True or False, Mayor Bloomberg's Tenure Helped Dilute NYC Rap

[BlackMagnus514]

Bloomberg's mayorship had a lot to do with killing the artistic identity. That's one thing that the Giuliani era had, that sense of danger and grimy crimey cats hungry to rap and tell the street narrative. Now, you got some music nerd who never heard hip hop before he even came here telling you what's hot in the streets online and shyt. It's like cats from Nebraska who moved here trying to tell us born and bred NYCers what's hot via like Complex and Spin Magazine and shyt.

Like I was bumping The War Report yesterday and it dawned on me that an album like that would've never come out during Bloomberg's time in office.

This city's become a gentrified, high rent clusterfukk playground for Bloomberg's millionaire cronies. You got trust funds kids talking about Occupy Wall Street and then going home to Williamsburg and recapping their experiences on Apple products while sipping coffee they got from some bohemian hole in the wall.

There's no one rapping or recreating a sound from the authentic NYC street experience. That's why Wu was such a force. You could feel the darkness of the projects and the streets in their music. Like we don't even come up with new slang anymore.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

bloomberg and guilianni BOTH contributed

ask NAS and SCREWBALL

NAS called guilanni 666 and SCREWBALL wantes ro shoot him

i was in HARLEM in 97 when i seen the chanfw happening with mixtape spota like HARLEM MUSIC HUT raided by cops

and cameras evwrwhere

GULIANNI came with The muscle

and BLOOMBERG came with the money

and it was wrap for NYC niccas on their WORST BEHAVIOR

it was too late to realize THE YANKEE WHITES of NYC

NEVER LOVED YALL ....

remember

 

[Doctor Wily]

Absofukkinglutley.


Old new york died once he stepped in office.

 

[Lana Kane]

NYC lost?

 

[360dagod]

bloomberg and guilianni BOTH contributed

ask NAS and SCREWBALL

NAS called guilanni 666 and SCREWBALL wantes ro shoot him

i was in HARLEM in 97 when i seen the chanfw happening with mixtape spota like HARLEM MUSIC HUT raided by cops

and cameras evwrwhere

GULIANNI came with The muscle

and BLOOMBERG came with the money

and it was wrap for NYC niccas on their WORST BEHAVIOR

it was too late to realize THE YANKEE WHITES of NYC

NEVER LOVED YALL ....

remember

Fam...I knew it was over when they built the HMV in harlem...

I remember Isaac Music's Hut on Lex

Rainbow Music

The African man who had that lil store right across from HMV...He used to be in the Amsterdam News talking about his fight and the big picture of whats happening....

When Clinton stepped foot in Harlem,that shyt was big problems...nikkas was bamboolzed...I tried to tell nikkas it wasnt good for Harlem,but nikkas love Clinton..

I forgot who said it,but they said when they built the Adam Clayton Powell building,that was the real beginning of what was to come...

Charlie Rangel had alot to do with shyt as well...He is corrupted as hell

But damn I miss that Harlem

 

[atlbound]

Giuliani busts his gunz

 

[JerseyBoy23]

You think DeBlasio will change anything or is the damage too heavy to recover from? I'm pretty sure his kids listen to rap.

 

[360dagod]

You think DeBlasio will change anything or is the damage too heavy to recover from? I'm pretty sure his kids listen to rap.

The culture is permanently changed....

Someone who connects to the nikka who grew up on Don Cartagena and Resevoir dogs as well as the kids who listens to french montana will have the city..

Its about bridging the gaps

 

[Rominati]

The city becoming safer did NOT fukk up New York rap. Come on ya'll thats some c00n shyt

I actually like Harlem better now than back in the day. Ya remember when nikkas was getting fukkin clapped in broad daylight over Merms


Streets is stil grimey, but at least there is a air of safety now. As for dat hipster cac shyt, I dont see none of that on my side of the town. So im cool. More cops means less killings, and if you got fam who been thru that shyt, you know it aint sweet. I had a homie who got shot point blank in his chest right after we was all done with school back in the 9th grade. Im GLAD the young nikkas coming up aint gonna have to go thru that.

 

[Leasy]

I didn't know there was still blacks in NYC. They kicking y'all dudes out and taking over.

King of NY in 10 years will be a Jon Mayer cat.

 

[Marco Zen]

 

[360dagod]

The city becoming safer did NOT fukk up New York rap. Come on ya'll thats some c00n shyt

I actually like Harlem better now than back in the day. Ya remember when nikkas was getting fukkin clapped in broad daylight over Merms


Streets is stil grimey, but at least there is a air of safety now. As for dat hipster cac shyt, I dont see none of that on my side of the town. So im cool. More cops means less killings, and if you got fam who been thru that shyt, you know it aint sweet. I had a homie who got shot point blank in his chest right after we was all done with school back in the 9th grade. Im GLAD the young nikkas coming up aint gonna have to go thru that.

nikkas getting clapped still for them shyts....Just at night

I remember when Avirex was the craze....nikkas were getting sliced and robbed for them shyts

 

[360dagod]

I didn't know there was still blacks in NYC. They kicking y'all dudes out and taking over.

King of NY in 10 years will be a Jon Mayer cat.

As long as there are projects,nikkas will be here...

As long as there is a section 8 loophole,nikkas will be here

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Fam...I knew it was over when they built the HMV in harlem...

I remember Isaac Music's Hut on Lex

Rainbow Music

The African man who had that lil store right across from HMV...He used to be in the Amsterdam News talking about his fight and the big picture of whats happening....

When Clinton stepped foot in Harlem,that shyt was big problems...nikkas was bamboolzed...I tried to tell nikkas it wasnt good for Harlem,but nikkas love Clinton..

I forgot who said it,but they said when they built the Adam Clayton Powell building,that was the real beginning of what was to come...

Charlie Rangel had alot to do with shyt as well...He is corrupted as hell

But damn I miss that Harlem

Niccas had NO CLUE how EVIL bill Clinton was

HARLEM was the first.lab rat for gentrification courtesy of CLINTON urban emppwermemt zones program which qas a message to suburban whites and corporations THAT WE GONNA.MAKE OUR URBAN CENTERS safe and profitanlr.by getting rid.of.the N1CCAS amd SPICKS

DUMB NEGROES THOUGHT HE WAS.THEIR.HOMIE cause he smoked.weed

played the saxophone smoked weed and got his dikk sukked

yet he has sooo many transgressions that go unnoticed :

*attacked SISTA SOULJAH for remarks.taken out of context

*called the GANGSTA DISCIPLES the most dangerous orfanization in america only after HOOVER stopped kissing the democrats. a$$ with the 21 project vote

*NAFTA..ALL THE GOOD FACTORY JOBS FOR NEGROES WENT ABROAD

 

[Rominati]

nikkas getting clapped still for them shyts....Just at night

I remember when Avirex was the craze....nikkas were getting sliced and robbed for them shyts

Remember being a young hood nikka . Moms used to be shook of me rocking a Pelle Pelle at night. My nikkas used to pack heat jus in case cats was on the creep tip.

Those were some truly troubling times , fukk what anybody say. Im glad the city safer , shyt was no joke back then. nikkas used to have to keep tha blade on em, just to go to damn parties , bytches was setting nikkas up too, lure a nikka outside of the party only to get "mistakenly" jumped and robbed