NY hip hop fans, and media outlets (the Source and hot 97 were the main ones) didn't like that NYC was no longer the driving force in hip hop culture or record sales, so the backlash started.
I cant agree with this. I remember NYC bowing down to The Chronic and Doggystyle. But NYC fukked with whatever was hot. Humpty Dance, Passing Me By, Jump Around And it was Hammer who's mainstream success gave Cali that extra push.
But we also fukked with Geto Boys and Kriss Kross.
U name any year and NYC and NJ was selling. 91 had Heavy D, Public Enemy, Tribe, Naughty...
92 Redman, Das Efx..But Kris Kross and Arrested Development was big in NYC that year too.
93..Onyx, Wu Tang....The same year u had Snoop selling multi, Salt N Pepa sold multi.
And if we really keeping it a buck..Beastie Boys was killing everybody in sales.
And thats just sales.....I'm not even mentioning music. Flava Unit.DITC, Native Tongues, Hit Squad/Def Squad, Wu Tang, Boot Camp Click, We had our own sound....
Latifah, Lyte and Salt N Peppa had a big year in 93
New Jersey was also getting shine around this time......With Redman, Naughty Lords Of The Underground,
When Ed and Dre was doing The Roll Call that first year they used Tha Shiznit instrumentals and the "It Aint No Fun" instrumental....Wasnt no one complaining. Hot 97 played whatever was hot from the west to the south. They played that fukking Woop There It Is all summer 93.
Then u had the DJ circuit with S&S, Ron G, Double R, DJ Juice, and Clue......
NYC embraced its own and whatever was hot outside of NYC in the early /mid 90's. The Source gave Cube 5 mics for christ sake,,,,,The Chronic got the same rating as Ready To Die and Cuban Linx.