Breh took my talking point from the concert thread
There is nobody from NY from Kendricks era who can do it to this magnitude, closest thing was Rocky with Yams Day and even then that's not reduced to just NY artists and there is no way you're uniting all the NY gangs on stage for a special moment when the majority of these nikkas who blow up are teenage crashouts who blow up off of drill music where they're dissing dead opps and rival gangs.
The biggest "modern" rappers out of NY are females, a deceased Pop Smoke, then it's A Boogie who's album just underperformed, then it's Lil Tjay. The city has a long way to go before they produce a modern day male star on the level of Kendrick but idk how we get there because it's not gonna be a drill rapper who becomes that