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That's probably just a city/area cultural thing. Like all the people in those place you listed probably talk head like it's normal..
From what I read from your posts you sound like you got that laid back but passive aggressive Cali (not in a bad way) type of vibe, no homo..
The Boston thing is like a smirk in your face while talking and say something disrespectful and it’s kind of like your supposed to retort back with something even more clever: if you lose your composure/cool it’d seen as “frail” not a flex. But if you can come back with something equally as witty and funny/disrespectful you’re “cool” you’re stamped. It probably comes from the itban Irish American culture of “busting his/my balls” kinda how we bond.
This is in comparison to the south where if you talk slick people take serious offense and want nothing to do with you and if you anger someone they get really hype really loud and it’s just not swaggy imo lol. This is different amongst good friends of course- abut still it’s not on that same level as Bostonians would be with their friends.
This ain’t everyone-but just from a lot of the street culture, particularly in Boston. Because in NYC and NJ they kind of **love** to roast people and ‘violate’ [in Boston the terms is ‘rash’) and make a show of it, like ‘gather round’ type ish.
In Boston you’re not in danger until someone starts looking pensive/staring at you and gets quite, starts mumbling under their breath. Then you’re about 3-5 seconds away from getting cussed out or jumped or worse for some people (I’m not about that life). I wouldn’t know Cali well enough to say what it is out there. But maybe, Boston and the Bay share some similarities idk about LA or what have you.
What separates Philly rap from the other NE cities IMO is the prevalence of Trap-N-B rappers similar to Baltimore and the South. I'd argue PNB Rock was one of the first mainstream artist of that genre.
Which is crazy to me, I only heard of him thru my gf for his relationship channel with his gf on YouTube lmao.
I saw he was nominated last night and she told me he made music I was like what!???
I quickly realized I’m not hip- the only new artist I heard of in that entire category was Latto
No you were right. I honestly have no idea why Tobe was nominated. He has not had a single major hit unlike most of the others that were nominated. He’s had some popular songs and some impressive music festival appearances but that’s that. My guess is that the labels are promoting him (Grammys are corrupt).
This is not the first time something happens in NYC and Boston around the same time and the default inclination is NYC did it first.
If I’m being 100% honest Young Cartels (Dorchester) “I sell Drugs” was more of a drill song than either of those and it came out in October 2013. There's a legitimate claim that Boston was one of the very earliest adapters of Drill. Doesn't matter to anyone but Boston rap heads, but its true
Millyz is probably one of my favorite rappers today and I like that he is heavily influenced by Jadakiss and Dave East.
New Yorkers should understand, its a little more complex. Theres a push and pull relationship with NYC.
To us it’s just rappin it was as Boston as it gets. Hip Zepi didn’t even sell uptown’s or Nike at all“cause Uptown’s in Beantown just aint legit” so that’s pretty different than NY. We were a strictly Top Tens city with other Adidas’ like Gazelles being popular. There’s still an annual Adidas Party in Boston for OGs.
Adidas was part of our whole “threes” culture. 3 up top/ 3 stripes for the bean. If you hold up three fingers and turn it sideways it makes a lowercase “b” and each of the three-finger stood for a black neighborhood: Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.
Roxbury rap bishop Edo G says that although Adidas had a presence in the late ’70’s, the fever spread around 1986, when, on the strength of “My Adidas” and “Walk This Way,” Run DMC’s Raising Hell became the first rap album to go platinum.
In the early-1980s, a cultural phenomenon was beginning to take shape in the city of Boston. United through an inexplicable and exclusive allegiance to the adidas brand, much of the city’s youth would rally around a German sneaker manufacturer, and in doing so, form a new sense of local pride and loyalty where fidelity was shown through fashion.
To gain some insight into the city’s complex relationship with the adidas, Bodega called upon three veterans of the Boston hip-hop scene for first hand accounts from the formative years of the intriguing and enduring adidas/Boston relationship.
“I do have a strong connection with the brand, but when it comes down to what legitimized it for us and what made it become a Boston staple thing, I don’t really know,” said graffiti artist Rob Gibbs (aka Problak). “That connection was always pretty mysterious. I will say, RUN DMC’s ‘My Adidas’ was a huge part of it. It just put the crown on making sure that you had a pair. Now you had an anthem to get behind.”
“Sure, Boston was adidas town, but there was also a very big anti-Nike vibe too,” remembers graffiti artist Jason Talbot (aka SWAT). “I feel like it was akin to the Boston versus NYC vibe. There has always been a rivalry there as well. As much as Bostonians had a real animosity to New York, we also kind of wish we were New York, you know. It’s a David vs Goliath thing. We were always trying to prove ourselves and the adidas versus Nike thing became another part of that competitive nature.”
Boston has Adidas trees too. One of which still stands., and I will share it shortly.
“Run DMC might have been from New York, but everybody in New York wore Nikes, so Adidas just became part of Boston’s identity,” Edo says.
When I was first taking the train and what not spending birthday money by myself...If you wanted Nikes you had to go to a chain like Foot Action/Foot Locker, a sports store, or Eblens (based out of New Britain, CT). They were very very scarce at Alpha and Omega (RIP) and Expressions.
Culturally and tonaly city Boston is as close as you will get to inner city NYC other than Jersey or maybe Bridgeport. But at least for me as a young teen and pre social media my scope didn’t really go out to NYC.
A lot of Boston folks were influenced by Max B (who recorded in Boston) and Dipset and Harlem Culture in particular so its weird to me the Queens/Adidas Connection.
I heard about him from one of my favorite YouTubers (Ruslan KD) Toby was labeled a Christian rapper before he dismissed it.
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