Who was the king of NYC rap in 1993.....

[PHamm]

Snoop

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

The term "KONY" didnt really start catchi on until about 1994/1995.

but I would give it to Onyx

This is a great point, because after Onyx dropped, a lot of rappers started using the wild, energetic, screaming flow. From LL, to KRS, and even laid back Grand Daddy IU started doing full energetic songs. There is even a thread on this site about how rappers started using that style after Onyx.

 

[Dad]

Snoop

 

[maxamusa]

The term "KONY" didnt really start catchi on until about 1994/1995.

but I would give it to Onyx

Feel you; its just slang I'm using.



Sticky was dead nice tho

 

[Rasille]

Probably KRS

 

[Art Barr]

Big L was buzzing back then? the only commercial record I ever heard from him was "put it on" or "mvp" ..... and that was mad late. I thought he was always underground.

Devils son = was the most sought after and hardest to find promo vinyl that year.








Nobody was on big l level at all.

The whole hate big l after his death thing.
was from people who were not cognitive at all.
when big l debuted and were not in hiphop.

Big l = best in nyc in 1993 easy.



Art Barr

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

There’s needs to a doc on this

I would argue that there wasn’t a KONY in 92-93 and that was what set the stage for 94.

 

[Art Barr]

The term "KONY" didnt really start catchi on until about 1994/1995.

but I would give it to Onyx

Ll was rhe boy king in 1984 till.

Krs quotable of kings lose crowns ushered in rhe new school way of thought.

Kony is really a phase out pl school way of thought term and phrase. That when re-instituted. Fueled ol school phased out tpy semantics. That nyc and hiphop eventually would succumb to. Ushering it back into the the fad phase. Hiphop origonally was slated to become. Till it has been fully misappropriated out and here we are.


Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

There’s needs to a doc on this

I would argue that there wasn’t a KONY in 92-93 and that was what set the stage for 94.

Again.

Krs ushered in the new school way of thought. Phasing out the ol school kings are crowned ideal.

Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

This is a great point, because after Onyx dropped, a lot of rappers started using the wild, energetic, screaming flow. From LL, to KRS, and even laid back Grand Daddy IU started doing full energetic songs. There is even a thread on this site about how rappers started using that style after Onyx.

The styles war era all had styles that were offkey. As the technical renaissance had not been ushered in by nas.
to phase out the styles war era at that point.



Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

So in your opinion being a member of a group disqualifies you from being that guy?


crazy cause almost everyone mentioned in here is a member of a group.....I wasn't there just asking

@maxamusa
Actually. This happened and phased out the idea totally.
That a group guy could be the best emcee.
like back in the ol school way of thought.




This event changed prospectively how any rapper would get on after this. Aa you had to be nicer and more advanced as a solo emcee.
Plus capable of out rhyming every group member for dolo in your first studio debut Appearance on reel to reel.


Art Barr



Parker lewis ; mental note.


I won some mom and pop journalist award for newcomer of the year for my debut acapella intro on bon n nip the release.

Bon n nip won a few mom and pop piblocation awards for rhis album. Yet we had a wack guy trying to manage and it would always ruin everything professionally. When said person should not have even really been there tbh.



On this album ju out rhymed all of us.
Plus if you peep any ju feature.
ju always held up the ideal and precedent set from k solo debut on epmd. Even when k solo and i myself was sleep on ju floor.











Art Barr

 

[maxamusa]

The styles war era all had styles that were offkey. As the technical renaissance had not been ushered in by nas.
to phase out the styles war era at that point.



Art Barr

I'm watching the yankees get smoked RN and just heard BIG say "94; NOW I EXPLORE NEW HORIZONS"





93 was most certainly an interesting transitional year.

 

[Art Barr]

I'm watching the yankees get smoked RN and just heard BIG say "94; NOW I EXPLORE NEW HORIZONS"





93 was most certainly an interesting transitional year.

It was basically the gateway transistion year for the prison industrial economy and communication act. That wpuld be used to systemically usher black life and anything in it into more erosion. Moral and urban social decay to here we are.


Art Barr

Parker lewis...mental note...

*big l was also undergoing the rap era's worst admin delay followed up by jeru. So we never got to hear the next best styles war era rappers in jeru and big l.
Debut lp in their respective era.
or sonic landscape and sweetspot creatively.

Jeru debuted a fall later but arguably had 94 lp of the year with nas. While big l did not debut till 1996. After the communication act. Plus mca way saturation marketing was ushered in on mary j my life and jiggy had systemically and fully eroded any quality in rap moving forward.

Art Barr

 

[Controversy]

Q-tip was the KONY

 

[Awesome Wells]

Thing is, nobody talked that "king" sh*t back then.

NYC moved together as a culture. All that "king of the city" sh*t was what f*cked everything up.

LL and KRS were leading the pack. But Q-Tip and Buckshot were wild popular too.