Goat Remix Tourney (Rd1): Down Bottom vs Quiet Storm
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Was voting for Quiet Strom remix cuz I nominated it, but take off Juve for Young Wun....
Dwayne
Not Like Us
I grew up listening to 3-6, then put on wutang, then put on dogg pound, then put on bone, etc.
I'll never understand the regional wars.
Dwayne
Not Like Us
I like music that I like regardless of location. (Texas niggas for the most part are weak though, like 90%)
@ the bolded, I'll explain it to you.
I grew up in Massachusetts, which is about as Northeast as you can get. Hip Hop started in New York, the first rap records came out of New York and it wasn't until the late 80s that other regions got recognition via Yo! MTV Raps, Rap City, Arsenio Hall & The Source.
In Boston, we could identify with New York because the accents are similar and the landscape is similar. In other words, if you watch a video from a New York artist, the accents are similar and the way the dress is similar, and the background of the videos (the buildings, subway, etc.) is similar.
We used to laugh at the stuff that was coming out of The South and The West Coast because it was foreign to us. MC Hammer and NWA were the first West Coast artists to really penetrate Boston. 2 Live Crew were the first Southern artists to penetrate Boston. This was circa 1988-90.
In the early 90s, groups from The South and The West Coast would have full page ads in The Source but we never heard their music, we just saw the ads.
Now imagine how we felt when Death Row and later No Limit started taking over. The music was different, their accents wee different and the landscape of their videos were different. To add insult to injury the other 49 states liked West Coast and Southern rap more than the stuff that was coming out of the East Coast (36 Chambers, Illmatic, Midnight Marauders, Hard To Earn, The Sun Rises In The East, etc.).
I'm a 45 year old man and I'm still kinda salty that the style of music I grew up listening to isn't being made any more. I get the 808 sub bass, and I know that a lot of mid 90s East Coast Hip Hop was missing that 808 that people wanted to remove the spare tire and put in some huge subwoofers to cause an earthquake but when you're sitting home in your living room that kind of bass is a lil excessive imo.
To my ears, the trap sound all sounds the same. For example, a lot of these matchups in the tournaments tend to be a NYC song vs a Southern song. I'm not exaggerating when I say a lot of those Southern songs sound identical to my ears. I feel like you could play 10 Southern songs in a row and I wouldn't be able to differentiate between them. I wonder if Southern cats feel that way about New York Hip Hop?
You probably grew up when every region was being represented evenly.
When I was coming up there was no West Coast or Southern Hip Hop. Different regions didn't really start popping until I was like 16 or 17 years old. By then my taste had already been developed.
Having said that, I really liked NWA, Ice Cube and Master P's Ghetto D album.
When I was coming up there was no West Coast or Southern Hip Hop. Different regions didn't really start popping until I was like 16 or 17 years old. By then my taste had already been developed.
Having said that, I really liked NWA, Ice Cube and Master P's Ghetto D album.
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