Large metro (4M+) with least established hip hop scenes? (live, best, better)
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y=Yea see I shouldn't have asked someone from Philly llmao. There's plenty of similarity between Boston and Philadelphia. You can hear the differences between NYC and Boston - but I wonder if someone from Missouri or Cali would.
TBH I don't listen to much modern NYC rap either because I find the young talent in Boston to be better-not gassing it, honest opinion. Like id take some of these artist over PopSmoke or A Boogie and I like those dudes.
Yea that goes back to what I'm saying these people are from different areas of the icty that are pretty different socioeconomically and physically and they're of various ethnic backgrounds, as a result, you get different vibes. I don't know Milwaukee at all but what I've seen online and heard seems like there not quite as much distinction. In Boston, each of the "neighborhoods" is large and more like a borough in that they come with different flavors. But it's also just a much more matured and established scene.
I would say 8zipp is much more NYC-like than the other two dudes though. Just my opinion but I'm assuming Q Philly is probably from Philly...otherwise that's a weird-ass name. Zipp makes Boston Drill though. Hm KT Cuatro, Shay Bands, Side Street Capo, are the main acts of Shooterz Muzik- a collective from the H-Block section of Roxbury.
New York's scene is a shell of it's former self; a snitch with multicolored hair is their (imo) biggest icon at the moment. That wouldn't have happened 10 years ago, let alone during the 90's.
Q-Philly's soundcloud location says 'Columbia Point', unkown wether or not he's a Boston native, but I have my doubts. He sounds like a native Philadelphian on that song--perhaps he moved as a youngster and claims Boston? https://soundcloud.com/q_philly
On top of the ethnic diversity, Boston is too far away to be heavily influenced by NYC to the extent of Milwaukee, and is far more renown. There also may be somewhat of an inferiority complex going on where they feel the need to sound like a Chicago or Detroit rapper because they know the general public has no clue what a Milwaukee sound is or Milwaukee in general aside from the Bucks.
I'll check out the videos and add my thought's on them all later.
Boston is easily a black culture center. It just doesn’t get a lot of publicity for it. Reminds me of Dallas in this regard.
were just chatting. not arguing at all. He just mentioned this topic earlier. I wouldn't even give Boston as much credit as you are. it's a cultural center in the way many American cities are, not particularly special- but not weak. In terms of hip hop for its size its underrated, but the scene is definitely there, and interesting.
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I hope you're not banking on this too hard. I wouldn't trust Nickelodeon or Disney with our young black talent. You gotta be an Olivia Rodrigo or Ariana Grande to get any serious push into the music industry by them.
were just chatting. not arguing at all. He just mentioned this topic earlier. I wouldn't even give Boston as much credit as you are. it's a cultural center in the way many American cities are, not particularly special- but not weak. In terms of hip hop for its size its underrated, but the scene is definitely there, and interesting.
Sparks gives me Philly vibes or maybe I'm just biased? IDK.... aside from the flow, the way he says certain words sounds identical to a Philly black accent. I liked pt.2 more than pt.1 one.
Dead dawgs was my favorite of the bunch, I think you posted him before and I liked one of his songs.
No offense, but I couldn't last more than 10 seconds with the BIA song, I know her from doing a joint with Nikki , had no idea she was from Boston. That type of twerk 'i'm a bad b----" rap ain't for me though, lol.
The link isn't working for me on my end. But 1981 seems about right, although I suspect it was around much earlier. Only reason I think this is because the producer for planet rock is from Boston. No way could someone produce such a seminal track without having an already established breakdancing/hip-hop scene.
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