Without NYC, Hip Hop would have no direction

[Big Mel]

I was responding to the dude who said NYC didn't nurture other eastern cities' talent.

Bleek has like 3 gold albums and Wais P from Da Rainjahz is putting out fire with DJ Premier nowadays.

 

[Malik]

Breh, literally 70% of all hip hop legends are from New York

Pac - Harlem
Biggie - Brooklyn
Nas - Queens
Jay - Brooklyn
DMX - Yonkers
Rakim - Long Island
Big Daddy Kane - Brooklyn
KRS - Bronx
Pun - Bronx
LL Cool J - Queens
Kool G Rap - Queens
The Lox - Yonkers
50/G-Unit - Queens
Cam/DipSet - Harlem
WuTang - Staten Island

 

[Taadow]

I was responding to the dude who said NYC didn't nurture other eastern cities' talent.

Naw, he ain't say that...he said NYC didn't nurture THEIR OWN talent. What you said didn't have to do with that...

 

[Big Mel]

A few things happened to NY that they caused themselves.

1. They eat their young. Whenever a new rapper comes up, the older ones don't help them out. They also try and destroy each other rather than building each other up. Southern vets build up younger artists and show them the ropes.

2. They didn't let other east coast talent shine. East coast is more than NYC, they didn't support of other cities like the South does. ex: N.O. ATL, HOU, MIA, etc. all support each other.

3. Outside of a few producers...their production was hot garbage. Other regions were bringing better production. 50 cent over a Dr. Dre beat>> 50 over an east coast producers beat. The south's production goes without saying.

Read number 2.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

its kinda cute how every other state has to form Voltron in order to "compete" with our stature. (its still no competition....but hilarious nonetheless)

 

[Yoda]

its kinda cute how every other state has to form Voltron in order to "compete" with our stature. (its still no competition....but hilarious nonetheless)

yeah fukkin right. L.A. ALONE is 10x better than NYs past,present and future

 

[keithj]

yeah fukkin right. L.A. ALONE is 10x better than NYs past,present and future

10x is quite a big multiplier to put on LA being better than NYCs whole existence

Go home, you're drunk.

 

[Taadow]

Ah, so...what's this "direction" we have now that NYC is responsible for, exactly?

 

[PIFF101]

Hiphop has it's cycles. NYC birthed it, West Coast had it bubblin, the South then made an impact. Just recognize we started it and continue in some capacity to be in it. We know the South controls the "sound" and we've been but without us ain't no blueprint.

 

[Big Mel]

yeah fukkin right. L.A. ALONE is 10x better than NYs past,present and future

You know how stupid you look spewing that bullshyt with a sig jocking Killah Priest?

 

[NYC Warrior]

You know its funny, these west coast nikkas direct more hate towards us then we have ever done towards anybody and do the same exact shyt they been accusing us of from day one.

It would be better if nyc dropped dead? Yeah well give it a few more years and the Mexicans will have either killed off or chased you nikkas out ya own hoods anyway.

 

[Big Mel]

Compton is predominantly Hispanic now.

 

[Taadow]

You know its funny, these west coast nikkas direct more hate towards us then we have ever done towards anybody and do the same exact shyt they been accusing us of from day one.

It would be better if nyc dropped dead? Yeah well give it a few more years and the Mexicans will have either killed off or chased you nikkas out ya own hoods anyway.

Calm down, cuzz - this isn't hate...it's the truth.

I mean, do you all want to take credit for the "direction" hip-hop went?

...and why did hip-hop stop following NYC's "direction", or did it?

real talk: most of the people i've seen talmbat NYC fell off are NYCers. Y'all need to see what your collective viewpoint is...

 

[BigMan]

A few things happened to NY that they caused themselves.

1. They eat their young. Whenever a new rapper comes up, the older ones don't help them out. They also try and destroy each other rather than building each other up. Southern vets build up younger artists and show them the ropes.

2. They didn't let other east coast talent shine. East coast is more than NYC, they didn't support of other cities like the South does. ex: N.O. ATL, HOU, MIA, etc. all support each other.

3. Outside of a few producers...their production was hot garbage. Other regions were bringing better production. 50 cent over a Dr. Dre beat>> 50 over an east coast producers beat. The south's production goes without saying.

we need more solidarity with the East Coast, Boston to NYC/Long Island to Jersey to CT to PA to Upstate NY to Rhode Island

 

[Rominati]