Was this '95 Source Awards really a pivotal moment in hiphop?

[Doobie Doo]

The first Sauce award had a lot of classic moments

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Smiff Wessuns first album was better than Outkast's though.........and I F with Outkast heavy

No.

 

[FreedMind]

they stay hating on the south

 

[Cat piss martini]

Outkast opened the south the fukk up.

 

[Take It In Blood]

What doc is this from?

 

[Phantum]

Like someone earlier said everything was regional and people didn't really listen to (or know about) other rap acts across the country. I considered myself a true hip hop junkie back then (word to 89.9 and Fat Beats) and whenever I would take road trips down to DC or whatever I would always be amazed at the different styles of music I would hear on the radio. It was expanded even further when I went to college and met people from all over the country.

How would the crowd have been if the awards were in Los Angeles or Atlanta? We're not all snobs up here, some people just didn't know. That being said it was an exciting time for hip hop and I miss those days.

 

[MyMindWarpsandBends]

Probably not then, but it has become so in light of the South’s almost 20 year run in hip-hop. It’s amazing how nikkas wrote anything from the south off as unskilled back then only for those very artists to go on to influence every region in hip-hop in the present day, but the east and west coast was droppin classic albums damn near on accident at that point so I kinda see how nikkas overlooked them at the time either way though his point still stands and he had a lot of heart to say that in a room full of nikkas who clearly wasn’t tryna hear it, especially with the amount of tension in the air that night

 

[omnifax]

Man I remember waking up late one night as a kid to turn the tv off and this just happened to be coming on. I was super excited but man when the announcer said it was in Brooklyn I knew it was gonna be a problem for any artist that wasn't from Brooklyn or New York in general. Correct me if I'm wrong but New York was very patriotic about their artists down to the borough at that time. If I'm not mistaken even Redman caught a little bit of jeering for winning over a NYC artist. Obviously it wasn't nearly as pronounced as when it was Death Row, Outkast of Bone but they were hostile to anyone not from New York.

 

[King Frost]

Now NY is the laughing stock of rap music

the biggest bangers from NY is a chick from detroit, a chick that acts like nikka, a nikka that sound like fewcha and a non black chick who admits to drugging & robbing nikkas

not to mention, no black people running ny radio morning shows

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

Yes, there's so much that might have ended different because of that shyt

Death Row vs. Bad Boy

Nas going pop because he didn't win lyricist of the year over Biggie

End of boom-bap because of the emphasis of Biggie's more commercial shyt.

The South left with a chip on their shoulder because they kept getting booed or ignored.

One you've forgot was Bone Thugs-N-Harmony performed on the night too 4 months after Eazy E died and Death Row Records were super deep (including Dr. Dre and Suge Knight) in the first few front rows

 

[Knicksman20]

@spliz

Nah the most pivotal moment was Tupac getting robbed & shot which snowballed

It's funny how other regions can have bias (especially today in this day & age) toward their own but NY does it & it's labeled as hating on others. And if most of you were familiar with NY or even how things were back then you'd know NY booed EVERYONE; especially their own artists if they were wack. You nikkas ever see or been to the Apollo back in the day? I told this story in the Booth & spliz will tell you that us NY'erd fuked with all the regions if they were nice. I had the Outkast single Players Ball back in the day. One of my older brothers used to play MC Ren in his car driving around in Brooklyn too. Just because some dj's & execs during that time were "hating" on the south or west doesn't mean NY wasn't fuking with other regions music which we were

 

[CrimsonTider]

What changed hiphop was Master P showing how boring East coast rap was

 

[Phantum]

What changed hiphop was Master P showing how boring East coast rap was

I personally found Master P wack but he definitely inspired a lot of rappers to do it on their own which is commendable.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

This is why I laugh when the Booth tries to downplay the significance the Source had on the culture at the time. This award show proved it. Before this southern artists were looked at mainly as making booty shaking music. Outside of the Geto Boys, Kast was the first group that really commanded respect. But they weren’t content with just being a group from the South. They wanted that national respect. People tend to forget hip hop was all east and west coast at that point. Kast opened the floodgates

I watched this when it first aired and still think Smif N Wesson shoulda won

 

[BmoreGorilla]

What changed hiphop was Master P showing how boring East coast rap was

He played a major part but Kast was the first group on a mainstream level that was really respected. They really sounded like the South where a group like the Geto Boys could’ve been mistaken for a west coast group if you didn’t know any better