NY should do what The West just did. Which artist from Kendricks generation can spearhead the movement and lead th show?

[Playaz Eyez]

Right. I’m like what kinda bullshyt is they on? Holler at me when the west puts together a show like this.

The show was 18 songs from Kendrick, not a Verzuz featuring 2 different groups/labels. Those were two entirely different shows/setups and you and the dude you responded two are totally delusional if you don’t think last nights show wasn’t as impactful (or even more) than the LOX/Dipset Verzuz.

 

[King Kai]

Ice spice's ass is the biggest thing in NY right now; no.
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[getmoney310cpt]

Sha EK or Dthang

 

[Consigliere]

When are we going to stop pretending that Jim Jones isn’t the KONY?

He could make this happen in a heartbeat.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

No disrespect but I'm not sure any city could do that. Maybe Detroit if they had a big artist (not Em) who could headline that shyt. There was so much specific, cultural and regional shyt at the pop out in an era where so many cities are just trying to sound like Atlanta or/and don't respect their legends. If you ever go to LA turn on the radio. You're gonna hear all types of regional shyt, you'll hear old ass Game records, you'll hear shyt like King Kunta from Kendrick which you wouldn't hear anywhere else. They support their shyt from legends to locals.

If I'm in NY there should really never be a day where I have the radio on and don't hear Biggie, Jay, or Nas. But I've been there many times and just heard the generic Hot 97 playlist, a couple drill tracks, and whatever new wack attempt someone made at an ATL club record thanks to Ebro. That shyt is killing the culture and then people wonder why Hot 97 went the way it did....

It really depends on where you go...removed from the radio, I live Bedstuy and when I'm walking around 90% of what i hear from cars and speakers is late 90s/early 00s NY shyt. I got a Tribe Called Quest jacket I rock a lot in the winter and I get props from folks of all ages when I'm out. Most bars play a mix of reggae, afro beats, some new shyt, but a lot of 90s/00s classics too. That Jay-Z/Mya Best of Me remix be doing NUMBERS in this city

 

[010101]

a nyc best of concert from the same era would be heavy on the hit records as much as fools joke HA*

 

[010101]

That’s how NY found themselves in the position they’re in now, pause, doing what some other nigs do/did. Just do NY, everybody thinks NY is the shhit, that’s why you see and hear so many people hating all the time, , ugly girls always hate the pretty girl and enjoy seeing her down…NY the fly pretty chick. Just bask in the flyness, gotta start leading again instead of following. It’s hard to do that nowadays tho with social media and everyone’s slang and style and bop being the same because everyone and everything is connected

Cali the shhit tho too, that was fire to see, the Kendrick shhit, 🫡

the culture still patterned off NYC image

that's one thing that is consistent they still come here to figure out what's fly

music is apart of the culture but when you really look at it it's our image that is the biggest money maker

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[Plankton]

Anyway, no NY artist could it pull it off. That City already lost it's cultural cache and sound eons ago.

Jay could pull it off but dudes were stressing specifics about a NYC rapper from Kendricks era. Jay is waaaaay bigger then Kendrick (pause) and is literally attached to The Barclays and Roc Nation so to say no NYC artist could pull it off is a bullshyt lie.

 

[How Sway?]

Who from NY is Kendrick’s peer currently? The answer like 7 years ago would’ve been Rocky, so currently, I just don’t think it would happen. Nas is still carrying that mantle, and he did a good job with the Hip Hop 50 event. The most popular/on the radar folks currently in Kendrick’s age group (let’s say 35-42) and it’s Nicki Minaj, and we know she’s a total shytbag and couldn’t get anybody together other than subordinates like JT and Ice Spice.

French montana

 

[Space Cowboy]

NY too competitive for this. They all hate each other meanwhile the west rides for each other (for the most part). The west been about mentorship since Dre found Snoop. It's always been about passing down the torch from Dre to Snoop to Game to Kendrick. Those that aren't about passing the torch and west coast family get the boot (see Game). NYC and the east coast however hasn't fostered a culture of passing down the torch. They were culturally about either being the best or fighting for scraps to be the best or underground dudes judging the mainstream (The Roots;etc). Artists like Mos Def ideally should have been handed the torch by mainstream NYC guys like Jay. Instead guys like Jay and Puff just ate and got fat and made it about themselves.

NYC hip hop is far more individualistic.

 

[spliz]

Biggest NYC artist from Kendrick and Drake's generation is Nicki. Thats why. But this thread is corny. And u west coast nikkas think it's still 1995 and always got our name in yall mouth. Worry bout yallselves. On the flipside. A nikka like Jay could do this shyt tomorrow and shut the whole shyt down.

 

[straightcash]

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

Wasn't there some posters here who been slobbing on A-Boogie's knob? Now you telling me he flopped?

Groups like the Nation of Islam and even the Shia mosque in Watts, where the 1992 truce was signed, helped build bridges between gangs in California in the early-90s and onward.

In New York, the NOI and Five-Percenters been losing influence since the mid-90s. They were the ones who championed unity and purpose. The Zulu Nation had lost most of its influence over time but took a really big hit after Bambaataa's pedo allegations went mainstream in the mid-2010s.

NY radio has never championed underground NY rappers, especially not those who have serious momentum. An independently-owned radio station with a diverse playlist would make a huge splash.

 

[Sabretooth]

This… biggest hope was Rocky but the city didn’t support him the way they should have imo

Cause he wasn't doing nothing but biting the South.

 

[Sabretooth]

New York wouldn't even support a rapper of that caliber,it's sad to say but it's true. NY radio is garbage and everyone took part in the youth not even respecting the OGs.

It's bleak for now.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Wasn't there some posters here who been slobbing on A-Boogie's knob?

I ain't gonna knock him, he dropped a great album even tho it flopped numbers wise. He's still a big enough star in his region to the point where he's able to pack out arenas all throughout the northeast, that's more than anybody else out of NY who debuted in the 2010s can say besides Nicki/Cardi/maybe Rocky. But he's clearly nowhere near the star that Kendrick is to be his NY equivalent that could pull off what he just did.