Ebro says Drake doesn't have a regional sound and identity and is out of touch ; UPDATE : BOI-1DA Puts His Cape on & Responds

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

 

[Piff Perkins]

These same goofs used to praise this shyt and say he had something for everybody. Now this. This nikka Ebro is a whole Oakland nikka that try to act and sound like he from New York. "My G". nikka shut the fukk up. Lol. This shyt done went into corny territory. Same goofy nikka who was willing to play Drake music over native NY nikkas shyt on Hot 97. And tried to JUSTIFY that shyt. They even smoking this nikka in the comment section. The industry full of shyt.

I may generally agree with regional criticism of Drake but this here is 100% facts. Ebro relished not playing NY artists and specifically told them to make ATL records to get play.

People saying Kendrick doesn't have many west coast records are missing the point. No matter what Kendrick does he ALWAYS has a home base to back to because he's from the west coast. Which is why he hopped on that track and sounded so effortless.

The Toronto sound, as I remember it, was largely that original Weeknd sound from Illangelo, Jeremy Rose, and Doc McKinney. 90s r&b samples with reverb (the "underwater" sound), spaced out tracks.


But was that a general Toronto sound or a specific movement of the time, that isn't really a thing anymore? Because we all remember Drake being heavy on that Houston shyt at the very time, and you can hear how chopped/screwed shyt influenced the track I posted. Flip side...whether it's 1994 or 2024 you know what the west coast sounds like. Whether it's the 80s or right now you know what "Queens rap" sounds like. Those aren't trends or movements, they're cultural staples of regions.

 

[jwinfield]

 

[jwinfield]

The Toronto sound, as I remember it, was largely that original Weeknd sound from Illangelo, Jeremy Rose, and Doc McKinney. 90s r&b samples with reverb (the "underwater" sound), spaced out tracks.


But was that a general Toronto sound or a specific movement of the time, that isn't really a thing anymore?

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Ebro and Drake are both half Jewish. There's no reason why Ebro and his cohosts are still on the air.

Ebro is a big reason why Hot 97 fell out of relevancy nationally and internationally. Rosenberg is trash and a culture vulture, Ebro is trash and was once a programming head for Hot 97, and Laura Stylez is a literal paperweight like DJ Envy.

Ebro spent a whole decade shytting on different rappers but did NOT promote the alternatives. That's some psyop shyt. It's like Ebro's role is to ensure every rapper he claims to dislike actually gets as big as possible. Do do not EVER trust a word that comes out of his mouth.

Hot 97 had an Italian who was involved in a racial clash against Blacks decades ago literally working inside their studio for many years until it was outted sometimes before the pandemic.

Facts… the Italian dude was involved in the death of Yusef Hawkins

Ebro been a bytch ass nikka from jump…

 

[straightcash]

Facts… the Italian dude was involved in the death of Yusef Hawkins

Ebro been a bytch ass nikka from jump…

Thanks for the info.

Murder of Yusef Hawkins - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They need to update that article to mention the Hot 97 fallout somewhere.

 

[spliz]

I may generally agree with regional criticism of Drake but this here is 100% facts. Ebro relished not playing NY artists and specifically told them to make ATL records to get play.

People saying Kendrick doesn't have many west coast records are missing the point. No matter what Kendrick does he ALWAYS has a home base to back to because he's from the west coast. Which is why he hopped on that track and sounded so effortless.

The Toronto sound, as I remember it, was largely that original Weeknd sound from Illangelo, Jeremy Rose, and Doc McKinney. 90s r&b samples with reverb (the "underwater" sound), spaced out tracks.


But was that a general Toronto sound or a specific movement of the time, that isn't really a thing anymore? Because we all remember Drake being heavy on that Houston shyt at the very time, and you can hear how chopped/screwed shyt influenced the track I posted. Flip side...whether it's 1994 or 2024 you know what the west coast sounds like. Whether it's the 80s or right now you know what "Queens rap" sounds like. Those aren't trends or movements, they're cultural staples of regions.

To be fair for Drake. When he had 40 producing most of his shyt. That was his sound and alotta people associated that with Toronto.

 

[Turbulent]

Somebody from Toronto put us on some more shyt. Not that generic 40 shyt. I want to see more of the classic Toronto sound.

Love that Kardinal track/album. He was kinda the main dude back then in Toronto.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Ebro is distancing himself from Drake before people start looking at those sex trafficking allegations. Especially since Drake and Ebro's "cousin" were so close

But nah seriously he's probably right

 

[Left.A1]

I may generally agree with regional criticism of Drake but this here is 100% facts. Ebro relished not playing NY artists and specifically told them to make ATL records to get play.

People saying Kendrick doesn't have many west coast records are missing the point. No matter what Kendrick does he ALWAYS has a home base to back to because he's from the west coast. Which is why he hopped on that track and sounded so effortless.

The Toronto sound, as I remember it, was largely that original Weeknd sound from Illangelo, Jeremy Rose, and Doc McKinney. 90s r&b samples with reverb (the "underwater" sound), spaced out tracks.


But was that a general Toronto sound or a specific movement of the time, that isn't really a thing anymore? Because we all remember Drake being heavy on that Houston shyt at the very time, and you can hear how chopped/screwed shyt influenced the track I posted. Flip side...whether it's 1994 or 2024 you know what the west coast sounds like. Whether it's the 80s or right now you know what "Queens rap" sounds like. Those aren't trends or movements, they're cultural staples of regions.

Even this shyt is just 808s and Heartbreaks with a RnB nikka singing falsetto. This ain't no regional sound, their whole shyt is copy and pasted. There's never been a "Toronto" influence on hiphop in the way that The East South and West have had on the game.

 

[Billie Jean]

Ebro corny no matter what he says

 

[King Sun]

That Toronto aound seems like early Eric Bellinger shyt

 

[tremonthustler1]

I may generally agree with regional criticism of Drake but this here is 100% facts. Ebro relished not playing NY artists and specifically told them to make ATL records to get play.

People saying Kendrick doesn't have many west coast records are missing the point. No matter what Kendrick does he ALWAYS has a home base to back to because he's from the west coast. Which is why he hopped on that track and sounded so effortless.

The Toronto sound, as I remember it, was largely that original Weeknd sound from Illangelo, Jeremy Rose, and Doc McKinney. 90s r&b samples with reverb (the "underwater" sound), spaced out tracks.


But was that a general Toronto sound or a specific movement of the time, that isn't really a thing anymore? Because we all remember Drake being heavy on that Houston shyt at the very time, and you can hear how chopped/screwed shyt influenced the track I posted. Flip side...whether it's 1994 or 2024 you know what the west coast sounds like. Whether it's the 80s or right now you know what "Queens rap" sounds like. Those aren't trends or movements, they're cultural staples of regions.

I wish this were still true, but now you couldn't use that sound without even younger dudes from NY thinking you're dusty. It's even true of the West because it felt other than Game who had a West Coast sound but was generally using the poppin producers of that time, anyone who tried to come out of the West was either super regional (Bay Area) or outsiders would look at them weird if they stuck to G-Funk.


It's tough for Toronto to have a cultural staple or sound because for the longest time, Toronto was an afterthought. If it had nothing to do with Caribana, what was Toronto to anyone? The closest Toronto had were those early Drake records where everything was moody R&B that 40, Boi-1-da, T-Minus did. Then Drake just hopped on everyone else's wave the way Hov used to.

Hov near the end was Walmart sonically, interesting since Mos Def compared Drake to Target.

 

[JustCKing]

This was my introduction to anything Toronto:

 

[Blessings]

So nobody posted music authentically Toronto…lol