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Location: Washington D.C. by way of Texas. Maybe Chicago next year
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Originally Posted by grime9
chicago--home to gay rappers. Let some of the thugs from the west side do their thing. I know the true g's have to resent the kanye and lupe fiasco types.
You must be one of those Lil Wayne and Jeezy fans that talks about nothing but money, sex, drugs, woman, and likes to brag. Which probably makes you undert the age of 21. Right?
Location: Washington D.C. by way of Texas. Maybe Chicago next year
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Originally Posted by EEstudent
if you want a great example of how kids got off the streets and into studios, started promoting and are now huge names in the music history let me tell you about them boys from the H
Paul Wall
Chamillionare
Slim Thug
Mike Jones
Lil Flip
Trae
Bun B and UGK
SUC
Rap-A-Lot records
ScarFace
As already mentioned, UGK is not from Houston. You also named alot of garbage such as Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Mike Jones, and Lil Flip. You didn't name the best Houston really has to offer and once people really see what they have to offer, they will see how talented that city really is. Example, Kay of the Foundation. Look him up and go on from there.
As far as Chicago. It is a breath of fresh air. Too bad the kids do not want to hear it right now. They are stuck on Lil Wayne.
I'm from Chicago, and I will say the Chicago scene is weak, very weak. Especially after Kanye's "808's and Heartbreak". I'd love to play frisbee with that CD someday, what a peice of whiney garbage.
if you want a great example of how kids got off the streets and into studios, started promoting and are now huge names in the music history let me tell you about them boys from the H
Paul Wall
Chamillionare
Slim Thug
Mike Jones
Lil Flip
Trae
Bun B and UGK
SUC
Rap-A-Lot records
ScarFace
The south supports itself by putting rappers on each others mixtapes just look at what retarded DJ Khaled has been able to do (he is oh so annoying!)
The next city that is up and coming.. DALLAS they got the current high school kids dancen to all their new music
Chicago is for the older adults... and the fact that Kanye just came out with "LOVE LOCKDOWN" didnt proves he cant avoid what the south has created(tpain with that machine sound out of FLORIDA)
Chicago cant run the rap game... its just not the South.
And New York has legends (Jay Z, NAS, P Diddy..) and LA is just the West West (even though its fading as of late)
Much respect to the south for they current success. But T pain got the voice machine idea form Roger Troutman from ZAPP and Roger. They orignated that on the West Coast. Remember California Love by Pac?
There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Chicago
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Much respect to the south for they current success. But T pain got the voice machine idea form Roger Troutman from ZAPP and Roger. They orignated that on the West Coast. Remember California Love by Pac?
Also (not directed to Drover) a talk box (what Roger Troutman used) is not anything remotely close to what Cher used and the rappers of today use. They use pitch altering machines (modern digital vocoders.) A talk box is completely different.
From Chicago, I like Lupe Fiasco. Lupe is actually from the westside and also briefly lived in Harvey(suburb of Chicago), where he graduated from Thornton High School.
Also (not directed to Drover) a talk box (what Roger Troutman used) is not anything remotely close to what Cher used and the rappers of today use. They use pitch altering machines (modern digital vocoders.) A talk box is completely different.
True, whatever 2Pac used in "California Love" and Zapp & Roger used in "I Wanna Be Your Man" isn't an auto-tuner, it just "electronic"-izes the voice and hitting the correct pitch is still up to the vocalist. And they weren't the first to eletronic-ize vocals either. Probably the most famous is the crude but ingenious version done in "Do You Feel Like We Do" by Peter Frampton. But even the Beatles beat him to it by 10 years in their 1966 tune "Tomrorrow Never Knows" (second half of the song) which I believe is the first known recording to use intentional electronic vocal distortion, not to mention the obvious inspiration behind The Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be".
OK, I'm done ranting. I think.
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