How does NY regain their OWN IDENTITY??

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Hopefully cats like Joey Badass and Action Bronson get more shine.
And as much as ASAP Rocky is defined as just a southern clone, I think he's developing his sound, so who knows.

Plus the vets are still doing it (Nas, Jay, to a certain extent Fab, 50 etc)
 

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So yall posted some interesting examples, and there are a few artist like those mentioned that are doing their "own" thing. I don't know, I feel like the hipsters have sorta crushed the gentrified buildings, in that a "remake" of what life is really like in more places becomes part of what rappers lyrics display. Sorta of like what Biggie said, when he something to the extent that if you see butterflies and bees then that's what you rap about, but if you seeing mayhem then that's what you write/rap about. Right now Bed Stuy has tons of young white folks living in those row houses...........can you really still rap about a crime ridden place, when the reality is less of that?? If yall see what I'm saying??? Off course, I can easily negate everything I said, b/se the beauty of art/rap is no matter where you from you talk/rap about anything...

NYC will be fine, it is a shrine to Hip Hop as the birthplace, its legacy is intact...and will continue to bring more artists to the game, whether or not they get the "radio play/sales/popularity" is another question...
 

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and if Clams Casino actually didn't look at producing as a side hustle, include him too.

Harry Fraud doesn't even use that many soulful samples. He takes a lot of rock shyt and flips it.

As for NY and the sound, we love that Rick Ross sounding shyt. We don't even look at it as Southern to be honest. That Lex Luger /Southside shyt lights shyt up anywhere. That's some get hyped music.

Producing is only his side hustle :damn:? What's the main one? Been banging those instrumental mixtapes like crazy for some time now, he's dope
 

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NY coming back. Give it 2 more years. NY is slowly going thru what happened out in the west a few years back.
 

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This aint the New York of decades past. The city has no flavor whatsoever anymore.....the Koch and Dinkins eras were something else, yeah it was dangerous place to navigate but it was fun as hell too and people had alot of character.

Unless you're old enough to remember NYC the way it used to be, you won't realize how important this just the music in general in NYC regardless of genre.
 

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There are three pages and not one nikka from New York has mentioned Nicki Minaj....THAT'S NY problem right there.

Instead of bigging up artist u do have, u have New York radio dissing her.
 

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Give Makaveli his due or find a NY local that has enough stage presence & integrity to have mainstream appeal to unite the hip hop community.
 
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