Which section of Brooklyn do you think had the biggest impact on Hip Hop history?

[get these nets]

Which section produced the people or things that made the biggest impact on Hip Hop history as of today, June 2025?

And name at ( least 3) of those people or things ?

 

[Canada Goose]

Bed Stuy IMO



Jay Z
Fab
Papoose

 

[BigMan]

Bed Stuy/Clinton Hill/Fort Greene area
Crown heights
Brownsville

 

[I'm Blackman]

Aren't big and jay from bed stuy?

If so....easily bed stuy.

edit: big is...."live from bedford stuyvesant" just popped in my head.

 

[boskey]

Brownsville:
Masta Ace
Most of Boot Camp I think
MOP
Smoothe The Hustler and Trigga The Gamble
DR Period
Chubb Rock
Ka

 

[No Homo]

Bed Stuy

Kane
Jay
Big
Kim
Ol Dirty
Fab

 

[Buckeye Fever]

As a non-New Yorker, I love seeing that map with the different sections of BK.

We've all heard many of those sections/neighborhoods mentioned in songs(i.e. "Brooklyn's Finest")

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Aren't a couple Wu members from BK?

 

[Pazzy]

Bed Sty off the rip.

 

[get these nets]

Where in BK are the Fat Boys and Whodini from?

Also, where is (super-rockin) radio dj Mr Magic from?

 

[Erratic415]

Bed-Stuy

Brownsville has it for boxing though

 

[mson]

Where in BK are the Fat Boys and Whodini from?

Also, where is (super-rockin) radio dj Mr Magic from?

FB are from East NY

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The whole Bedstuy-Brownsville area.

 

[Reptile]

Bed Stuy IMO



Jay Z
Fab
Papoose

nikka Fab and Pap had NO impact on hip hop.

 

[staticshock]

Which section produced the people or things that made the biggest impact on Hip Hop history as of today, June 2025?

And name at ( least 3) of those people or things ?

Do you have maps like this for the other boroughs?