True or False: New York started Hip-Hop but the West Coast Popularized it

[BlackMajik]

I was having a convo with someone and I said New York started Hip-Hop but the West Coast popularized it and they disagreed lol. Now I don't mind if anyone disagrees cuz its my opinion

Now mind u a Southern nikka so that's where I'm coming from. And I just believe it was the West Coast who that made Hip-Hop mega popular

What y'all think?

[And this is no region dissing thread, so go somewhere else with that]

 

[LA Fisher]

So much versatility on the west coast. Almost every east coast track from 90-99 sounds exactly the same.

 

[OG Talk]

Common addressed this on I Used To Love Her..

 

[The Ruler 09]

False, but West expanded further as did everywhere else,

 

[Thoughts]

Possibly the dumbest thread ever on a hip-hop forum ...low key Blondie, Fab 5 and Basquiat popularized hip-hop.

 

[Suicide King]

Both coasts created so much classics.

 

[OG Talk]

Possibly the dumbest thread ever on a hip-hop forum ...low key Blondie, Fab 5 and Basquiat popularized hip-hop.

Didn't nobody in Nebraska or Arkansas know about no fukkin Basquiat or Fab 5 Freddie...

 

[BlackMajik]

Possibly the dumbest thread ever on a hip-hop forum ...low key Blondie, Fab 5 and Basquiat popularized hip-hop.

Hmm -100 rep huh

Silence fukk nikka

 

[Ashtrey]

Run DMC popularized it, first rap group on MTV. They were going platinum before the West had a real movement.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

westcoast music is the reason we get looked at as clowns

 

[BlackMajik]

Run DMC popularized it, first rap group on MTV.

Ok when I say popularize I mean making it mega popular

I know what Run DMC did. But starting with NWA the West took it too another level. FBI targeting them shows u how popular they were getting

 

[BlackMajik]

westcoast music is the reason we get looked at as clowns

 

[Ashtrey]

Ok when I say mean making it mega popular

I know what Run DMC did. But starting with NWA the West took it too another level. FBI targeting them shows u how popular they were getting

Raising Hell sold 3xplatinum.... more than NWA did

 

[Thoughts]

Didn't nobody in Nebraska or Arkansas know about no fukkin Basquiat or Fab 5 Freddie...

Number one on the Billboard charts ...

 

[DStyles]

west coast hip hop is