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Rapping existed before hip hop though.. rap is in older RnB, spoken word, and general conversation from the late 1960s. It became an essential element of hip hop (you can argue there are 5 pillars btw)
Rapping existed before hip hop though.. rap is in older RnB, spoken word, and general conversation from the late 1960s. It became an essential element of hip hop (you can argue there are 5 pillars btw)
That's debatable when it's adding the mixes/samples/syntax to the beat that modern style rooted in. Spoken word/Poetry/Griot isn't always accompanied with music like rap ( excluding freestyles/battles).
New Yorkers do travel a lot, probably more than average American actually, but outside the states I already mentioned before, a lot of the travel is international, not domestic (except transplants visiting their hometowns). I guarantee, if you poll residents of NYC, a lot more people visited Cancun or Toronto or Bahamas or Padua than St. Louis or whatever. A lot more NYers have visited Guangzhou than Kansas city. Most of these middle American cities are not exactly attractive enough to travel to for people without a car, nor most people have any idea where these cities are located. (I am talking about regular people here, not C-D nerds). In casual conversation, everything past NJ is referred to as "Ohio". Don't ask me why, I have no idea where it came from.
Wrong. Again, you have a very different definition of a New Yorker. Not the transplants from Dumbo or West Village. The blue collar family on Staten Island. The 26 y/o kid from Flushing working three jobs to pay increasing rents because too many people glamourize Manhattan so now they go out further and further, the 48 year old with three kids in Morissania who takes the 4 to work.
Again my conversations with New Yorkers don’t pertain to the relative small portion of people below 14th and in Dumbo.
This is an extremely ignorant comment and so soooo untrue. This is like what the 23 y/o dirtbag from Brooklyn who has left the city twice (once to jersey and another to visit his aunt out in Long Island) in his whole life. In 1990.
While alot of New Yorkers are ignorant of places around them and can make that European stereotype of Americans not travelling come to life, New Yorkers are no outlier in this. New Yorkers travel/are wealthier than you think.
Tbh my NY friends travel almost as much as my Boston/Florida/Jersey friends.
I mean yes and no.
NYC sits in its own kind of void in the US with LA being the only city that comes even remotely close to that same “bubble”.
Outside of sports (which are the only things that culturally connect the vast majority of major cities to the average citizens), why would your average New Yorker (I.e not someone living in Upper West Side or SoHo) compare it with another city half way across the country?
Yes, NYC has a lot of wealth and fluidity in its residence but a huge amount of them are transplants. A substantial amount if New Yorkers are content living in the NYC bubble as you literally need a decade or two before you started to “run out of things to do” as a resident.
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