Hot Take; 50 Cent killed NYC hip hop
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verhonggen
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50 has always been the hottest rapper from NY, but funny thing is grodt is afilled with west coast production 
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
It was that fakkit, diddy
letti cook
Superstar
Fabolous said this and 50 responded by doing exactly what Fab was accusing him of.
Roxx the King
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This is true.
id argue it had the artist but the climate and culture couldn't sustain itself.
every single major popular rapper save for maybe cardi and Nicki to come from New York in 2 decades has dikk rode another city
Iverson_64
Superstar
This has been said often but it's not actually true.
50's run didn't even last long enough to have a major impact on NY hip hop long term.
Before 50, Jay and DMX were the biggest selling rappers from NYC.
And guess what? None of them fell back on classic boom bap production. Both Jay and X became hot from working with producers who had a commercial sound that stayed away from that sound.
Even Diddy used The Chronic as the template for executive producing Ready To Die as an album for Biggie.
The hottest NY acts were generally not boom bap. Even Tribe and De La Soul had a sound less gritty sounding than the style of beats Nas and KRS One were rapping over. They're beats were sampled and had drum breaks but were much lighter sounding and smoother by comparison.
The real reason NYC rap fell off commercially is due to rappers embracing sounds not associated with the classic NYC boom bamp sound which predates 50 Cent. Joey tried to bring it back but he was bigger on the blogs than on the charts when 1999 dropped.
50's run didn't even last long enough to have a major impact on NY hip hop long term.
Before 50, Jay and DMX were the biggest selling rappers from NYC.
And guess what? None of them fell back on classic boom bap production. Both Jay and X became hot from working with producers who had a commercial sound that stayed away from that sound.
Even Diddy used The Chronic as the template for executive producing Ready To Die as an album for Biggie.
The hottest NY acts were generally not boom bap. Even Tribe and De La Soul had a sound less gritty sounding than the style of beats Nas and KRS One were rapping over. They're beats were sampled and had drum breaks but were much lighter sounding and smoother by comparison.
The real reason NYC rap fell off commercially is due to rappers embracing sounds not associated with the classic NYC boom bamp sound which predates 50 Cent. Joey tried to bring it back but he was bigger on the blogs than on the charts when 1999 dropped.
Oww
Real talk, the future of NYC Hip Hop ended up in a Bergen County jail on some dumb ass shyt.
And Dre said Low and theory was inspired the chronic
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this killed NYC hip hop....and any form of regional music everywhere because guys like Ebro really couldn't break new artists even if they truly wanted to.
Also with moguls like Diddy and Hov making more money from outside of music and not really pushing and new New York artists, the shyt dried up.
New York Rap died when 50 and Cam fell off like someone in this thread said.
this killed NYC hip hop....and any form of regional music everywhere because guys like Ebro really couldn't break new artists even if they truly wanted to.
Also with moguls like Diddy and Hov making more money from outside of music and not really pushing and new New York artists, the shyt dried up.
New York Rap died when 50 and Cam fell off like someone in this thread said.