Will the South ever fall off?

[How Sway?]

The landscape in hip hop has changed in terms of longetivity, platinum sales etc. Those days for the most part are over. Digital downloads, filesharing, social media etc have driven hip hop in a new direction.

The south has started musical trends, dances , language, slang (essentially things that encompass "hip hop")

And don't get me started on how the south's trap sound birthed Chicagos 'drill music' the list goes on

"Influenced" and 'birthed' have two different meanings dawg

 

[86\*/98]

Fall off?



MUTHAfukkA.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

"Influenced" and 'birthed' have two different meanings dawg

The south birthed and influenced Drill music

 

[How Sway?]

You gotta admit, the south pretty has had hip hop in a stranglehold for the past 10 years as far as the sound and production.

I feel like some of you are either have a completely different perception of today's music or you just dont leave the crib.

 

[How Sway?]

The south birthed and influenced Drill music

breh drill music aint nothing but gangsta music. Nikkas in the chi BEEN talking about "bussin at the opps" for like 20 years or so...only difference is that the newer generation is/was more influenced by waka flocka and lil wayne.

Plus the word "drill music' sounds catchy so people just ran with it.

 

[Atlrocafella]

You gotta admit, the south pretty has had hip hop in a stranglehold for the past 10 years as far as the sound and production.

I feel like some of you are either have a completely different perception of today's music or you just dont leave the crib.

Some of them just wish the south stayed In the south and didn't invade their cities.

 

[Poitier]

The biggest effect the South has is on the production sounds. I will readily admit that. But as far as overall running the game, they aren't. You can't deny their past impact has effected the sound of the current music. With that said, they don't run rap. No region runs rap. It's a collection of different artists all across the map now. Rap relatively sounds so much alike now, that people can barely tell who's from where

Act like vocal inflection isn't a result of guys like Wayne, TI, Gucci and Future ain't make every other rapper change their delivery.

 

[Lewis Black]

The south birthed and influenced Drill music

Drill is just basically trap lite, people think we sound southern anyway lol.

The south started the whole shirtless dreadheads dancing in the video, keef just took it down to pg level

See im a chi nikka and i can admit the south influenced us

@HishElsayed

Since im a dip stan I agree but in hip hop today, the party music scene is southern dominated.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

breh drill music aint nothing but gangsta music. Nikkas in the chi BEEN talking about "bussin at the opps" for like 20 years or so...only difference is that the newer generation is/was more influenced by waka flocka and lil wayne.

Plus the word "drill music' sounds catchy so people just ran with it.

So are u sayin that Younch Chop/ Keef/ OTF 300 didn't get influenced by Gucci, Zaytoven etc? I fukks with them GBE nikkaz heavy, but if u can't hear trap music in their music then idk what to tell you

 

[How Sway?]

Some of them just wish the south stayed In the south and didn't invade their cities.

A lot of these nikkas only listen to DJ premier/Boom bap hip hop and they still feel like that what's hot out here.

Just cuz YOU listen to that style of rap, doesn't mean that the general masses are listening to the same style of rap that you listen to...

 

[How Sway?]

So are u sayin that Younch Chop/ Keef/ OTF 300 didn't get influenced by Gucci, Zaytoven etc? I fukks with them GBE nikkaz heavy, but if u can't hear trap music in their music then idk what to tell you

Nah Im not saying that, i just said they were influenced by flocka and wayne lol

BUT you said South trap music BIRTHed drill music but that's not completely true.

 

[How Sway?]

as a matter of fact the dude who really kicked the drill movement off didn't even sound like a typical southern rapper.




skip to 3:00

 

[Lewis Black]

as a matter of fact the dude who really kicked the drill movement off didn't even sound like a typical southern rapper.

Aight i agree, the south never birthed it, but its without a doubt the most influential aspect. Apart from the slang, its basically up south trap

 

[hex]

Im pretty sure hip hop was about parties

These conversations are always funny because people defend the wackest shyt under the banner of "well, rap was party music", as if there wasn't a solid 15-20 years where you actually had to have lyrics, in addition to making party records. Hip-hop has regressed back to it "just being party music". Like disco or some shyt.

If the Golden Age didn't happen....if Rakim didn't make people step their bars up....and we went from Kurtis Blow to Migos, I could kinda understand saying "it's just party music, who cares?".

Fred.

 

[hex]

Matter of fact....look at the top southern guys from the last 2 years. Ross, Wayne, TI, J Cole, and Jeezy got/had bars. 2 Chainz, not so much, but I don't expect he'll be around much longer.

It's not "just party music". If that was the case all these 1 hit wonders would be selling records. If that was the case all those dance trend rappers, and ring tone rappers, would still have careers. Think about all the southern cats that came and went, that had "hits". You gotta put some kind of lyrical effort into your music to actually have a career, even today.

Fred.