The problem with NY rap is that they're doing either one of two things:
1. Stuck in the 90's with boom bap.
Don't get me wrong theres nothing wrong with boom bap, but it's more or less a tired sound. You don't see west coast artists all trying to get on by having albums/mixtapes full of g-funk production. People forget that boom bap came partly from the environment, as well as the gear used. back in those days you were lucky to have more than 10 seconds of sample time, also you couldn't have more than a few actual tracks so you were limited. nowadays you can't expect someone to really be blown away by a simple drum beat, bass line, and maybe a little piano loop
and 2. Constantly trying to copy the South.
There's nothing wrong with getting inspiration from other places, but half of these New York rappers straigt up just jack the southern sound. What's worse is a good number of them aren't new rappers, they've been in the game since the 00's or 90's. Hip hop in general has turned into a "monkey see, monkey do" mentality when someone becomes successful. look at the trap beats, it went from wacka blowing up off of them and ross having a huge song a couple summers ago from them, to now everyones got trap beats on their albums, mixtapes, etc.
