harry knucklez
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RickyRich;d-556194 said:
He ain't lying. When Da Brat first came out, I really thought she was signed to DeathRow
Suge Knight Details Assistance On The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready To Die"
He ain't lying. When Da Brat first came out, I really thought she was signed to DeathRow
I been saying this shit for years..
niggas come to the west..
smoke our weed.. soak in our sun rays..
get turned down by our bad bitches..
and then go back to wherever the fuck they from new niggas..
BUT THEN try to shit on the west?!? smmfh
rims.. top down.. popping bottles.. thats all westcoast...
niggas come to the west..
smoke our weed.. soak in our sun rays..
get turned down by our bad bitches..
and then go back to wherever the fuck they from new niggas..
BUT THEN try to shit on the west?!? smmfh
rims.. top down.. popping bottles.. thats all westcoast...
BOSSExcellence;c-9680653 said:
Yea I think everybody out he has been tryna tell everybody this.... Niggas in the west don't become bigger becuz everybody from other regions comes and takes our shit and runs with it but when we put it out there it gets classified as "too west coast sounding"..….. the masses like the west coast sound they just don't like it coming from west coast artist especially if it's our bay sound
New York ran the table from 1979-1992. You had people like NWA and 2 Live Crew but New York was the Mecca and thats indisputable.
From 1992-1993 I'll admit that the West Coast had a new, different, fresh sound while New York was struggling to come up with some new ideas. From 92-93 New York had Pete Rock and CL Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Naughty By Nature and Brand Nubian but they weren't selling like Dre, Snoop or Ice Cube...and later Coolio who went double platinum and won a grammy.
In November 1993 A Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang dropped albums on the same day (Midnight Marauders and Enter The Wu: 36 Chambers). Snoop dropped Doggystyle two weeks later.
My circle of friends preferred Midnight Marauders and 36 Chambers, but Doggystyle sold 4X plat. In Boston, Award Tour, C.R.E.A.M. and Gin and Juice all got played on daytime radio.
The video shows like Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City showed a mix of East, West and South but later Gang Star, Jeru The Damaja, Nas and eventually Biggie dropped albums. The mixtape game picked up and my friends from New York were bringing back the hottest Doo Wop, S&S, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Ron G and whoever else was poppin on 125th st.
While I must admit that the West Coast sold more from 93-96, there was a mixtape culture in New York City that the rest of the country didn't know about.
Then Bad Boy sold 30 Million records in 1997.
At least thats how I remember it.
From 1992-1993 I'll admit that the West Coast had a new, different, fresh sound while New York was struggling to come up with some new ideas. From 92-93 New York had Pete Rock and CL Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Naughty By Nature and Brand Nubian but they weren't selling like Dre, Snoop or Ice Cube...and later Coolio who went double platinum and won a grammy.
In November 1993 A Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang dropped albums on the same day (Midnight Marauders and Enter The Wu: 36 Chambers). Snoop dropped Doggystyle two weeks later.
My circle of friends preferred Midnight Marauders and 36 Chambers, but Doggystyle sold 4X plat. In Boston, Award Tour, C.R.E.A.M. and Gin and Juice all got played on daytime radio.
The video shows like Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City showed a mix of East, West and South but later Gang Star, Jeru The Damaja, Nas and eventually Biggie dropped albums. The mixtape game picked up and my friends from New York were bringing back the hottest Doo Wop, S&S, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Ron G and whoever else was poppin on 125th st.
While I must admit that the West Coast sold more from 93-96, there was a mixtape culture in New York City that the rest of the country didn't know about.
Then Bad Boy sold 30 Million records in 1997.
At least thats how I remember it.
5 Grand;c-9680688 said:
we aint talking about all that tho..
we talking about niggas biting the west while simultaneously trying to shit on it..
NY had all the publications back then and after Pac shitted on y'all niggas and got popped the West pretty much got blacklisted..
the West aint never stop bein hard.. but it was always funny to me hearing niggas on the radio talking about our lifestyle but when our artist pop that shit we "too west coast" ...the fuck!?!?
Midwest_Journalist
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I have to agree with Suge. Biggie's One More Chance Remix, Big Poppa and hypnotized sound straight up West Coast.
And growing up in the Midwest, more people had love for West first, anything from the Midwest/South second and the East was third (just my personal observation from my peers and what I heard at parties).
Some of the posts on here are correct, a lot of East Coast people shitted on the West for no reason especially with the "Rap started in NY" stuff. Yeah, that's true, but Ford was the first to mass produce a car, but that didn't stop Chevy from doing their thing too.
When Kendrick dropped GKMC a lot of East Coast dudes were on boards saying it was soft and weird, but it was a Dope Classic!
And growing up in the Midwest, more people had love for West first, anything from the Midwest/South second and the East was third (just my personal observation from my peers and what I heard at parties).
Some of the posts on here are correct, a lot of East Coast people shitted on the West for no reason especially with the "Rap started in NY" stuff. Yeah, that's true, but Ford was the first to mass produce a car, but that didn't stop Chevy from doing their thing too.
When Kendrick dropped GKMC a lot of East Coast dudes were on boards saying it was soft and weird, but it was a Dope Classic!
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JonnyRoccIT
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RickyRich;c-9680751 said:
Eh...wouldn't say that, but everything is Definitely Southern and West Coast influenced in rap today
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