True or False: Did The South Ruin Hip Hop
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That's your opinion no matter how silly it is
Dwayne
Just a lowkey chill guy
Goes for your OPINION as well that you are trying to pass off as fact
Virginia is the South bruh...
T. Sanford
T. Sanford/Trill Doggy Dog (Legion Of Trill)
Anybody that think the south is soley 100% the blame for the demised of precious hip hop need to frog splash into a cactus
The fact is I think that region sucks with very few redeemable things coming from it
Mis4Mighty
Mightiest of Men
If you hate the south then catch these hands bitch
Timbaland & Pharrell are from the same city in Virginia . Timbaland says from the South in this song... Virginia is the South.
konceptjones
The one between three and three.
That happened because the sound of the south was the only thing labels were trying to push, so everyone pretty much had no choice but to sound like the south.
A rapper needs to remake this to 'radio killed the hip hop star'...
SeaSnake
OG
Timbaland too? Dont act like southern production isnt much much better.
SeaSnake
OG
Thats the thing the labels have to go with whats being made if other regions stayed with their own thing and it was naking money labels would have to run.with it
already home_17
Attitude Still on “Fuck It”
y’all still having this debate in 2018?
I've never said Timbo and Pharrell was wack, it was mostly everyone else making ears bleed
IceManKamReturns
Beam me up
Mannie Fresh is a J Dilla of his own, so I'd say no
It ain't over, I still can't believe how any of these niggas got popping but then I remember where they from
It ain't over, I still can't believe how any of these niggas got popping but then I remember where they from
@Chi-town B you are from Chicago? so How do you feel about Da Brat working and starting her career off with Atlanta & Down South producer/rapper Icon Jermaine Dupri because So So Def is Down South record label?
Jermaine a legend, Brat wouldn't have got to where she was without him but she stayed Chicago when she got on.
konceptjones
The one between three and three.
That's not true at all. The labels pushed the sound of the south. They paid indies to push radio stations to add those songs to their playlists in order to get spins. If your label didn't have the budget to spend a ton of money on an indie, you got no spins and without that you got no sales. Crank Dat and Laffy Taffy weren't flukes; they both got label backing to get them played nationwide.
The labels created the demand, then would balk at any rapper that didn't fit the mold they created a demand for. "Well... MC such-and-such is what's hot, and you don't sound like him so we're gonna pass on you as an artist" but the label is the reason that rapper's sound is hot in the first place.
Part of it stems from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, that deregulation radio station ownership. The independent radio stations that would have given any artist a shot no longer exist; they're all corporate owned stations run by Clear Channel, Radio One, etc. Payola, in the form of "indie" promoters is the other side of it, so you have a situation where in order to get played you have to have money for spins.
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