After Crunk died, even the NY MCs that show the south love, still got pushed back in the backburner. When Jeezy blew up Summer of 2005, he legit made NY radio play 90% of southern shyt, and declared himself the King of NY with no pushback
That was also the time when 16 bar verses took a nosedive in quality and everyone from Gucci Mane to Lil Wayne flooded the market with mixtapes of party shyt with beats on some Master P shyt.
If you were on

, then you remember that thread when all the east coast vets were legit

when they said that Hip Hop quality died in Summer of 2005.