Whenever someone says something like "My city didn't bump Biggie and Nas" all you did was admit you and your city wasn't into Hip Hop.

[Plankton]

Me bringing this up stems from when GloRilla was trolling and said she was unfamiliar with Kanyes "Runaway" song when Kai Cenat was playing it on the piano and bunch of the comments were like "Kanye didn't get play out in Memphis."


It reminded me of when I'd hear all types of people saying stuff like "My city didn't bump Biggie and Nas." Saying your city wasn't bumping Nas and Biggie and you sticking your chest out as if that's a badge of honor just confirms you aren't a real Hip Hop head. The following are tapes I had in 1991. I was a kleptomaniac as a young teen so my tape collection was massive so it also included rock music:


1991:
WC and The Maad Circle "Ain't A Damn Thing Change
DJ Quik "Quik Is The Name"
NWA "nikkaz4Life"
Ice Cube "Death Certificate"
Cypress Hill
AMG "bytch Betta Have My Money"
MC Hammer "2 Legit To Quit"
Geto Boys "We Can't Be Stopped"
The Convicts
2 Live Crew "Sports Weekend "
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince "Homebase "


That's Cali, Texas, Philly and Miami. So if I was into other regions as far back as 91 but other regions say they wasn't listening to what was going on in NYC, then that just confirms they weren't really into Hip Hop music like that and they aren't real Hip Hop heads.

 

[Canada Goose]

Biggie was the most poppin rapper in 97, LAD went diamond. I'm pretty sure the masses in every black hood in America was bumping LAD lol.


I could see Nas being a regional act prior to 96 but once IWW came out everyone was listening to him. It's seems like only 2pac had a better 96 than Nas.

 

[MVike28]

Anyone who says that who was outside in 95-97 is a goddamn liar

 

[Ziggiy]

Nas and Biggie in their primes were multi-platinum artists. Nas had seven multi-platinum albums in a row from 96-2006 every city in the United States were at one point tapping into these artists music.

 

[Plankton]

outside of NY, no one gives a fukk about Illmatic. no one round my way was checking for that shyt when it dropped.

One example out of many

 

[bigde09]

Why is it so hard for NY dudes to accept that not everyone was into their artists

 

[DaHNIC82]

nikkahs just talk that bullshyt to sound cool and contrarian. Alot of these nikkahs favorite rappers from different regions actually studied Nas and Biggie



We did a interview with a upstart artist from out here(Cloudy) several years back and listening to his music the last person you would think he would say Influenced him was Nas. I was even surprised

 

[Plankton]

Why is it so hard for NY dudes to accept that not everyone was into their artists

And that's fine. But all you are doing is confirming you aren't a Hip Hop head. When you listen to a song like BoyZ N The Hood and 8 Ball, Dr Dre who is from Compton, is sampling NYC rappers, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and Rakim which sets the standard. Comptons Most Wanted sampling BDP on "Growing Up In The Hood." If someone all the way in Compton knows what's popping in NYC then that's the standard.

 

[bigde09]

And that's fine. But all you are doing is confirming you aren't a Hip Hop head. When you listen to a song like BoyZ N The Hood and 8 Ball, Dr Dre who is from Compton, is sampling NYC rappers, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and Rakim which sets the standard. Comptons Most Wanted sampling BDP on "Growing Up In The Hood." If someone all the way in Compton knows what's popping in NYC then that's the standard.

People have different tastes. Imagine saying not liking certain artists means you’re not a hip hop head. Yall be on your own dikks so much man

 

[Ill-Mind]

Here y’all go again with the NYC elitism

Everybody ain’t gonna like what y’all like and that’s okay

 

[Plankton]

People have different tastes. Imagine saying not liking certain artists means you’re not a hip hop head. Yall be on your own dikks so much man

Here y’all go again with the NYC elitism

Everybody ain’t gonna like what y’all like and that’s okay

You can have different tastes. But NYC is the Mecca. It was the dominant nucleus in the 80's and 90's. Ignoring what NYC was doing is like ignoring what the 90's Chicago Bulls were doing. You got your chest out following Chris Webbers career while with Golden State and The Bullets while totally dismissing Jordans career in the 90's. That's how y'all sound.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Or maybe in this big ass country, every region had its own scene where they didn't worship the ground some c00n ass NY nikkas walk on

 

[K.O.N.Y]

You can have different tastes. But NYC is the Mecca. It was the dominant nucleus in the 80's and 90's. Ignoring what NYC was doing is like ignoring what the 90's Chicago Bulls were doing. You got your chest out following Chris Webbers career while with Golden State and The Bullets while totally dismissing Jordans career in the 90's. That's how y'all sound.

It’s corny because most of them are doing it out of spite, and not being honest about it

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Anyone who says that who was outside in 95-97 is in a retirement home

Have some grace. Old age gets to us all

 

[Overpss]

New Yorkers don't seem to understand that the ny sound itself is a regional sound.

Sure Nas and Biggie were multiplatinum artists, just like there were multiplatinum artists in the other regions, yet New Yorkers were calling that regional sound