the point is you jogging out all these names when the majority of them suffered from over-saturation and regurgitating the new-york sound. thats why the eastcoast fell off so hard. you've got 100+ acts sounding similar tryna compete for recognition(record sales) in the same market, whereas goodie mob trotted out something TOTALLY different with very little competition in the south, and despite all that, i bet you goodie mob didn't sell more than 10% of the list on the east coast (public). the majority if not all of those sales of soul food were from the south and the west.
but we go back to the fact the goodie mob is to the south, what wu tang is to the east coast. so it doesn't make much sense when you rolling out names like: blahzay, dwellaz, artifacts etc etc. so why isn't Goodie Mob even recognised in 1/1000000th of the light that wu tang is?
sure wu prospered from solo albums, but what you're saying when you said "staten island was looked at as foreign as acts from atlanta' is that new yorkers looked at wu's hardcore/gutter sound as if they were as foreign as some country boys who rapped about life in Martel homes....
east coast stations playing wu music all through the 90's and them not playing goodie mob music.... SAYS IT ALL.
