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Who can honestly say they'd take Ready to Die over All Eyez On Me? Or Doggystyle over Cuban Linx? I bang all of them with equal regularity on my iPod. It's a straight draw. I won't take a side!
The thing is, good artists from New York aren't getting any play these days either. Nobody is playing Papoose or Immortal Technique. Damn near any great NY artist that has gotten a lot of play has come from the 90s or before.
thats not true. jay gets play. cam and vado get play (i know because i've heard them on the radio in the south). nicki minaj gets play.
you might not consider them good artists...thats subjective tho. regardless, the above names are holding ny down on radio outside of the tristate.
IMO it shouldn't be a tie. the east clearly has had the better hip hop over the years. if we're going to talk about the time frame where the east west stuff was going on, we still had the better hip hop.
the whole wu tang movement, the bad boy era, the rocafella era as well as us on neptunes beats, us on tim beats, etc. we just won, period, no matter the decade (up until 2004).
IMO it shouldn't be a tie. the east clearly has had the better hip hop over the years. if we're going to talk about the time frame where the east west stuff was going on, we still had the better hip hop.
the whole wu tang movement, the bad boy era, the rocafella era as well as us on neptunes beats, us on tim beats, etc. we just won, period, no matter the decade (up until 2004).
It's subjective. I'd understand if both areas had the same sound, but they are different and one may prefer one over the other.
its not really subjective to be honest. name all the west coast artists that you think/thought put out good music from 1979-2004 and then we can name all of the east coast artists from the same time. you would clearly run out of artists, hits, songs that got spins nationwide, etc.
the east clearly wins this easily. its just fact. even if YOU personally didn't feel the east coast, by sheer airplay spins/requests, sales, hits on the charts, impact on music, urban fashion, etc. in general, the east is the clear winner.
anybody that has been alive since before the 90's can tell you.
the whole wu tang movement, the bad boy era, the rocafella era as well as us on neptunes beats, us on tim beats, etc. we just won, period, no matter the decade (up until 2004).
But like I was saying before, a lot of that music has lost it's original value because it has become somewhat of a minstrel show for suburban White folks. I was at the Rock the Bells concert in Maryland yesterday. I saw about 10,000+ suburban looking White people age 25-50 wearing Wu-Tang shirts. It's entertaining to watch a crowd full of uncool White people scream the lyrics to "C.R.E.A.M."; a song about sticking up White boys in ball courts, selling crack going to jail at the age of 15 and "kicking the truth to the young Black youth". Absolutely laughable.
I'm just glad I grew up in an environment where our music never was exposed to those types of squares. No packed arena full of dorks will ever be screaming anthems from my hood. Lakeview, San Francisco is in this batch:
IMO it shouldn't be a tie. the east clearly has had the better hip hop over the years. if we're going to talk about the time frame where the east west stuff was going on, we still had the better hip hop.
the whole wu tang movement, the bad boy era, the rocafella era as well as us on neptunes beats, us on tim beats, etc. we just won, period, no matter the decade (up until 2004).
The East didn't have better hip hop during the relevant time period. When we say East Coast/West Coast, we're really talking Bad Boy/Death Row. Doggystyle and the Chronic were BOMBS. Illmatic, OBCL, 36 Chambers, Life After Death were all good albums, but Doggystyle and the Chronic just changed the game. We were all getting tired of the same East Coast sound, and the Chronic just came through and set fire to our eardrums. The sound was so different; we had never heard anything like it at the time. Then you add Pac to the mix...Makaveli, Gang Related Soundtrack, All Eyez On Me, man, that's a lethal combination. Snoop had Philly on lock the summer of '94. Every kid was walking down Germantown Avenue singing the chorus to Gin And Juice.
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