Here this shyt goes again...
I got love for Cali, but y'all nikkas get damn near delusional when y'all start talkin' and tryin' to negate NY just to pump y'all shyt up. Cause in all reality, y'all talk about how NY was so inferior and didn't have no good beats, etc... and whole time, all them nikkas y'all pump up that came from the West grew up on NY rap. shyt, LA had an all-hip-hop radio station in the 80s... you know good and hell well they played NY rap, cause there wasn't even enough Cali stuff out there yet to only play that on the station. They came up listening to NY hip-hop just as much as they listened to Cali shyt. And all of those artists you mentioned have just as many NY influences as Cali influences. Snoop was a Slick Rick fan, Kurupt's favorite MC was Rakim, all that shyt. Knock it off.