How come Baltimore and DC never produced any rappers?

[IllmaticDelta]

I think identity is a problem. Americans think on terms of "North East" "South" "West Coast" and neither city fits perfectly into one of those boxes

DC and Baltimore are HISTORICALLY the Upper South. IDK why people keep tryna change this reality

 

[Dad]

DC has legendary artist under every genre.

From punk to gospel - we’ve made legends.

 

[boskey]

DC and Baltimore are HISTORICALLY the Upper South. IDK why people keep tryna change this reality

Maybe Amtrak changed things?

 

[CashmereThoughts]

DC and Baltimore are HISTORICALLY the Upper South. IDK why people keep tryna change this reality

historically? If you say so. Only thing “southern” about both of those places to me is migration.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Maybe Amtrak changed things?

What does this mean? The Amtrak will get you to New Orleans or to philly/Ny/Boston from the region

 

[FRIED MASON]

Bossman was a dope rapper outta Baltimore :

 

[IllmaticDelta]

historically? If you say so. Only thing “southern” about both of those places to me is migration.

Yeah, those places have always been part of the South. My fam with deep roots in those areas who were born in the early 1900's that I met when I was younger always considered those regions as "The South"

Two Souths
Here’s where the monolith falls apart, however. As critical as Berlin’s findings about the North and South was his revelation that the South really consisted of “two Souths”: an Upper and a Lower, distinguished, among other things, by their histories, geographies and outlooks.

The Upper South (think Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and later Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and D.C.) had been marked by its earlier history of manumission following the Revolution; it also had a more negative outlook about slavery’s future as a result of its increasingly inhospitable soil (for more on this, see Amazing Fact, “What Was the Second Middle Passage?”).

The Lower South (think Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South, Carolina and Texas), by contrast, had never embraced manumission fever, and because there was still so much money to be made off the cotton trade (see Amazing Fact, “Why Was Cotton King?”), it never wavered in its commitment to the slave economy.

Why Did Free Blacks Stay in the South? African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

 

[boskey]

What does this mean? The Amtrak will get you to New Orleans or to philly/Ny/Boston from the region

I've never heard about anyone taking the train anywhere South personally. But I know that the DC to Boston route is used by millions of people a year sometimes a couple times a week

 

[IllmaticDelta]

DC has legendary artist under every genre.

From punk to gospel - we’ve made legends.

From my observations, the Upper South doesn't create GENRES of music like the DEEP SOUTH. Deep South is the roots of American music but the Upper South has produced plenty of legendary musicians throughout/within those DEEP SOUTH originated forms.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

I've never heard about anyone taking the train anywhere South personally. But I know that the DC to Boston route is used by millions of people a year sometimes a couple times a week

I just used it yesterday. Spent a couple days in Baltimore and came back to NY

 

[Dad]

From my observations, the Upper South doesn't create GENRES of music like the DEEP SOUTH. Deep South is the roots of American music but the Upper South has produced plenty of legendary musicians throughout/within those DEEP SOUTH originated forms.

We created go-go and that’s all that matters

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Get the best rapper from both cities and form a group.

 

[boskey]

I just used it yesterday. Spent a couple days in Baltimore and came back to NY

lol thats exactly my point breh. Nobody uses Amtrak to go south of DC. But DC/BMore to New York is regular in both directions

 

[NZA]

too much of a mix of the dominant nearby regions with no distinct style of their own. too close to people who do those styles better. the same could be said for las vegas or oklahoma

 

[ogc163]

Because it's a weird mix of Southern and East Coast culture, they just don't "fit" anywhere convenient, and their rappers are not talented to transcend that. A branding/marketing concept called MAYA helps make sense of it...