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Went through downtown New Haven down on Derby Ave and West Haven last weekend. I love how green and modern New Haven feels compared to MA and RI cities. Seems like it should be a more fertile place for hip hop. If New Haven isn't looking to Boston very much it might be worth it because NYC is too crowded a playing field, that is part of why many Boston artists have begun favoring the move out to LA. Tapping into a small hip hop market that has space for you might be better than trying to make a wave in NYC..
Went through downtown New Haven down on Derby Ave and West Haven last weekend. I love how green and modern New Haven feels compared to MA and RI cities. Seems like it should be a more fertile place for hip hop. If New Haven isn't looking to Boston very much it might be worth it because NYC is too crowded a playing field, that is part of why many Boston artists have begun favoring the move out to LA. Tapping into a small hip hop market that has space for you might be better than trying to make a wave in NYC..
This is not really true, although thelook is to NYC first-for sure -I was definitely in a 'New England Hip Hop' Clubhouse room with multiple people from New Haven 7/8 months ago. They were very much looking to make inroads in Boston's scene. You might need to be in New England longer to understand all those connections. Regardless, I'm not talking about where people are looking to-just where is the scene in CT?
Looking to NYC is just that looking to NYC... I'm wondering where is the organic scenes in CT and/or why is the quality/quantity lacking when so close to NYC. I lived in CT for four years in college and there was nothing despite Hartford having a reverence for the foundational elements of hip hop. In fact, Boston rappers were having concerts and stuff in Hartford when I was in college. They were posting flyers on our campus, we also had Joyner Lucas for a show. I found a stronger bboy/black skating culture and dancehall scene than active rappers.
Agree that NHV and Hartford feel quite different. New Haven is a much better city with more of a pulse. Connection in New Haven are certainly stronger with NYC Hartford is more standalone and a little more Mass influenced. What are the genres in New Haven? I would assume jass and RnB. Based on the presence of 94.3 WYBC.
I could theorize why CT is lacking in this arena but I think its basically the same way Jersey doesn't get a ton of shine, mission a major city. But obviously, Jersey connections to NYC are thicker and they're much more numerous than CT. I don't see the proximity to NYC benefitting CT musically, ever really- apart from Cassie.
10 years ago en route to Yale, we passed through some gritty looking neighborhoods - it was a culture shock because we went in thinking Connecticut is a sterilized lily-white state full of Fortune 1,000 companies. There was a rapper signed to a local Philadelphia record-label OBH, and the comments were clowning him, you would've though he was from Montana with how bad they were.
10 years ago en route to Yale, we passed through some gritty looking neighborhoods - it was a culture shock because we went in thinking Connecticut is a sterilized lily-white state full of Fortune 1,000 companies. There was a rapper signed to a local Philadelphia record-label OBH, and the comments were clowning him, you would've though he was from Montana with how bad they were.
Yea I know.. people do everywhere in New England very dirty. Ive had this conversation with people in CT because they feel my Boston pain. Providence, of course, draws the same reaction.
New Havens neighborhoods can be gritty but its much better than Waterbury, Bridgeport, or Hartford. New Haven has the Providence look to it- gritty but not blighted per see. Fairly ornate and definitely better built and more suburban than Boston hoods which are more vertical, dense, and unorganized. Difference is Boston hoods have gentrified and been rapidly improved and renovated/maintained since rent control ended in 1995. Most other New England cities show their scars a lot more. Only one really improved on their look in a substantial way is Boston followed by Lowell Worcester and Providence, then New Haven.
In theory, this shouldn't be a culture shock because if you're coming from Philadelphia. Its a lot better looking than there lol.
to me the gritty part of new haven are still preferable compared to Boston in terms of how they're built. Theyre more spaced out but also more vacant and less cared for.
Yea I know.. people do everywhere in New England very dirty. Ive had this conversation with people in CT because they feel my Boston pain. Providence, of course, draws the same reaction.
New Havens neighborhoods can be gritty but its much better than Waterbury, Bridgeport, or Hartford. New Haven has the Providence look to it- gritty but not blighted per see. Fairly ornate and definitely better built and more suburban than Boston hoods which are more vertical, dense, and unorganized. Difference is Boston hoods have gentrified and been rapidly improved and renovated/maintained since rent control ended in 1995. Most other New England cities show their scars a lot more. Only one really improved on their look in a substantial way is Boston followed by Lowell Worcester and Providence, then New Haven.
In theory, this shouldn't be a culture shock because if you're coming from Philadelphia. Its a lot better looking than there lol.
to me the gritty part of new haven are still preferable compared to Boston in terms of how they're built. Theyre more spaced out but also more vacant and less cared for.
The conditions weren’t a culture shock, they were pretty tame by east coast standards, it was that fact that they existed in the first place in Connecticut of all places, that was a culture shock, especially several miles from Yale.
This is a decade ago, before I traveled the country and had a very limited perception of the country.
I dont think the backlash was from people hating New England but form thinking Connecticut was soft. They would’ve received the same type of backlash if they would’ve said they were from Chestnuthill or Roxborough lol. There’s this thing in rap that You gotta be from the hood to be seriously. That’s what it all comes down to.
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I can't tell if Dallas Boi even takes himself seriously or is just a troll, because what he says makes no sense. He reminds me of that crazy guy who used to always hype up San Jose (I forgot his name).
You don't know anything about me.
Everything I say pisses people off because its the truth.....Nobody is looking for Houston artists anymore....Time is up.....LIZZO????!!!!!...Sauce Walka....lol!!!!?? lol
Everything I say pisses people off because its the truth.....Nobody is looking for Houston artists anymore....Time is up.....LIZZO????!!!!!...Sauce Walka....lol!!!!?? lol
Using this logic, This only speaks on how bad the Dallas scene is. If no one is looking for Houston artists yet it somehow remains that further ahead of Dallas, this speaks on how bad it is in Dallas in this regard.
Using this logic, This only speaks on how bad the Dallas scene is. If no one is looking for Houston artists yet it somehow remains that further ahead of Dallas, this speaks on how bad it is in Dallas in this regard.
Lol, agreed.
I think his issue is that when it comes to Dallas Vs Houston debates like this, he usually has a lot of Dallas defenders on his side...therefore they are able to beat up on Houston since there are FAR more Dallas homers than Houston homers in this forum. But when it comes to the hip-hop scene, Dallas is the one area that's so far behind Houston that even most DFW homers acknowledge that it's true...and dallasboi just can't STAND that H-Town is SOOOOO far ahead in that category. It really boils his blood, lol.
Instead of taking pride in hometown acts such as Badu, Durrough, Link, and Posty, he looks at Houston with PURE ENVY when it comes to this arena
never hear anything about Phoenix in pop-culture aside from sports. For a metro so large it flies under the radar .
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