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

[definition]

A better argument would have been, "new york started hip-hop, and they originally made it a phenomenon ... but in order for it to dominate a generation of people globally, it needed to branch out into different direction. The west coast movement was an early example of this, as were the movements from the midwest and south."

Soon, artists from different places and different sounds began to collaborate (bomb squad and ice cube) and influence each other, leading to more ground being broken.

Seems like the OP has an agenda beyond what he's letting on. Just my opinion.

 

[hex]

Something else I'd like to point out....there was no "east coast rap", "west coast rap" back in the 80's and early 90's....there was rap. It was all one category, which is why you had tours with Too Short, NWA, and De La Soul.

This is why rap in general got terrible publicity when gangsta rap blew up. It wasn't focused on the West only, the entire genre took that hit.

Fred.

 

[Ayo]

So this is the moment where I realize that I'm old as fukk?

I lived through this shyt.

And little nikkas on the internet asking about it and making assumptions.

fukk NO!

Hip hop was put on far before NWA. And even then NWA wasn't moving units. They were just making nationwide noise because of their vulgarity.

And for the idiot who said "Nebraska and Arkansas" ain't hear of Fab 5. Nebraska and Arkansas hasn't heard of a lot of shyt. If you live there take the L and move on. You have no vote in the popularity contest.

 

[BlackMajik]

A better argument would have been, "new york started hip-hop, and they originally made it a phenomenon ... but in order for it to dominate a generation of people globally, it needed to branch out into different direction. The west coast movement was an early example of this, as were the movements from the midwest and south."

Soon, artists from different places and different sounds began to collaborate (bomb squad and ice cube) and influence each other, leading to more ground being broken.

Seems like the OP has an agenda beyond what he's letting on. Just my opinion.

Nope

 

[definition]

Nope

I'll take your word for it. In that case, your argument is just wrong.

 

[BlackMajik]

So this is the moment where I realize that I'm old as fukk?

I lived through this shyt.

And little nikkas on the internet asking about it and making assumptions.

fukk NO!

Hip hop was put on far before NWA. And even then NWA wasn't moving units. They were just making noise because of their vulgarity.

And for the idiot who said "Nebraska and Arkansas" ain't hear of Fab 5. Nebraska and Arkansas hasn't heard of a lot of shyt. If you live there take the L and move on.

That wasn't even the topic of this thread

 

[really tho]

different regions popularized it at different eras in time.

you don't have to go to Harvard to figure that out.

 

[BlackMajik]

I'll take your word for it. In that case, your argument is just wrong.

 

[JQ Legend]

I Love west coast hip hop and I say the west (and other regions) were necessary to make hip hop as great as it became but some nikkaz are flat out delusional

The nikka who invented the W hand sign and popularized it was born and raised in NYC

It's crazy how nikkaz still cite 2Pac as a west coast rapper when he didn't even get on that Westside till I die shyt till late 95/early 96 and died working on a movement to kill rumors of him denouncing his east coast roots

Most Pac best friends outside of death row were from NY and NJ

The so called "east coast vs west coast beef" was between 2 nikkas from NY

When Pac passed, Death Row fell off

When death row fell off, the west coast pretty much disappeared from hip hop relevance for damn near a decade till a NY nikka put Game on

NWA got controversy but they did not help popularize hip hop, most nikkaz didnt know who the NWA members were besides Cube Easy and Dre

It's nikkaz still till this day cant cite the 5 NWA members off the top of their heads but know all 9 members of Wu

 

[JQ Legend]

double post

 

[hex]

When death row fell off, the west coast pretty much disappeared from hip hop relevance for damn near a decade till a NY nikka put Game on

That's why I said the West was driven by basically one label. Even people that left that label, like Dre, failed to achieve similar success until years later. That Aftermath shyt he dropped barely went platinum.

Fred.

 

[BlackMajik]

I Love west coast hip hop and I say the west (and other regions) were necessary to make hip hop as great as it became but some nikkaz are flat out delusional

The nikka who invented the W hand sign and popularized it was born and raised in NYC

It's crazy how nikkaz still cite 2Pac as a west coast rapper when he didn't even get on that Westside till I die shyt till late 95/early 96 and died working on a movement to kill rumors of him denouncing his east coast roots

Most Pac best friends outside of death row were from NY and NJ

The so called "east coast vs west coast beef" was between 2 nikkas from NY

When Pac passed, Death Row fell off

When death row fell off, the west coast pretty much disappeared from hip hop relevance for damn near a decade till a NY nikka put Game on

NWA got controversy but they did not help popularize hip hop, most nikkaz didnt know who the NWA members were besides Cube Easy and Dre

It's nikkaz still till this day cant cite the 5 NWA members off the top of their heads but know all 9 members of Wu

Uh no Pac was not raised in NYC lol

 

[Danie84]

We started/transcended it, but West Coast popularized/extended it, and is keeping it mobilize currently

 

[really tho]

west coast was still prevalent, even in the Eminem era thanks to Dr. Dre and Snoop.

to quantify a regions influence, especially today -- you would have a more accurate argument thinking about places hip-hop DOESN'T come from.

Uh no Pac was not raised in NYC lol

Yeah Pac was in Baltimore

R.I.P. Lesane Parish Crooks

 

[Budda]

Uh no Pac was not raised in NYC lol

Mc New York spent more years in New York than anywhere else.