HipHopDX.com asks: Has the south ruined hip hop?

[GRIMEStheMENACE]

This article is so poorly written and so tone deaf holy shyt

For real. After reading it I still didn't see their point of The South ruining Hip Hop.

 

[Cynic]

The south has evolved the genre.......

 

[Booker T Garvey]

the south is more "corporate" friendly.

let's keep it real...Ice-T and NWA on the west coast making anti-police music, Public Enemy on the east coast...these were headaches for major labels, they stayed in the news back in the day for non-music related shyt too especially when those LA riots happened

those days are dead now...they can just focus on making money and music with the south

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Hi, From the south. But got fam up north and was raised up and down the coast.

The answer is NO. The south has brought and continues to bring heat. Sonically and Artistically. The only thing it lacks is lyrics, which can be offsetted by the amount of numerous flows we have birthed and have gotten jacked for. The south for the past 2 or so decades has been the nucleus of hip hop and black culture as a whole. And hip hop has been doing just fine.

The artist Future alone has not only influenced the sound of hip hop dramatically but the sound of urban music, he got cats like PND up in Toronto running to his producers for crying out loud.

The south simply slowed down midwest flows that were already unlocked.
- Midwest breh who has lived in the South AND the east coast.
Y'all stole OUR sound like cali did and dumbed it down, took the "smart" violence out, and then preceded to turn nikkas gangs into monkey shyt, too.

 

[Cynic]

the south is more "corporate" friendly.

let's keep it real...Ice-T and NWA on the west coast making anti-police music, Public Enemy on the east coast...these were headaches for major labels, they stayed in the news back in the day for non-music related shyt too especially when those LA riots happened

those days are dead now...they can just focus on making money and music with the south

West coast ushered in the Gangster rap era from Public Enemy and Tribe Called Quest.


Did you just erase the mid-90s till mid 00s ?


The south makes sonically pleasing music that makes people turn up....


The energy and innovative production makes up for the lack of lyrics/substance

 

[L. Deezy]

that whole move units mentality is what really hurt hip hop. Growing up i had no idea what my favorite rappers was selling nor did i care. Now everyone thinks they are Pocket A&R's. Let them jews handle sales, u just listen to the music.

Its not my philosophy..but just ask the typical southern artist and its about the money to them.. no sense of the history.. nothing..

Shyt they make is redundant..

 

[Booker T Garvey]

West coast ushered in the Gangster rap era from Public Enemy and Tribe Called Quest.


Did you just erase the mid-90s till mid 00s ?


The south makes sonically pleasing music that makes people turn up....


The energy and innovative production makes up for the lack of lyrics/substance

not sure i follow what you're trying to say and I mean that with no disrespect bruh

just pointing out that the south won't rabble rouse like that with their music, it's party shyt and ignorant, but it doesn't really challenge the status quo like that

and if you're trying to run a business, the last thing you need is one of your top earners making a song that requires you to calm political situations down and possibly harm your future business dealings...

 

[scrt]

HIP HOP having its best year of all time this year!¬11111!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it aint a fukking problem fukk HIPHOPDX PUT THAT ON RECORD

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

HipHopDx showed their true colors with that article

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

No variety
Payola


Ruined hiphop

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

it's simple the SOUTH provided a better business model.....

regardless how horrible these songs may sound to the SO CALLED HIP HOP PURIST....

they are marketable to a demographic which still makes HIP HOP relevant in this modern era.....

Hip Hop is like ENERGY it doesn't DIE it just CHANGES....

And what you have with pathetic media outlets like HIPHOPDX and a lot of the pseudo B boys on here is that they can't adjust to the CHANGE

And haven't accepted the fact that they have gotten OLD

 

[Knicksman20]

I think they have but I also think us allowing cacs to dictate what's hot also contributed to the demise of hip hop. The south has always churned out that one hit wonder music, but when that kind of music became the forefront is what put the nail in the coffin

 

[the cac mamba]

the internet was huge in killing it

'download, upload, before the dutch rolled'

 

[Cynic]

not sure i follow what you're trying to say and I mean that with no disrespect bruh

just pointing out that the south won't rabble rouse like that with their music, it's party shyt and ignorant, but it doesn't really challenge the status quo like that

and if you're trying to run a business, the last thing you need is one of your top earners making a song that requires you to calm political situations down and possibly harm your future business dealings...

You just revere the controversy and that's all....

Right now the south is the only thing keeping Hip hop innovative and fresh

I miss the samples/punchlines/metaphors/storylines but we've got Cole/Kendrick covering that

Eitherway music is entertainment now... not a force for social change

I think they have but I also think us allowing cacs to dictate what's hot also contributed to the demise of hip hop. The south has always churned out that one hit wonder music, but when that kind of music became the forefront is what put the nail in the coffin

40 million blacks versus 170 million cacs.......erm yeah :usherlol:

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Has the South ruined Hip Hop? No, but it's complicated.

*Has the South ruined Hip Hop? Yes &everyone knows it but we're too p*ssy to call them to task so we'll use female language that means nothing, 'complicated'.