Were You Surprised To Find Out ASAP Rocky Was From New York?

Harry B

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It's true, I mean hiphop is a new york thing. Most styles were created by east coast cats. So most rappers that came up during the 2000s and 90s were influenced by styles created by Rakim, Jay, Nas, Big, Atcq, krs, dipset, lox, puff and the list goes on. But also of course influenced by rappers from their own regions (to a larger extent). Now I don't think that worthless rappers like yung joc or lil scrappy were influenced by anyone from the east coast and I'm not saying that they are as influenced as Dj Premo.
 

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the kids an obvious New Yorker.. from Uptown with a downtown flavour

nikka french braided and ridin on tha handle bars, would think he a LA nikka


thats todays rap, theres no more regional sound, everything is hybrid mixed sounding, borrowing from every region....

ipod generation.. easy to access albums so quick compared to waiting to buy with your own money.

but, the story goes Yams lived there for a short period of time and came back and put Rocky on to it and he it had just a influence of him as Wu-Tang, Black Moon etc
:manny:
 

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No I always knew he was from New York and Southern rap music was an influence and I don't see what the big deal is

new yorkers are supposed to be setting trends, not jocking other people's styles. :mjpls:

its just more noticeable when a new york rapper does it
 

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Sometimes people just have to grow and leave behind the dated sound that y'all so desperately want to hear from them.




:huhldup: @ a Primo beat in 2012
 

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why would I be surprised when he says he's from Harlem on damn near every song




the most texas nikka on this board just laid the law :wow:
follow suit nikkas

already


aint like rocky jus took shyt n didnt fukk with nobody in texas..


like jermaine did with da brat n when he reinvented kriss kross for the bomb album

its a reason why snoop had jd n da brat clones in the what would u do video..

atleast rocky reached out to bun killa kyleon paul wall nem
 

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No i wasnt surprised. Harlem is the womb of gay rappers and fruity movements.
 
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