this shyt was eye opening to me.Look at Outkast. Everyone now praises them up and down and claims to love all their shyt. But look at the tepid ass response the vast majority of their music got at their festival performances.For a generation of people who now swear up and down that they loved them it really seemed like they didn't know pretty much anything from their discography aside from the obvious.
.THAT was what did it for me. Silence to fukking Elevatorsthis shyt was eye opening to me.
Just a bunch of kids who only knew Hey Ya, Way You Move, Miss Jackson and Rosa Parks.
When Elevators came on, those same people who swore they were fans were like.

Here's my thing with cats like Thugga, Quan and em, beats are nice as shiit, but i can't really fuuc with them vocals too much tho. 1 or 2 songs cool, but after that, nah i'm good.
What I wanna with some of these new age acts is what they used to do with Reggae back in the days. Have the regular vocal version, and then a dub version, chop up the vox, put some affects stuff like that.
That'll be nice

this shyt was eye opening to me.
Just a bunch of kids who only knew Hey Ya, Way You Move, Miss Jackson and Rosa Parks.
When Elevators came on, those same people who swore they were fans were like.


The-Dream and CBreezyI just thought about something, The Dream doesn't get the props he deserves, I understand his stay was short lived, but his sound definitely birthed some of this stuff

Only people who think southern rap is/was bad are cats from new york. Ironically New York sound is practically dead b/c they wanted to sound more southernMy overarching point was, a lot of people just in general really don't like Southern hip-hop at all, and largely are responsible for the southern = bad hip hop mentality. But will trot out an act like Outkast to prove that isn't the case, when it isn't genuine at all because back then they weren't fukking with them either.
I just don't take the opinions of non-southern people on southern rap seriously. These people weren't fukking with Ball/G, UGK, Goodie Mob, Face, Kast, 3-6, Trick, etc until some of them got "legitimized" by some northern co-sign, so the widespread notion that the new ATL makes "bad" music gets a giantfrom me, because that tune is going to change the second someone from NY or LA puts out a great album appropriating their shyt and talks about how much of an influence they were on them.
You got brooklyn nikkas making Drill music now.

i remember my cousins in Brooklyn and Philly having no idea who Outkast and Bone were way back when.Growing up in the DC area really help me appreciate Hip-hop in way that I don't think I would've growing up anywhere else. This is area is weird, cause even though we are on the coast and only 4 hours away for NY. We've never really had any regional allegiances. So I grew around all Rap from Tribe,Rap-a-lot, Suave House, Bay Area, early No Limit, etc.
i remember my cousins in Brooklyn and Philly having no idea who Outkast and Bone were way back when.
Same time, I had no idea who Nas was until If I Ruled the World.
DC has always been Southern in its taste, sprinkled in with some New York.
i dont think anyone is actually hating on J. Cole. He is boring as fukk. Iggy is hated. J. Cole is straight meh.J.Cole isn't all that... But the hate is mind blowing...
Like what do you really want?
I can see that.West coast too, for me this was the break down, DC and hood PG more Southern and West coast. Western PG and Mo, more East coast.
