How does he feel some type of way that the Shameik wasn't from NY? Damn near the entire cast were from NY, other than he, Ashton and dude that played Deck. Shameik had Rae's mannerisms from the beginning, and he said he'd met and would call Rae for insight. Dude did an excellent job.
His only legit argument was the OH stuff, but they spent a few couple of episodes there. They couldn't spend too much time on it, because of all of the other events.
He did a good job portraying Raekwon, so did the Odb actor and Dave east. These are actors, being from new york is a plus but that shouldn't be the number one requirement to play in a series. It's a bio fiction, based on reality, of course they will change things, not be accurante, glamourize some events and what not. Except if they got your character wrong like, you're a snitch or a coward or a piece a shyt when you not, they shouldn't have that much concern
A lot of great movies based on real people were not accurate too, that's part of hollywood, that don't mean the final product will be trash. Everybody appreciate paid in full, but the real story is much more gruesome, interesting and got more intricacy than the movie. And sometimes it's the opposite, like breaking bad for example