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

[BlackMajik]

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

Was NWA on MTV like Run DMC was?

I just wanna know

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

west coast rap ushered in the multi-plat era, dre and snoop opened that window that had rappers eating good from 94/95-04

 

[Ashtrey]

Was NWA on MTV like Run DMC was?

I just wanna know

express yourself was played on yo mtv raps.. Run DMC went 3xplatinum in 1 year 1986/1987 before NWA even hit the scene nationally.. so who's more "mega popular"?

 

[stealthbomber]

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

i thought u had 24 hours to reevaluate

 

[BlackMajik]

express yourself was played on yo mtv raps.. Run DMC went 3xplatinum in 1 year 1986/1987 before NWA even hit the scene nationally.. so who's more "mega popular"?

This ain't about Run DMC vs NWA sooooo ur point is invalid

 

[Ashtrey]

This ain't about Run DMC vs NWA sooooour point is invalid

My point is Rap was already popularized and selling millions of records before the West Coast had a real movement that sold millions of records.. isn't that what this thread is about.. who popularized Rap?

 

[BlackMajik]

My point is Rap was already popularized and selling millions of records before the West Coast had a real movement that sold millions of records.. isn't that what this thread is about.. who popularized Rap?

Maybe I need to make myself more clear. Of course since New York made hip hop, of course they made it known nationwide but when the West Coast got a hold of it and around the turn of the decade (80s/90s) they really made the genre MEGA popular

 

[hex]

No....RUN DMC was going multi-plat before the West even had a national presence.

Fred.

 

[BlackMajik]

No....RUN DMC was going multi-plat before the West even had a national presence.

Fred.

Read my last post

I explain what I really mean

 

[CELL]

New York started Hip Hop, New York popularised it.

Simple.

 

[Ashtrey]

Maybe I need to make myself more clear. Of course since New York made hip hop, of course they made it known nationwide but when the West Coast got a hold of it and around the turn of the decade (80s/90s) they really made the genre MEGA popular

Yeah I guess with The Chronic/Doggystyle but those albums sold just as much as Raising Hell did 6 years prior ... I don't understand the criteria of mega-popular? because Run DMC had the sales, influence, radio play, MTV video rotation, etc. to be considered mega-popular.

please explain what the West did to make hip hop mega popular.

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

I agree, although we respect Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One etc.. it was regional at the time... NWA, Ice Cube, Dre, Snoop, 2pac made it mainstream.

 

[Flav]

The West Coast didnt make HipHop more popular.They just brought in a fresh new sound like the South did.

 

[California]

west coast hip hop is

All those years of inhaling musty dust particles from those grimey New York subway seats is getting to your brain.

 

[BlackMajik]

Yeah I guess with The Chronic/Doggystyle but those albums sold just as much as Raising Hell did 6 years prior ... I don't understand the criteria of mega-popular? because Run DMC had the sales, influence, radio play, MTV video rotation, etc. to be considered mega-popular.

please explain what the West did to make hip hop mega popular.

But Run DMC was just one group. This post here pretty much explains it

I agree, although we respect Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One etc.. it was regional at the time... NWA, Ice Cube, Dre, Snoop, 2pac made it mainstream.

Man coming from the South from what I saw, it was the West that made Hip Hop a mega popular Genre