POLL: which cities produced the most Authentic Street/Hood music

[Doomsday]

She ain't wrong, most of the notable Bay Area rappers past and present were in the streets before rap (The Jacka, Dru Down, Keak Da Sneak, JT The Bigga Figga, Richie Rich, etc) and/or had strong street affiliations (MC Hammer, Yukmouth, E-40, Mistah FAB, etc). The Bay Area ain't what it used to be but the 70s all the way up to the 2000s was wild af if you lived in SF/Oakland/Richmond/EPA/Vallejo at the time.

Not really.

SF and Vallejo were never that bad. Not nearly to justify the raps. The fact that people think San Francisco (one of the safest, richest, and whitest cities) is bad at all is a testament to how suburban the bay actually is as a whole. EPA is notoriously safe to the point of that even calling it street/hood is laughable. It never made sense to me that a city that was only dangerous for a few years 30+ years ago still gets a merit badge. 100k people (entirety of Palo Alto) and zero murders this past year. ZERO. EPA is lower than the state average for crime-- meaning it's safer than California's standard. It's not hood at all.

There's a reason why California rappers have been exposed for being the fakest rappers. The actual living environment never added up to the raps. We can agree to disagree about the rappers you mentioned because I can go in.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

L.A. and N.O.

Honorable mention: Chicago, Detroit, Memphis,

 

[BronxFleeZ]

Lol, ya dudes kill me

 

[FreedMind]

Not really.

SF and Vallejo were never that bad./QUOTE]

its been hella shootings in SF recently while you're on a messageboard talking about how safe it is outside.

 

[Unknown Poster]

New Orleans is the winner with 30.

I voted for NO. It dont get no realer than the NO and Im an NY nikka.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Not really.

SF and Vallejo were never that bad. Not nearly to justify the raps. The fact that people think San Francisco (one of the safest, richest, and whitest cities) is bad at all is a testament to how suburban the bay actually is as a whole. EPA is notoriously safe to the point of that even calling it street/hood is laughable. It never made sense to me that a city that was only dangerous for a few years 30+ years ago still gets a merit badge. 100k people (entirety of Palo Alto) and zero murders this past year. ZERO. EPA is lower than the state average for crime-- meaning it's safer than California's standard. It's not hood at all.

There's a reason why California rappers have been exposed for being the fakest rappers. The actual living environment never added up to the raps. We can agree to disagree about the rappers you mentioned because I can go in.

Lol at the knee-jerk reactions throughout this post. The key words were "the 70's all the way up to the 2000's", EPA's been gentrifying since the late 90s and the moment they knocked down Whiskey Gulch and opened up the Four Seasons there it was bound to happen anyway. I remember all of the above places in the late 90s/2000s and they were all very different than they are today with the exception of Richmond which has pretty much stayed the same though its also starting to gentrify.

Anybody who spent time in SE SF, the Mission, Fillmore, Lakeview, etc. in the 80s/90s/early 2000s already knows wassup with that. SF is nothing like it used to be period, if you never spent time in those areas before 2004 you're not qualified to talk tbr.

 

[Doomsday]

its been hella shootings in SF recently while you're on a messageboard talking about how safe it is outside.

Lol

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. SF is a suburb, you can flex all you want but the facts remain.

Lol at the knee-jerk reactions throughout this post. The key words were "the 70's all the way up to the 2000's", EPA's been gentrifying since the late 90s and the moment they knocked down Whiskey Gulch and opened up the Four Seasons there it was bound to happen anyway. I remember all of the above places in the late 90s/2000s and they were all very different than they are today with the exception of Richmond which has pretty much stayed the same though its also starting to gentrify.

Anybody who spent time in SE SF, the Mission, Fillmore, Lakeview, etc. in the 80s/90s/early 2000s already knows wassup with that. SF is nothing like it used to be period, if you never spent time in those areas before 2004 you're not qualified to talk tbr.

I'm very qualified to speak. I'm a millennial but I know what I know and I'm not speculating shyt. You can deflect from the topic all you want though. SF has never been dangerous. EVER. Only by bay area standards, all the real hoods of America laugh if you say you from there. SF only has stripes locally, and that's due to the environment of the bay more than anything.

EPA has never been dangerous. EVER. It was bad PER CAPITA for a few years. That's it. Palo Alto in it's entirety is notoriously safe.

There's a reason why everyone lies and says they're from Oakland, and even that is gentrified nowadays.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

I'm very qualified to speak. I'm a millennial but I know what I know and I'm not speculating shyt. You can deflect from the topic all you want though. SF has never been dangerous. EVER. Only by bay area standards, all the real hoods of America laugh if you say you from there. SF only has stripes locally, and that's due to the environment of the bay more than anything.

EPA has never been dangerous. EVER. It was bad PER CAPITA for a few years. That's it. Palo Alto in it's entirety is notoriously safe.

There's a reason why everyone lies and says they're from Oakland, and even that is gentrified nowadays.

East Palo Alto was never part of Palo Alto, it used to be called Ravenswood. They're in two separate counties anyway, EPA is unincorporated San Mateo county while Palo Alto is Santa Clara county. lumping EPA and Palo Alto together is like lumping St. Louis and East St. Louis together.

The rest of your comments just point out like I already suspected that you weren't around the Bay Area before it gentrified.

 

[Doomsday]

East Palo Alto was never part of Palo Alto, it used to be called Ravenswood. They're in two separate counties anyway, EPA is unincorporated San Mateo county while Palo Alto is Santa Clara county. lumping EPA and Palo Alto together is like lumping St. Louis and East St. Louis together.

The rest of your comments just point out like I already suspected that you weren't around the Bay Area before it gentrified.

Doesn't matter if they are two separate counties. The population of both are the same demographic of people. Saint Louis and East Saint Louis are two different cities period you don't pass a stop light and go from STL to East Saint Louis like Palo Alto to EPA.

EPA has never been dangerous even when the per capita numbers gave it attention. SF has never been dangerous and as I said, is a testament to how suburban the bay is in general that it would ever be considered anything.

I know what I know from an insiders perspective. If you never lived or are not affiliated with people that live in the worst areas of the aforementioned what can you tell me? nikkas couldn't walk the areas that they gas online but want to preach to me about how dangerous it is lol.

 

[bigrodthe1]

Well this just happened in Detroit...Team Eastside Members including lead rapper Peezy just got hit with the RICO. If you read the indictment they got them from social media posts and Team Eastside videos
Feds: 9 members of Detroit's '6 Mile Chedda Grove' gang charged with racketeering, murder

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Lol

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. SF is a suburb, you can flex all you want but the facts remain.



I'm very qualified to speak. I'm a millennial but I know what I know and I'm not speculating shyt. You can deflect from the topic all you want though. SF has never been dangerous. EVER. Only by bay area standards, all the real hoods of America laugh if you say you from there. SF only has stripes locally, and that's due to the environment of the bay more than anything.

EPA has never been dangerous. EVER. It was bad PER CAPITA for a few years. That's it. Palo Alto in it's entirety is notoriously safe.

There's a reason why everyone lies and says they're from Oakland, and even that is gentrified nowadays.

breh, those areas of sf he named were as real as any hood. very few cities, if any, are dangerous on a whole, even in oakland's criminal heyday you still had rockridge, montclair, golf links, and the hills which were basically six figure oases. no one is claiming SF as a whole was some murder capital, but you wasn't rollin thru HP in the early 90's thinking how soft nikkas must be.

 

[28 Gramz]

Well this just happened in Detroit...Team Eastside Members including lead rapper Peezy just got hit with the RICO. If you read the indictment they got them from social media posts and Team Eastside videos
Feds: 9 members of Detroit's '6 Mile Chedda Grove' gang charged with racketeering, murder

 

[GPBear]

I thought this was gonna be a difficult choice between NYC and LA but then I saw you put Oakland on the list, which gives me a cope out.

Clicked immediately

:raiderwin:

12 votes Not bad :curlgrin:

 

[GPBear]

She ain't wrong, most of the notable Bay Area rappers past and present were in the streets before rap (The Jacka, Dru Down, Keak Da Sneak, JT The Bigga Figga, Richie Rich, etc) and/or had strong street affiliations (MC Hammer, Yukmouth, E-40, Mistah FAB, etc). The Bay Area ain't what it used to be but the 70s all the way up to the 2000s was wild af if you lived in SF/Oakland/Richmond/EPA/Vallejo at the time.

Breh. You took me back.

I was born in Oakland in 94 - I feel like I was got the Tupac blessing
Moved to fukk, like El Cerrito, then did my kindergarten in Vallejo. Whatchu know about about Mare Island

damn...memories and shyt homie...

How about those hella official Sikh temples in the hills when you roll up to SF from wine country. As a kid I was always like "damn, that's money right there "


Now you go back...and it's just fukking it's like all the white chicks in mocassins and round john lennon glasses decided to pick up their bags and move to the Bay. I don't blame them, but it's exactly that gentrification that forced my family to move because housing prices were absurd and both my parents were teachers at like Richmond and shyt so they weren't getting paid shiiiyut.

Oregon's not bad tho there's no good music here so I feel like I can craft my own soundscape. A lot of trees, both literal and figurative

 

[IdealMan]

Detroit nikkas sound NOTHING like drill rappers. They have their own style that they use heavy like the video cleanface posted so stop with the nonsense and it's funny that you acting like Detroit rappers are unknown but you knew a WHOLE lot about every nikka I named the thread was stupid to begin with but you went FULL retard when I mentioned reasoning why Detroit would be a obvious chose. You forgot that Big Meech, a Detroit nikka, influenced the whole damn ATL trap sound huh and Drill music was EXACTLY what you said it was a TREND that produced 100's of chicago cats who sounded EXACTLY alike and made maybe one or two of them household names but you want to say Em, Dej Loaf and Big Sean are the only cats in the D that ANYBODY ever listened to...
sit yo monky ass down fool