Your top 5 all-time Most musically gifted black cities

[Samori Toure]

Not consistently, no.

I can literally run thru Toni Braxton, Usher, TLC, Luda, all trap music, Laface Records, Outkasts, the Dream, countless producers and writers, Sean Garrett, 112, TI, Xscape, Silk, the ATL list is endless beyond those names, and hasn't taken a break for 30 years.

Baby Face nem from Indianapolis. Who you forgot about was Gladys Knight.

 

[jadillac]

Baby Face nem from Indianapolis. Who you forgot about was Gladys Knight.

He is from Indy, but Laface was Atlanta based thru out the 90s and early 00s,

 

[Black Magisterialness]

House is from Chicago.

New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz.

I've corrected myself on Jazz. But I never attributed house to Detroit, check my reply to @How Sway?

 

[Hey_zeus]

No Minneapolis?

 

[TMBlue]

Not consistently, no.

I can literally run thru Toni Braxton, Usher, TLC, Luda, all trap music, Laface Records, Outkasts, the Dream, countless producers and writers, Sean Garrett, 112, TI, Xscape, Silk, the ATL list is endless beyond those names, and hasn't taken a break for 30 years.

Toni Braxton is from Baltimore tho, not ATL.

 

[Samori Toure]

Toni Braxton is from Baltimore tho, not ATL.

Usher is from Tennessee. I think around Chattanooga.

 

[jadillac]

Toni Braxton is from Baltimore tho, not ATL.

I know, but Y'all aren't getting what I'm saying. These ppl were all ATL based as artists.

 

[UnQuantized]

Detroit
KansasDo your research

 

[Leasy]

Crazy how people dont have Philly on their list . From Rap to Soul aint nobody ahead of Philly besides Detroit and NYC.

 

[get these nets]

Feb 7, 2024