Who follows him is irrelevant
That guy is at least 5-8 years older than me and is from Bmore not NY. I don’t want to run a retro hip hop page about old NY rappers and drug dealers bro I’m good.
This guy didn’t come of age when NY “fell off” so he can’t speak on the factors that led to it and how NY reinvented itself back to relevance. He is an outsider. He doesn’t know what the youth was on 2007-2012 here.
The second point he made is terrible. Has he ever even stepped foot in a
Jimmy Jazz? What current NY rappers are dressed like
Jimmy Jazz mannequins? The current uniform of the rap game is a bunch of shyt NY nikkas were already wearing 10 years ago like BB Simon and Moncler. Pop Smoke was fly but not particular unique in the way he dressed in comparison to other NY rappers.
Not even sure why he’s bringing up 80’s rappers like Rakim, LL, Slick Rick. There’s been dozens of new fashion trends in NY since the late 80’s and even shyt from then has been revived and died again. Just a few years ago Brooklyn nikkas were wearing
Puma suits, MCM backpacks, Alexander McQueen scarfs and shyt. The guy still dresses like it’s 1988 in 2022 and isn’t from NY he can’t speak on NY fashion.