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View Poll Results: Massachusetts Vs New Jersey
MA 193 57.10%
NJ 145 42.90%
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Old 10-28-2022, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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Everywhere Im not I guess. That's assuming id watch the Red Sox. The only baseball I watch is when I actually go to an Orioles game.

I'm not being a contrarian I just feel like there are other "New York songs" kind of similar to this. I've def never heard this son though. It feels like it should be part of some Burlesque show. I never heard it on WODS back in the day so it doesn't register.
Maybe this is a generational difference, but if you look at some of the greatest producers in the history of rap music such as Pete Rock, Kanye West, Just Blaze, or even Jazzy Jeff, they all have a really deep knowledge of music that most of the younger producers do not. Guys used to dig through the crates looking for obscure songs to sample. Now guys just fire up their MacBooks.
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Old 10-28-2022, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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Maybe this is a generational difference, but if you look at some of the greatest producers in the history of rap music such as Pete Rock, Kanye West, Just Blaze, or even Jazzy Jeff, they all have a really deep knowledge of music that most of the younger producers do not. Guys used to dig through the crates looking for obscure songs to sample. Now guys just fire up their MacBooks.
Yes an no. Producer today are sampling people who are idk to them. Like Aaliyah, Tweet, Mase, blue Cantrell, Michael Jackson, Case and other from the 1990s. Often times those people s smash hits are older than the producers.

Add to this hip hop was popular my entire life. There was really less need and exposure to non hip hop music or at least non black music. Like in comparison to someone born in the 1970s. You can be more siloed. I’d love to hear people sample LTD or the New Jersey Connection or Buddy Miles but that’s like really really old now.
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Old 10-28-2022, 07:30 PM
 
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1. You live in California- where its more expensive and equally appealing.
2. MA does not have a high tax burden relative.
3. Nice things cost money.
4. I rent a 2 bedroom in Somerset County NJ for 2200. Thats not bad at all
1. Where do you get the impression that I live in California? I haven't lived in California in over a decade. And I left California for the same reason - taxes and CoL.
2. It has a high tax burden relative to what I consider acceptable.
3. Some nice things cost less money than other nice things.
4. You're in Somerset County.
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Old 10-28-2022, 07:31 PM
 
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Seems like a bit of a narrow mindset.
Not really.

If the economics are unacceptable, everything else is irrelevant. Therefore, if the economics are unacceptable, the location(s) in question are excluded from consideration.
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Old 10-28-2022, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Bergen County, New Jersey
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1. Where do you get the impression that I live in California? I haven't lived in California in over a decade. And I left California for the same reason - taxes and CoL.
2. It has a high tax burden relative to what I consider acceptable.
3. Some nice things cost less money than other nice things.
4. You're in Somerset County.
Your location is in CA according to your profile.

And Somerset County is very nice but its far out
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Old 10-30-2022, 05:11 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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Neil Diamond is a name I've heard and I'm assuming he makes music too.
"Sweet Caroline (BAH-BUH-BUH)...good times never seemed so good (SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!)..."

I've been in too many rooms full of drunk white kids singing along to this chorus to not know Neil Diamond's music.
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Old 10-30-2022, 05:21 AM
 
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they play New York, New York literally everywhere here.

The Red Sox even played it when they beat the Yankees in 2018, which was hilarious.

Then you have this 2021 mashup which is brilliant, which was played everywhere last year. It was like #1 on Tiktok and Reels for a good 3-4 weeks:
[soundcloud=400]159513770[/soundcloud]
The Red Sox play Sweet Caroline every game. Gag! And Dirty Water is kind of ironic as the other Fenway Park theme song. I remember Boston before the clean water act in the Combat Zone era. The song did a pretty good job portraying Boston 50 years ago.
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Old 10-30-2022, 08:49 AM
 
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I am not particularly fond of geographically small states, but I think Massachusetts is superior to New Jersey due to greater variation in culture, climate and topography.
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Old 10-30-2022, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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"Sweet Caroline (BAH-BUH-BUH)...good times never seemed so good (SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!)..."

I've been in too many rooms full of drunk white kids singing along to this chorus to not know Neil Diamond's music.
Oh yea I know sweet Caroline of course. Just didn’t know or think about who sang it.
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Old 10-30-2022, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Medfid
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Neil Diamond is from NY anyway. Not NJ or MA.
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