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Then by your definition, does no city have a good rap scene because they don't make stuff that sounds like it's from the 80s or 90s? Get out of here with this stupid definition crap.
Rap/hip hop is the only genre of music where a few snobs declare that music they dislike is not in the genre in the face of glaring evidence to the contrary.
Actually much of the popular rap today is NOT Hiphop. When Hiphop was created there was the BOOM BAP. That's why we call them Bboys/Bgirls.
When the Deejays spun they looked for the heavy precussion "break" of the record and extended it on the ones and twos while a hypeman toasted (ie rap).
To sum it up if you're missing the BOOM BAP it's not Hiphop. Sure you can have a rap song, hell people have been rapping for decades, but that doesn't make it Hiphop.
Think of it this way, are there differences between blues, rock, jazz, country guitar? You see a genre shares the same musical elements, that's why Mary J is included and not Whitney Houston.
Please don't look up or ask what's BOOM BAP, if you do you proved the point.
The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music; no American city has as central a place in music history as New York City. It has long been a thriving home for jazz, rock and the blues, and is the birthplace of hip hop. The city's culture, a melting pot of nations from around the world, has produced vital folk music scenes such as Irish-American music and Jewish klezmer. Beginning with the rise of popular sheet music in the early 20th century, New York's Broadway musical theater and Tin Pan Alley's songcraft, New York has been a major part of the American music industry.[1]
Music author Richie Unterberger has described the New York music scene, and the city itself, as "(i)mmense, richly diverse, flashy, polyethnic, and engaged in a never-ending race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy".
New York has been a center for the American music industry since the earliest phonograph records in the early 20th century. Since then, a number of companies and organizations have set up headquarters in New York, from the Tin Pan Alley publishers and Broadway to modern independent rock and hip hop labels, non-profit organizations and others. Many music magazines are headquartered in New York, including Blender Magazine, Punk Magazine, Spin and Rolling Stone.
Musical Events, Organizations, Institutions, Venues, etc.
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Carnegie Hall
Radio City Music Hall
Metropolitan Opera
New York Philharmonic
New York City Ballet
Chamber Music Society
New York City Opera
Juilliard School
Lincoln Center Theater
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Avery Fisher Hall
Jazz Foundation of America
Apollo Theater
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
School of American Ballet
Alice Tully Hall
The Metropolitan Opera House:
David H. Koch Theater
Vivian Beaumont Theater
92nd Street Y
Manhattan School of Music
Boys Choir of Harlem
Mannes College of Music
New York Collegium
City Parks Foundation
Symphony Space
Biltmore Theatre
Bowery Ballroom
Hammerstein Ballroom
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
New York City Center
The Public Theater
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
The Town Hall
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
Central Park Summerstage
College Music Journal Network's annual Music Marathon
Texaco New York Jazz Festival
Panasonic Village Jazz Festival
JVC Jazz Festival
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
CityParks Concerts
Some other New York Artist include(BTW some artist may not have been born in NYC but are considered NY'ers by their strong ties and influences in NYC.)
Tv on the Radio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
MGMT
Suicide
The Strokes
John Lennon
Aaliyah
Christina Aguilera
Jeff Barry
Harry Belafonte
Pat Benatar
Big L
Maria Callas
Ron Dante
Diggin' in the Crates Crew
The Cuff Links
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Willy DeVille
Neil Diamond
P. Diddy
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
LCD Soundsystem
Eru
Morton Feldman
50 Cent
John Frusciante
Lady Gaga
Simon & Garfunkel
George Gershwin
Hildegarde
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
Ja Rule
Billy Joel
Lil' Kim
Norah Jones
Lenny Kaye
Bridget Kelly
Jerome Kern
Alicia Keys
Lenny Kravitz
Cyndi Lauper
Steve Lawrence
Lindsay Lohan
Jennifer Lopez
Frankie Lymon
Melissa Manchester
Barry Manilow
Yehudi Menuhin
Ethel Merman
Robert Merrill
Marcus Miller
Nicki Minaj
Tom Morello
Dagmar Nordstrom
Bud Powell
Tito Puente
Buddy Rich
Sonny Rollins
Mariah Carey
Claudio Sanchez
Artie Shaw
Beverly Sills
Carly Simon
Phoebe Snow
Fiona Apple
Stephen Sondheim
Leslie Uggams
Luther Vandross
Fats Waller
Leslie West
Vanessa L. Williams
Tony Yayo
If I missed any artist tell me.
Record Companies and Labels
Sony Music Entertainment
Warner Music Group
Universal Music Group
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im trying to find somewhere to move that's warm, but the most important thing to me is a good music scene. as im really into underground hip-hop i really want to find a place where this kind of music is present. any suggestions for places down south or on the west coast? I want to stay away from huge cities like LA though.
I agree, as far as Hip-Hop is concerned I listen to 95% Underground, my favorite underground scenes are NYC/Jersey/Philly's (as a matter of fact I'm listening to an underground rapper from West Philly as I type this), LA's, Florida's, etc.
I like a few mainstream Hip-Hop songs but the majority of them are garbage.
I like most Atlanta R&B artists (Ciara, The-Dream, etc.), IMO the ATL has the best R&B right now.
I'm looking for a place with a really good underground hip-hop scene to move to. Only I want it to be warm and not a massive city like LA or Chicago. Any suggestions on where this might be?
I've red 17 long pages in a thread about best music scenes, and out of 166 messages on them, I counted on 1 hand how many times I seen Nashville. First let me tell you my credibility on the music industry. I have a bachelor's degree in Music Production as well as a master's degree in Entertainment Business. I have 12 years of experience in the music industry. I've operated an artist management company where I discovered and built 2 known bands that fell off and another that's still around. I'm currently a song writer and a record producer. While Austin has the South by Southwest Music Conference, it's 1. Nashville has several of thes types of music conferences. While Los Angeles has discovered more bands and artists as a whole, Nashville has discovered more per capita than anywhere else in North America when you divide the number of artists by the city's population. No other city than Nashville has an economy that depends so heavily on the music industry. If the music industry died in Nashville TN, the city maybe would'nt die completely but it sure would be on its knees. Can you say that about New York City? Everywhere I go in Nashville I see the moniker Music City. It's plastered everywhere. Recording studios, music pulishing houses, record labels, artist management firms, booking agent firms, music magazines, and concert promotion firms are everywhere. There's even a credit union made just for people who work in the musc industry. The mass population believes Nashville's just country. While that has what built Nashville to what it is today maybe you're not including other artists from other music genres. It has the alternative rock band Paramore famous for its soundtrack on the movie Twilight. It has the pop rock band Kings Of Leon which had 2 Top 40 hits from 2009. It has hard rock singer Kid Rock while not making anything right now, he has several hits from the late 90s and early 00s. It has the pop dance singer Ke$ha which has 2 Top 40 hits from this year. It has the Christian rock singer Michael W. Smith. By the way, the Chrisian and Gospel music industries call Nashville their home. Whenever the rich and famous ryhthm and blues and rap artists from Atlanta have to do any official business with the music industry professionals do you think they travel all the way to New York City or Los Angeles? No. They travel just up the road to Nashville. I won't even include the countless bands and artists that started out as country but crossovered into mainstream. Just for kicks, Lady Antebellum's the latest amongst them. Now if I did include just strictly country bands and artist, I'd fill an entirely new paragraph. When we just talk in dollars and cents, Nashville brings in close to 7 Billion dollars into the local economy by way of music. More than anywhere else in the world save for New York City or Los Angeles which are several more times the size of Nashville in population anyway. Maybe Nashville should start being in your top 5 cities from now on when mentioning music scenes.
Smh@anyone putting atl on par with nyc and especially detroit of old.....SMH!!! That city and dallas are putting out some of the worse garbage ever in the history of american music (as far as hip hop is concerned) outside of outkast luda jeezy and ti the whole scene there is shot...I don't care whose offended but it is a complete disgrace wht they are producing.....so with that being said, I think new york still has the best scene right about now
Some other New York Artist include(BTW some artist may not have been born in NYC but are considered NY'ers by their strong ties and influences in NYC.)
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is from Minnesota.
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If I missed any artist tell me.
Record Companies and Labels
Sony Music Entertainment
Warner Music Group
Universal Music Group
I'm surprised Philly's getting so little love. We are DEEEEP in the music game. These are just the more contemporary artists, exluding rappers (whom I don't consider real musicians) such as Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Cassidy, etc.
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