Did 2 Chainz Open The Gates For The East Coast Vs. The South?

[Big Mel]

No disrespect but are we expected to be impressed by your disconnection with what's poppin in hip-hop right now?

2 Chainz is hip hop to you?

also, since your "hip hop" barely counts anymore in the music landscape lagging behind pop & edm in sales & coolness, i'm not that disconnected.

 

[Mac Casper]

There's cities on the east coast that have absolutely STACKED scenes of hip-hop but they are completely introverted. A good example of this is a place like Boston, Providence, Baltimore. These places got huge hip-hop scenes with plenty of established artist throughout every region of the city.. but for for whatever the reason nobody is able to branch out beyond city limits

 

[Mac Casper]

2 Chainz is hip hop to you?

also, since your "hip hop" barely counts anymore in the music landscape lagging behind pop & edm in sales & coolness, i'm not that disconnected.

Hip-Hop comes in all shapes and colors

#1 on the charts is good reflection of the musical landscape

 

[Newzz]

It just aint all about the lyrics anymore. If it was, the East Coast would still be on top.

You gotta have beats and bars now.

Imagine if "Illmatic" came out in this era?

 

[Mac Casper]

It just aint all about the lyrics anymore. If it was, the East Coast would still be on top.

You gotta have beats and bars now.

Imagine if "Illmatic" came out in this era?

It'd still be a classic. Classic music is the definition of timeless

 

[Newzz]

It'd still be a classic. Classic music is the definition of timeless

But it'd flop even worse now than it did originally.

People aint checking for that no more.

Remember "Greatest Story Never Told"?

I thought it was a throwback to mid 90s hip hop and where's Sai?

 

[Mac Casper]

But it'd flop even worse now than it did originally.

People aint checking for that no more.

Remember "Greatest Story Never Told"?

I thought it was a throwback to mid 90s hip hop and where's Sai?

You might be right but it's hard to imagine a track like "Life's a bytch" being overlooked regardless the era it's released in.

 

[Newzz]

If your beats aint banging off top, you aint being checked for.

Its a drastic change from the golden era from when I was a youngin at 12 in 1995 where if your bars werent "tight", wasnt nobody checking for you. It was bars over beats then....now, it's beats over bars.

"Your style is played out like Kwame and them fukking polka dots!!!"

Nowadays, Kwame would be considered swag and probably a top 5 artist

 

[Newzz]

You might be right but it's hard to imagine a track like "Life's a bytch" being overlooked regardless the era it's released in.

Nas was pure hip hop. Bars over everything. "It Aint Hard To Tell" is still one of my favorite songs of all-time.....can you imagine that being played on the radio today?

"Cashin Out", "Mercy", "Amen", "No Lie", "Turn On The Lights", "It Aint Hard To Tell"....it doesnt fit in this era we currently in

 

[Mindfield333]

Jay-z and nas are still better than any rapper to ever come out of the south tho. Just saying that before these country fukks come in here with the bullshyt ,I see where this thread is going.

scarface. andre 3000. The D.O.C.

 

[Newzz]

Look at how Lupe is struggling to remain true to who HE is as an artist in the current climate. He's dumbing down his material to make it more "listenable" for the average listener, but he's a throwback artist for real.

 

[Newzz]

scarface. andre 3000. The D.O.C.

Are you saying that Scarface, Andre 3000, and The D.O.C. are touching prime Jay-Z and prime Nas lyrical abilities?

 

[M617]

There's cities on the east coast that have absolutely STACKED scenes of hip-hop but they are completely introverted. A good example of this is a place like Boston, Providence, Baltimore. These places got huge hip-hop scenes with plenty of established artist throughout every region of the city.. but for for whatever the reason nobody is able to branch out beyond city limits

because simply Boston is wack as shyt in the rap scene. How is the Boston scene gonna compare to an ATL, Houston,LA like scene. Nobody in this country gives a damn about Boston outside of sports esp when it comes to rapping about that g shyt because most people think Boston is soft....which it is compared to Baltimore and Philly

 

[OG Talk]

Are you saying that Scarface, Andre 3000, and The D.O.C. are touching prime Jay-Z and prime Nas lyrical abilities?

Andre and Scarface are both better than Jay Z... Since when has this been a debate in the Black community?

 

[Mac Casper]

Nas was pure hip hop. Bars over everything. "It Aint Hard To Tell" is still one of my favorite songs of all-time.....can you imagine that being played on the radio today?

"Cashin Out", "Mercy", "Amen", "No Lie", "Turn On The Lights", "It Aint Hard To Tell"....it doesnt fit in this era we currently in

It would of probably just come out differently at this point in time. It'd be produced by Alex Da Kid with a strong performance from a female R&B artist on the hook. The label would of thrown Large Professor's track in the bushes along with that MJ sample