This post shows why you and others like you erroneously think wu and other east acts were bigger than they were while downplaying other artists from other areas
true
but its not as bad as hes making it seem.
hes making it sound so archaic.
Im strictly talking hip hop. Outkast was still getting booed at the source awards in 96-97. There was no south shyt on the radio. A few chi town cats was making noise, but it wasn't like they was screaming mid west on records
The only time I caught non east coast acts was on rap city and yo mtv raps. It's not like now where every song needed an intro of you screaming your city, click and street on every track. Wasn't no internet to research. You got it from the source or right on or some shyt
come on man. just admit that you were just too caught up in wutang to pay attention to much else. you aint gotta lie to kick it. I'm from the same city as you.
it was 1995. and outkast got booed because them winning that award was suspect. sure it didn't help that they were from the south, but people forget that chit was suspect. they weren't the only southerners on stage that night. the dam 69 boyz performed, girated & humped the same stage that night without any problems.
and outkast was on the radio everywhere back then. they were laface/arista's top rap act outside of bad boy. they were guaranteed radio slots breh. they were on power 99. and they kept a rotation of acts from other coasts on power 99. not a large rotation but still.
the internet was indeed around and thriving.
they didn't have to scream Midwest on records. we already knew what it was.
besides, BET & the box was all you needed really. I didn't even watch yo! mtv raps.
Lol you gonna tell me what I see or what
I didn't even talk about no damn concerts. Maybe they're going to Poland or GBCountries I live in (France, Belgium, Italy) I've never seen a Bone show being promoted like that, etc. Does it mean they don't come? Never said that, I'm telling you that I see EPMD coming to Brussels in a couple of weeks, UK rookies like Jay Prince, Beatnuts were in Paris just last year (missed them
) but somehow don't see Bone ads or whatever. If they were as big I wouldn't have missed them for 20 years, is what I'm saying. Meanwhile if the Wu comes (regardless of which members actually come, which is the bullshyt they're on) it gets much more attention.
Why y'all so defensive though? It's not an indication of quality, 3-6 was never that big around these parts neither, don't mean they aren't great. Some styles just travel better, that's all.
not being defensive at all.
you claim that youre not aware, then fine. but you were already proven wrong in multiple threads by multiple people. and you came in this thread recycling the same post like clockwork.

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