NY nikkas, why was North Bronx left out?

[mson]

The same reason south Brooklyn was left out. Caribbean areas that are more into reggae than hip hop lol. Pop smoke is the reason Canarsie is even known now. Years ago it was laughing stock of a neighborhood.

There's been a good amount of Caribbean people in hiphop though.

 

[mathematik]

L-Swift from Natural Elements repped NorthEast

 

[Silky Johnson]

And Where Are You From Sir?

Williamsbridge

 

[Robbie3000]

OP on Brooklyn’s Finest nikkax wasn’t shouting Greenpoint, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay & Mill Basin

lol

But he always shouted out BK as a whole. All the Queens rappers repped their hoods, but it was always “Queens get the money”, Same thing with Staten Island and Long Island.

I was listening to KRS One yesterday and it hit me, he went out of his way to exclude North Bronx.

Well now that I think about it, Manhattan rappers only repped Harlem. No mention of other hoods outside of uptown.

From the outside looking in, You New Yawkers are very territorial. Y’all even claim boroughs before the city.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

But he always shouted out BK as a whole. All the Queens rappers repped their hoods, but it was always “Queens get the money”, Same thing with Staten Island and Long Island.

I was listening to KRS One yesterday and it hit me, he went out of his way to exclude North Bronx.

Well now that I think about it, Manhattan rappers only repped Harlem. No mention of other hoods outside of uptown.

From the outside looking in, You New Yawkers are very territorial. Y’all even claim boroughs before the city.

That's cause Manhattan has always been Yuppieville outside of Uptown and parts of Lower Manhattan like Canal Street

 

[LoMax30]

Geechie Suede from 196th and Valentine and Sonny Cheeba from 187th and Tiebout so Fordham neighborhood.

I used to know a baaaaad Rican from this hood

 

[ISO]

I used to know a baaaaad Rican from this hood

shyt hole area infant shot in the face today there

 

[K.O.N.Y]

EAST BRONX

true birthplace of hip hop

We east and north peoples constantly have to defend the bronx's honor

I tell people when ya think of the dirty bronx, yall thinking about dem south and west peoples

 

[ISO]

EAST BRONX

true birthplace of hip hop

We east and north peoples constantly have to defend the bronx's honor

I tell people when ya think of the dirty bronx, yall thinking about dem south and west peoples

Foh

 

[The War Report]

Middle class Caribbean neighborhoods get no representation in NY hip hop. Same story in queens it’s all about south Jamaica, Hollis,

never in life have I seen someone yell I’m from Laurelton, Cambria Heights or Rosedale

Shea Davis is from Rosedale and his gun goes blam.


I was around Mott Haven and shyt is different.

 

[Rev]

spent a decade living off Pelham Pkwy and White Plains Rd


PS - first month living in that apt with my wife, who was my 8 month pregnant girlfriend at the time, we got a knock on the door from the cops on a Sunday morning asking questions after an Albanian teen was found in a bag outside of my building's basement.

he got stabbed up and wrapped in plastic...zipped up in a bag, when it happened that was it

 

[UberEatsDriver]

There's been a good amount of Caribbean people in hiphop though.

im not talking about cAribbean people per say. I’m talking about middle class cAribbean neighborhoods. It’s a large coincidence that Queens and Brooklyn had the same issue as the North Bronx as far as recognition. A lot of the cAribbean rappers came from thorough hoods like crown heights, Flatbush etc. cAribbean but at least they were the hood.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Shea Davis is from Rosedale and his gun goes blam.


I was around Mott Haven and shyt is different.

Perfect example. Shea Davis speaks on the Bronx way more than Rosedale and if you go to Rosedale you can see why

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Because them niccas be mad late on everything, they started rocking Marm's 3 years after South Bronx cats started rocking them. Further, them dudes is geographically isolated, Morrisania and Mott Haven being connected to and easy to get to other parts of the city made for a faster spreading of culture and ideas.

Geographically connected neighborhoods are often going to hold more weight, 145th and Broadway and Polo Grounds holding the sway it does culturally inside Harlem is also because of where it is on map in comparison to say 116th Lenox or Lex.

This thread could also be made about the East Bronx Castle Hill/Soundview section, my family used to call that shyt "Japon" spanish for Japan because they considered it so far. If it wasn't for Pistol Pete and Sex Money Murder causing havoc they would also be trivial on some hood legend tip.

Looking at the current rap scene is weird to me as a older head, because all these new rappers are from West Bronx hoods that bluntly speaking with the exception of 183rd/Creston their names didn't ring bells growing up.

How are they isolated if the same trains 2/5 connect to them?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

There weren't that many black people in those areas in the 80's-mid90s.

There were def a lot of black people there in the year 2000. Being I used to be in Canarsie a lot of as youngster and Canarsie did not get any type of recognition at all till pop smoke became a thing. I can’t recall any NY rapper showing Canarsie love and Canarsie has at least been taken over by blacks since the mid 90s