What did you people from outside of the south think of southern Rap in the 2000s.

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I used to get hate listening to southern rappers from mostly east coast biased Canadians of the older generation. But in my era I knew 36 mafia juve and BG stans who would also listen to Ghost, Wu Mobb etc. We still cared about lyricism.

No limit was for the casuals up here. I was listening to southern rap since suave house and rap a lot. My boys were more versed on 36 mafia and cash money. I liked lil John but the crunk era wasn't for me. Of course dungeon family and attic crew. First time I heard Missipi or Alabama rappers I thought it was a whole different language. I had to listen intently then it clicked but at first it was a challenge. Always fukked with ball and g, Scarface etc. That was all accessible. It was the thicker accents that we had to decipher and learn to listen into. As long as the beats were good and lyrics. It didn't matter.

From the outside looking in. I break my shyt down like... Heavy east coast music in the winter. Southern music and West coast in the summer. It works very well with the seasons. As an east coast biased rap fan my fav album of all time is atliens
 

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Compared to this era, its not as bad as I originally thought it was..

But back then, most of us saw the South as a joke...destroyed hip hop, c00nery music etc.
Why ya'll say it destroyed hip-hop? Was it the subject matter of the rap?

c00nery I can kind of see I saw a recent video of Kodak Black making a rap about driving a cyber truck while most the world is currently boycotting Telsa and Elon with that said the song goes hard.



 

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I was a teenager in NYC growing up during the south's peak (the 2000s). For the most part I enjoyed the south's music. Young Buck from G Unit was the highlight of the Beg For Mercy album for me, most of that album had 50 & Banks (two NY rappers) with Buck also having a verse.


Lil Wayne was VERY popular in NYC in the late 2000s.
 

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I mean there were ups and downs but there were enough dope artists like Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, Scarface, OutKast, UGK, Goodie Mob, Slim Thug, Z-Ro
 

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Stop it. NYC created Hip Hop. If the south was doing Hip Hop that means they sounded like us first. Y'all were doing what we did first.
yall was sampling east coast music? artist? James Brown beats? get the fukk outta here
 

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yall was sampling east coast music? artist? James Brown beats? get the fukk outta here

Your argument is stupid and confirms you are clueless about hip hop history because way before sampling, the first popular break beats in the early/mid 70's Hip Hop were from songs such as "The Mexican" by Babe Ruth and "Apache" by The Shadows and they were European bands. LOL @ you thinking dropping James Brown name actually meant you were saying something. :heh:
 

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outside of outkast, scarface and UGK

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Your argument is stupid and confirms you are clueless about hip hop history because way before sampling the first popular break beats in the early/mid 70's such as "The Mexican" by Babe Ruth and "Apache" by The Shadows were from European bands. LOL @ you thinking dropping James Brown name actually meant you were saying something. :heh:
:dead: Funky Drummer shut down any BS you talking about
 

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:dead: Funky Drummer shut down any BS you talking about

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You totally missed the point. The HoneyDrippers who have a very popular breakbeat from "Impeach The President" were from NYC but that's not the point.
Europe. James Brown, The Honey Drippers, all from different parts of planet Earth yet all contributed to the early popular break beats in early/mid 70's Hip Hop. So you bringing up James Brown when the conversation is about NYC creating Hip Hop doesn't make any sense because James Brown wasn't the only person being used for break beats.
 

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I’m from Cleveland we was listening to atl shyt and chopped and screwed music like we was from there.

That up north shyt didn’t get that much play up here. I hadn’t heard jay z until I went to school.
 
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