparing a whole region to 1 city. Goat. NYC still the top 5 city in the WORLD. fact. And ima still be in the lower east side @ 3am on Tuesday chillin wit models addicted to bottles while ya country bumpkin backwoods town shuts down @ 1 am. Foh.
 

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Listen. Offline real dudes dint care about this. You lames STILL comparing a whole region to 1 city. Goat. NYC still the top 5 city in the WORLD. fact. And ima still be in the lower east side @ 3am on Tuesday chillin wit models addicted to bottles while ya country bumpkin backwoods town shuts down @ 1 am. Foh.

:stopitslime:

All the models and hipsters live in Williamsburg and Bed Stuy now nikka. LES is Macdougal st now. East Village is basically college town.
 

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Hey smart Guy. I said that's where Ima BE not LIVE. Tryna drop st names like that's impressive. Idgaf. Fuc a Hipster. They party hard too. Salute to them. These country dudes never seen a Hipster just read about em. But concerned about what coast better in rap. Mannn get ya life. These b!tches don't care bout that.
 

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Hey smart Guy. I said that's where Ima BE not LIVE. Tryna drop st names like that's impressive. Idgaf. Fuc a Hipster. They party hard too. Salute to them. These country dudes never seen a Hipster just read about em. But concerned about what coast better in rap. Mannn get ya life. These b!tches don't care bout that.

Bruh we know boutcha. Jersey nikkas don't get to claim NYC.
 

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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....

Well...this is the worst era of all time x the South is on top.

Rich Homie Quan, Trinidad Jame$, 2Chainz...really?!!?!?? :laugh:
 

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Remember when busta was supposed to bring back ny in '06 when he dropped "ny shyt with hip hops favorite clown producer, swizz beats?:heh:

swizz: woo come on new york, we back! :heh:
dj red alert is on his new york shyt:dead:
kid capri is o. his new york shyt :deadmanny:
Mr. Cee on my New York shyt :laff:
B.I.G. on my New York shyt :what:
(WOO!) Big Pun on my New York shyt :merchant:


it was a start.

but later that year Jim Jones dropped We Fly High which was the first radio single in a couple of yrs to blow up from NY and balanced the game out. Then Jay came out of retirement....then fabulous and 50 dropped albums in 07'. Eventually balance came back....but 05-06 with the dope boy fresh rappers from the south was over-kill. Rap was finally conscience since kanye had just blown up and had n!ggas like jadakiss making "Why" as a single....Then comes jeezy and gucci taking over.

I eventually liked jeezy....but i felt it was progress in rap once kanye blew up and changed the game like it wasn't just some ignorant party music. It was like progression for black people socially....then comes jeezy to mess it up.
 
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There's a bunch of newish rappers from NYC that sound like they're from there. I'm not talking about the tired throwback I'm bringing the 90's back cats like Joell Ortiz or Joey Badass either. The problem is that folks want the most visible NYC rappers to be on that shyt and it's not going to happen until sounding like you're from NYC is commercially viable again.

Breh help me out with some names! Always willing to check out some new acts.

ps : checked out Bishop Nehru, not sure if you'd include him in that list but found his mixtape kinda dope
 
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