Are You Regionally Biased?

[blackrain]

I grew up in the era when your rap had to be real

this era your rap has to be corky and out of pocket

Niggas that say this never mention how many fake rappers were around back in the day...like all them niggas was real

 

[5 Grand]

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[bck145]

I literally love everything, from all regions and genres. But i also think New Yorkers/East Coasters and old niggas tend to discredit other rappers from other regions when it comes to rappers from their own region because of what hip hop Traditionally is.

You hit the nail on the head.

I'm 43 and the only states I've ever lived in are Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. I have family in California and I've visited Cali several times and so I know what the West Coast is like. I've driven around the Bay Area with my cousins listening to Too $hort so I know how his music sounds while driving around Oakland.

@JonnyRoccIT made a good point. He said that NYC/East Coasters, "tend to discredit rappers from other regions...because of what Hip Hop traditionally is"

And he's 100% right. I remember talking to Grandmaster Caz a while back. Somehow the conversation switched to NWA. I told Caz NWA was hot in Massachusetts when I was in high school. He said, "We didn't like them". Basically it took Caz a long time before he could accept rap coming from other regions because he felt that his peers from his generation created Hip Hop and people from other regions were taking a bite out of Hip Hop, changing it around and making something that sounded foreign to the pioneers. And to make it worse, the rappers from other regions were making more money than the original old school rappers from The Bronx because the rappers from other regions all shared a common experience with Hip Hop.

All that is to say, if you grew up listening to a certain sound, then a style/sound from a different region takes a while to get used to.

Most of my collection is East Coast Hip Hop but I have some stuff from Ruthless, Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money. I have some stuff by Ludacris, Missy Elliot and Young Jeezy. I even have a few 2 Live Crew records. Basically my record collection is 90% East Coast Hip Hop with some regional stuff mixed in.

The main reason I prefer East Coast Hip Hop is because of the way New York rappers rap. They don't speak with a Southern drawl which is common amongst Southerners and people from Cali. I like the way New York rappers pronounce their words. And when 50 Cent (and Kanye) started to rap with Southern accents is around the time New York rap fell off.

Don't you live in PA now?

 

[caddo man]

I guess to answer the question. I dont prefer a region. I prefer a style. The older I get the more I prefer music with substance or some motivational factor. When I am working out though. I could care less. As long as the beat gets me going.

I am nostalgic with 90's and 00's southern rap. I m also like that to most 90's and 00's rap. So that is why I picked I dont know.

 

[bck145]

If you were born between 1983-2014 then you're a millennial

Yeah....we need a new word because millenial seems like a mind state for little fucks....ppl just label them wrong

 

[CapitalB]

i fuck wit all regions..

especially the south..

BUT ON HERE!!?!

WIT U NIGGAS!!?

FUCK THAT! im Coast bias! lmmfao

 

[Stew]

I guess to answer the question. I dont prefer a region. I prefer a style. The older I get the more I prefer music with substance or some motivational factor. When I am working out though. I could care less. As long as the beat gets me going.

I am nostalgic with 90's and 00's southern rap. I m also like that to most 90's and 00's rap. So that is why I picked I dont know.

So you're not regionally biased then. The style, substance, era factor is a completely diff subject.

 

[Stew]

i fuck wit all regions..

especially the south..

BUT ON HERE!!?!

WIT U NIGGAS!!?

FUCK THAT! im Coast bias! lmmfao

:joy: Im 100% sure you're not the only one who does this.

 

[trendsetta1030]

No… jus point out tha garbage disposal can

 

[a_list]

Unapologetically East Coast Bias

 

[5 Grand]

I literally love everything, from all regions and genres. But i also think New Yorkers/East Coasters and old niggas tend to discredit other rappers from other regions when it comes to rappers from their own region because of what hip hop Traditionally is.

You hit the nail on the head.

I'm 43 and the only states I've ever lived in are Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. I have family in California and I've visited Cali several times and so I know what the West Coast is like. I've driven around the Bay Area with my cousins listening to Too $hort so I know how his music sounds while driving around Oakland.

@JonnyRoccIT made a good point. He said that NYC/East Coasters, "tend to discredit rappers from other regions...because of what Hip Hop traditionally is"

And he's 100% right. I remember talking to Grandmaster Caz a while back. Somehow the conversation switched to NWA. I told Caz NWA was hot in Massachusetts when I was in high school. He said, "We didn't like them". Basically it took Caz a long time before he could accept rap coming from other regions because he felt that his peers from his generation created Hip Hop and people from other regions were taking a bite out of Hip Hop, changing it around and making something that sounded foreign to the pioneers. And to make it worse, the rappers from other regions were making more money than the original old school rappers from The Bronx because the rappers from other regions all shared a common experience with Hip Hop.

All that is to say, if you grew up listening to a certain sound, then a style/sound from a different region takes a while to get used to.

Most of my collection is East Coast Hip Hop but I have some stuff from Ruthless, Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money. I have some stuff by Ludacris, Missy Elliot and Young Jeezy. I even have a few 2 Live Crew records. Basically my record collection is 90% East Coast Hip Hop with some regional stuff mixed in.

The main reason I prefer East Coast Hip Hop is because of the way New York rappers rap. They don't speak with a Southern drawl which is common amongst Southerners and people from Cali. I like the way New York rappers pronounce their words. And when 50 Cent (and Kanye) started to rap with Southern accents is around the time New York rap fell off.

Don't you live in PA now?

I live in Hamilton, NJ right outside of Trenton.

I'm about 45 minutes from Philly

 

[bck145]

I literally love everything, from all regions and genres. But i also think New Yorkers/East Coasters and old niggas tend to discredit other rappers from other regions when it comes to rappers from their own region because of what hip hop Traditionally is.

You hit the nail on the head.

I'm 43 and the only states I've ever lived in are Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. I have family in California and I've visited Cali several times and so I know what the West Coast is like. I've driven around the Bay Area with my cousins listening to Too $hort so I know how his music sounds while driving around Oakland.

@JonnyRoccIT made a good point. He said that NYC/East Coasters, "tend to discredit rappers from other regions...because of what Hip Hop traditionally is"

And he's 100% right. I remember talking to Grandmaster Caz a while back. Somehow the conversation switched to NWA. I told Caz NWA was hot in Massachusetts when I was in high school. He said, "We didn't like them". Basically it took Caz a long time before he could accept rap coming from other regions because he felt that his peers from his generation created Hip Hop and people from other regions were taking a bite out of Hip Hop, changing it around and making something that sounded foreign to the pioneers. And to make it worse, the rappers from other regions were making more money than the original old school rappers from The Bronx because the rappers from other regions all shared a common experience with Hip Hop.

All that is to say, if you grew up listening to a certain sound, then a style/sound from a different region takes a while to get used to.

Most of my collection is East Coast Hip Hop but I have some stuff from Ruthless, Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money. I have some stuff by Ludacris, Missy Elliot and Young Jeezy. I even have a few 2 Live Crew records. Basically my record collection is 90% East Coast Hip Hop with some regional stuff mixed in.

The main reason I prefer East Coast Hip Hop is because of the way New York rappers rap. They don't speak with a Southern drawl which is common amongst Southerners and people from Cali. I like the way New York rappers pronounce their words. And when 50 Cent (and Kanye) started to rap with Southern accents is around the time New York rap fell off.

Don't you live in PA now?

I live in Hamilton, NJ right outside of Trenton.

I'm about 45 minutes from Philly

My bad...thought you said you were in Philly a few months back

 

[aneed123]

Everyone is to and extent. Ur gonna Like what u grew up on what represents ur culture ie the slang u use... if u grew up riding in cars with sub systems hitting the slab in the country u gonna like southern music vs headphone northern music and vice versa. Same if u from the west u gonna prefer that sound. Add in if u from new Orleans or Memphis u gonna understand they slang but a new Yorker gonna be like I don't understand what they talking about. Same with new Yorker's talking bout what up b and god and all that 90s 5 percenter talk. If u pull 3 rappers with simple lyrics from 3 different regions fans gonna gravitate towards the one from they area...ie nore Gucci and 2 short

 

[aneed123]

I'm from the South and I prefer lyrics and not dumbdowned

Are you saying us down south prefer dumb downed music? I don't quite understand how you being from the south has anything to do with what you like.

If we're going to act like the "MAJORITY" of dumbdowned music doesn't come from this area I don't know what to tell you.

Me being from here I seen it first-hand. I grew up in era where there wasn't many southern artist in hip hop BUT those that were spit lyrics not dummy rap. Ball & MJG, OutKast, Poison Clan, Geto Boyz, and a few other's. Then shift came to dummy rap more about the beat than the ryhme.

I like artist from all regions (except BTNH fuck them). Give all rappers a chance but to me it's about lyrics for me no matter where you're from

Now explain why northerners didn't fuck with those artist in the 80s and 90s? Why outkast got booed ? As great as they were it took til the mid 2000s for them to get legend recognition? U got folk who don't even know who poison clan is.... but if u from the south u do... u know why? Cuz of folk bein directly or indirectly region biased. I've heard ugk called wack on the ic.

 

[Stew]

@Cain

 

[5 Grand]

I literally love everything, from all regions and genres. But i also think New Yorkers/East Coasters and old niggas tend to discredit other rappers from other regions when it comes to rappers from their own region because of what hip hop Traditionally is.

You hit the nail on the head.

I'm 43 and the only states I've ever lived in are Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. I have family in California and I've visited Cali several times and so I know what the West Coast is like. I've driven around the Bay Area with my cousins listening to Too $hort so I know how his music sounds while driving around Oakland.

@JonnyRoccIT made a good point. He said that NYC/East Coasters, "tend to discredit rappers from other regions...because of what Hip Hop traditionally is"

And he's 100% right. I remember talking to Grandmaster Caz a while back. Somehow the conversation switched to NWA. I told Caz NWA was hot in Massachusetts when I was in high school. He said, "We didn't like them". Basically it took Caz a long time before he could accept rap coming from other regions because he felt that his peers from his generation created Hip Hop and people from other regions were taking a bite out of Hip Hop, changing it around and making something that sounded foreign to the pioneers. And to make it worse, the rappers from other regions were making more money than the original old school rappers from The Bronx because the rappers from other regions all shared a common experience with Hip Hop.

All that is to say, if you grew up listening to a certain sound, then a style/sound from a different region takes a while to get used to.

Most of my collection is East Coast Hip Hop but I have some stuff from Ruthless, Death Row, No Limit, Cash Money. I have some stuff by Ludacris, Missy Elliot and Young Jeezy. I even have a few 2 Live Crew records. Basically my record collection is 90% East Coast Hip Hop with some regional stuff mixed in.

The main reason I prefer East Coast Hip Hop is because of the way New York rappers rap. They don't speak with a Southern drawl which is common amongst Southerners and people from Cali. I like the way New York rappers pronounce their words. And when 50 Cent (and Kanye) started to rap with Southern accents is around the time New York rap fell off.

Don't you live in PA now?

I live in Hamilton, NJ right outside of Trenton.

I'm about 45 minutes from Philly

My bad...thought you said you were in Philly a few months back

I probably said that I listen to Philly radio stations. There's no such thing as Trenton radio stations or Trenton TV stations. We get the Philly news and the Philly radio stations.

 

[grYmes]

I give everything a chance no matter where. I'm open minded enough to hear people's stories from different regions to try to understand. However that don't mean I won't decipher & call out bullshit even if it's east coast rap.

 

[SheerExcellence]

Yes.

If shit is not from America i tend not to like it, although i do like a couple uk acts.

Yes.

If shit is not from America i tend not to like it, although i do like a couple uk acts.

I'm talkin about domestically bro :joy:

Damn. A nigga discriminating against regions in his question about region discrimination. I hoped you clicked yes bruh

 

[Peezy_Jenkins]

Love ball n g but super tight n riding dirty has no competition from them, pimp may have lacked lyrically but he made up in musicality which is more important to some Southerners

Ion think southern cats act like they losing it's that some are still getting slighted to this day, like u know how folks say "u pretty for a dark skin chick" to some women? Sometimes niggas be like yeah he nice for one of those southern rappers even when the cat has done enough to b considered nice period, maybe the ones who can't see that aren't as bias as those that still do it

 

[Cutler 26 INT's LOL!]

Naw I like too many artists from different regions