What is the One Defining Song of Each Regional Hip Hop Center?

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If you had to pick one rap song that defined the sound of East Coast, Midwest, Down South, and West Coast rap, what would they be?

And why? Whether it's tone, flow, beat, most sampled, etc.

 

[BigMan]

Regional sounds don't really exist anymore

 

[Complexion]

 

[SATAN]

What era?

Every few years a region's sound changes.

Right now, the Pop Smoke sound is dominating New York. Literally every song out of there sounds the same

The Detroit sound and flow is dominating the Midwest

 

[George's Dilemma]

I think Its a G Thang is the one for the west coast. There is no other west coast song with that much impact.

 

[Kool]

For the West Coast I'm going with... "Nuthin But A G Thang" or "Let me Ride".


Nuthin but a G Thang



Let Me Ride

 

[CrimsonTider]

Regional sounds don't really exist anymore

Yes they do

 

[UberEatsDriver]

If you had to pick one rap song that defined the sound of East Coast, Midwest, Down South, and West Coast rap, what would they be?

And why? Whether it's tone, flow, beat, most sampled, etc.

regional or city?


For the east coast I’ll just put a track that features NY and Philly artist

 

[Black Haven]

What era?

Every few years a region's sound changes.

Right now, the Pop Smoke sound is dominating New York. Literally every song out of there sounds the same

The Detroit sound and flow is dominating the Midwest

Right, west coast instrumentals don’t sound like they did in the 90’s and 2000’s with the g funk vibes it’s the same for southern hip hop nowadays It doesn’t sound nothing like the 2000’s and below. Even the east coast sounds waaay different from the boom bap days.

 

[invalid]

regional or city?


For the east coast I’ll just put a track that features NY and Philly artist

Regional

 

[boskey]

West: G Thang
East: Shook Ones
Midwest: Po Pimp
South: This is the hardest one, but for some reason Yeah by Usher feels like the right answer

 

[Bryan Danielson]

West: G Thang
East: Shook Ones
Midwest: Po Pimp
South: This is the hardest one, but for some reason Yeah by Usher feels like the right answer

Ursha

 

[invalid]

Right, west coast instrumentals don’t sound like they did in the 90’s and 2000’s with the g funk vibes it’s the same for southern hip hop nowadays It doesn’t sound nothing like the 2000’s and below. Even the east coast sounds waaay different from the boom bap days.

Yeah but there are still lots of sampling from the 80's and early 90's going on. Like this Yo Gotti song.



Which samples Whodini - I'm a Hoe.

Same song sampled numerous times by Three Six and Master P.

Sounds are evolving, yes, but there are some songs that are so foundational to regional sounds that some artist keep returning back to draw from.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

The Midwest doesn’t have a regional hip hop song .

Detroit,Chicago and Cleveland were never connected like that In terms of rap .

If anything it would be a GhettoTech-House connection But I don’t know how big that was outside of Detroit and Chicago

 

[King Jove]

I guess when people say West they mean Los Angeles, or East they mean New York City. People say the South like it's one homogeneous region. The South has a bunch of styles and cultures. i guess Atlanta is the most popular city from the south but even then Atlanta doesn't really represent the south as a whole.

Still Tippin defines Houston more than any song from Atlanta, like Ha defines New Orleans than any song from Atlanta as well.