Unsung Hip-hop Cities

[Bugsmoran]

Same for Bud'da, who is also from there.

I never knew budda was from here

Dre rocked wit the Burgh heavy. Rapper Joe Beast was PGH also..

 

[Idaeo]

I also don't understand how D.C rap didn't pop off, there's hella variables at play.

- crack
- it's the seat of government for the nation
- so many Black colleges
- it's still in a way kinda Southern
- they kinda had a front row seat for the New Jack Swing wave

...iono.


And i'll add Little Rock, and the Twin Cities.

Baltimore comes down to the crab mentality. You wont find a city with more haters per square mile. Also the club music scene here is kind g among the DJs. You go to other cities and new artist are being broke by DJs. Clubs here play mostly the local club music and only set aside a certain time for hip hop. So they only play the current hot shyt nationally. Theres always been a ton of rappers here tho and a lot are nice

I feel like DC and B'more both suffer from the crab in the barrel mentality....coupled with neighborhood/region rivalries. also 80s and 90s...DC was more about gogo over anything else.

 

[the cac mamba]

i always wondered why the fukk DC didn't have a bigger scene. i dont think i could name one rapper

 

[Taadow]

I feel like DC and B'more both suffer from the crab in the barrel mentality....coupled with neighborhood/region rivalries. also 80s and 90s...DC was more about gogo over anything else.

I think that could've been used to their advantage. I mean, this kinda felt go-go ish and it banged...

 

[Shadow King]

Newark nj

I think in the 90s Newark was producing a fair share of rappers we just ain't had anybody in 20 years.

 

[NegaDuck]

Memphis

 

[Shadow King]

North (and South) Carolina. Similar to VA, but Waaay less artists. Although we do have Cole, Little Brother/justice league, Supastition, Ski, and a few others.

The Carolinas are a good one. I didn't know Justice League was from there. But didn't somebody on here say Jeezy really grew up in SC?

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Pretty crazy how the biggest rapper outta Detroit is a white dude. The D is like the A in terms of Black population/history so it would be crazy if the biggest rapper outta Atlanta was a white dude too lol.

Big Sean doing his thing tho.

 

[David_TheMan]

By this I mean, what cities do you imagine would have a larger presence in hip-hop by making waves on national scale but never really did? If you're from there, feel free to post some material of the local acts and perhaps explain why nobody or just one or two artists popped hard enough (label politics, hood politics, crab in a barrel mentality, etc).

For me I'd say;
D.C. (outside of Wale)
Baltimore
Boston (outside of Guru, Statik Selectah and...Benzino )
Cleveland (I don't know anybody outside of BTNH but that may be my ignorance)
Not a city but Mississippi and Alabama not producing anybody outside of KRIT and Rich Boy is very surprising

With the black presence in these places it's surprises me that they're underrepresented in hip-hop

Gucci Mane from Bessemer
Montgomery, AL had Dirty
jackson, MIssissippi had David Banner

 

[tuckgod]

Alabama not producing anybody outside of Rich Boy is very surprising

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

By this I mean, what cities do you imagine would have a larger presence in hip-hop by making waves on national scale but never really did? If you're from there, feel free to post some material of the local acts and perhaps explain why nobody or just one or two artists popped hard enough (label politics, hood politics, crab in a barrel mentality, etc).

For me I'd say;
D.C. (outside of Wale)
Baltimore
Boston (outside of Guru, Statik Selectah and...Benzino )
Cleveland (I don't know anybody outside of BTNH but that may be my ignorance)
Not a city but Mississippi and Alabama not producing anybody outside of KRIT and Rich Boy is very surprising

With the black presence in these places it's surprises me that they're underrepresented in hip-hop

miss - rae sremmurd, david banner

 

[Shadow King]

Gucci Mane from Bessemer
Montgomery, AL had Dirty
jackson, MIssissippi had David Banner

miss - rae sremmurd, david banner

I forgot about David Banner and Rae Sremmurd
Didn't know who Dirty was
I know Gucci is originally from Bama but he reps ATL so hard its difficult not to call him an Atlanta artist.

 

[H.I.M.]

I also don't understand how D.C rap didn't pop off, there's hella variables at play.

- crack
- it's the seat of government for the nation
- so many Black colleges
- it's still in a way kinda Southern
- they kinda had a front row seat for the New Jack Swing wave

One word: GOGO

Rap has only been the most popular genre in DC for about 6 years. GOGO Dominated the music scene for about 4 decades here.

Nobody wanted to be a rapper in the 80's/90's/2000's. As soon as gogo died off amongst the youth...you started seeing rappers from the city pop up that were hittin nationwide

 

[BrothaZay]

Dallas

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

By this I mean, what cities do you imagine would have a larger presence in hip-hop by making waves on national scale but never really did? If you're from there, feel free to post some material of the local acts and perhaps explain why nobody or just one or two artists popped hard enough (label politics, hood politics, crab in a barrel mentality, etc).

For me I'd say;
D.C. (outside of Wale)
Baltimore
Boston (outside of Guru, Statik Selectah and...Benzino )
Cleveland (I don't know anybody outside of BTNH but that may be my ignorance)
Not a city but Mississippi and Alabama not producing anybody outside of KRIT and Rich Boy is very surprising

With the black presence in these places it's surprises me that they're underrepresented in hip-hop

Cleveland has Cudi and MGK
DC has Logic , Shy Glizzy , Fat Trel and countless others
Banner from Mississippi