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

[Wild self]

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

Too late. He has to undo 20 years of damage and out of control rent prices, and even then, street heads can't prosper in the era of the street cameras and the lower demand of crack. Money has dried up in the streets.

Maybe this was for the best. It made nikkas wake up and realize that ownership is the key and to move on from limited street rap that mentally enslaved too many black folk.

 

[MBwithadream]

Too late. He has to undo 20 years of damage and out of control rent prices, and even then, street heads can't prosper in the era of the street cameras and the lower demand of crack. Money has dried up in the streets.

Maybe this was for the best. It made nikkas wake up and realize that ownership is the key and to move on from limited street rap that mentally enslaved too many black folk.

Tru

 

[DrX]

nyc is richer and safer but most of the natives will all agree that the city lost alot of its soul

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

nyc is richer and safer but most of the natives will all agree that the city lost alot of its soul

Soul is not something that can be measured. Who cares about soul is you can't even have your kids play outside? All that soul shyt ya'll talking about has to do with fukkery, death, despair and drugs. Nothing tangible in building a brighter future. Guilliani and Bloomberg did the right damn things for the future of law abiding citizens in the city. It's just sad people who look like me and you aren't the ones enjoying those changes in mass, but when you have people willing to substitute this type of living for rap music I can see why.

 

[DrX]

Soul is not something that can be measured. Who cares about soul is you can't even have your kids play outside? All that soul shyt ya'll talking about has to do with fukkery, death, despair and drugs. Nothing tangible in building a brighter future. Guilliani and Bloomberg did the right damn things for the future of law abiding citizens in the city. It's just sad people who look like me and you aren't the ones enjoying those changes in mass, but when you have people willing to substitute this type of living for rap music I can see why.

go ahead and pay 3k a month to live in a closet

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

go ahead and pay 3k a month to live in a closet

I don't live in NYC. Always hated it, but I could see myself living out there now ..

 

[LAXtoNY]

unless ur ballin u should be in the Jersey outskirts

 

[Wild self]

Soul is not something that can be measured. Who cares about soul is you can't even have your kids play outside? All that soul shyt ya'll talking about has to do with fukkery, death, despair and drugs. Nothing tangible in building a brighter future. Guilliani and Bloomberg did the right damn things for the future of law abiding citizens in the city. It's just sad people who look like me and you aren't the ones enjoying those changes in mass, but when you have people willing to substitute this type of living for rap music I can see why.

Those mayors went too hard on minorities, and they stole the NYPD blueprint from David Dinkins, but people glorify the rough times too much. Cats in here talk about "Real Hip Hop" when they talk about doing crime and the streets worshipping negative behavior. KRS denounced it and Chuck D done so as well, but some of these oldheads re-written history for their terms and think that they right about that shyt.

 

[Yakno1]

What's up to the NY brethen......

From a outsider I look at it like this, the city is going through gentrification but even with that you will still have pockets of challenged areas, low income areas where people are going through a struggle. So that means the situation is still there in some areas and the voices are there but the outlets to broadcast them are not.....Hip Hop needs balance so everyone in the thread talking about "no one wants to hear that no more", is not true. The game has multiple lanes

If you grew up in lower class areas you will most likely relate more to rappers who came from that situation, same thing if you grew up in a middle class family you may relate to rappers who came up in a middle class setting but still can appreciate rappers who came from the hood

The biggest thing that really hurt NY RAP in my opinion is RADIO. Only a handful of companies run Nationally, as soon as Big Corporate Headquarters decided to gather up their stations and pass down national playlist.....that hurt more than anything

When you got a Giant corporate conglomerate like Clear Channel who may own up to about 100 radio stations nationally that spin urban music (hiphop and r & b) and they in cohorts with the record company decide that 10 records only will make a consistent play list nationally based off industry politics....and they pass that same play list to all the stations they own......I'm going go on and say that hurt more than gentrification