Many of you might not realize it, many of you are fully aware, and a lot of you are in complete denial.
New York has fallen off the rap/hip hop game.
Now before you NY cats start cocking your guns and throwing up your pink and purple Dip-set bandanas (seriously, pink and purple..all homo…) hear me out.
Lets reminisce a bit and go a couple of years back when ALL the hood AND club bangers were coming from NY. When “Give it to Me” was bumping outta every car, when “Wanksta”took over the underground and the mainstream radio waves, when the only song we had that told us what to do was the cha-cha slide.
Remember that?
That was NY holding it down.
50 cent and G-unit, Jay Z and the ROC, Mobb Deep, Nas, and every other mainstream rapper were doing their part. Even when the South started taking over, they still put out the gritty raw tracks and the club bangers.
But today, it seems like they just gave up, the airwaves are being dominated by trash.
There are eight rappers from the South in the Billboard Hip Hop charts (with the other 2 being Sean Paul and Diddy.) Sure you might hear a rapper like Busta Rhymes drop a track like “Touch It” , which repped all the boroughs in NY, (well, in the remix at least) but it seems like for every banger coming out of NY there are three generic tracks coming out of the South that take over.
I don’t know if NY has given up but it damn well seems like it.
But then again who can blame them?
With tracks talking about chicken noodle soup (oops, I forgot the soda on the side) coming out of NY and reaching an unexplainable level of popularity, I would’ve given up too.
Every few years, hip hop has an artist who has a tremendous impact on it and thus bringing his or her city/borough to the front line of the game. 50 cent, Eminem, Nas, Jay Z and others have done it over the last few years for the East Coast; Ludacris, T.I., and (as much as I hate to say) Lil’John, all have played major roles in the game.
So who’s going to do it this year?
Who’s going to save NY from falling off the map in 07?
It’s impossible to tell. With this uncertainty looming, NY needs a savior.
This is where Jay Z comes into play. Hip Hops Superman, he realizes NY is in desperate need, which is evident in the latest single from Kingdom Come by the same name.
However, there are many saying Jay is just coming back in the game to save his team (ROC), and many are saying his retirement was just a publicity stunt.
I say he’s stepping back in the ring to save NY.
to be continued
COMMENTS
Duh I knew he was going to come back. And with the song Show me what you got he should have stayed gone. And what is all this mess talkin down on lil Jon. No he is not a good rapper but he make hits for rappers all over. Jay Z is going to flop. That's real talk.
YEAH DATZ TRU BOUT LIL JON.BUTY HRERS DA THING HRER WHO IZ WHO CUZ JAY-Z SUCKS AND LIL JON.ITS REDICULOUS CUZ EMINEM RAPS BETTA DEN THEY DO.DONT GET ME WRONG THEY DO COME OUT W/ SUM GOOD SONGS XPESULY DA BEATS. BIT HERES THE THING CAN THEY RAP ANY FASTER.WATS LIL JONS BULLSHYT(YEAH.OOOKAY,WHAT,HUH)ALL THATS BULLSHYT.4-SHO.DATZ REAL.WAT I GOTTA LIE FO.SHYT NUTIN.I SPEAK MY MIND.YEAH DEY CAN SO CALLED CURB SUMBODY,BUT FEEL DIZ ONE THE TRUTH IZ WATZ KICKIN.NO MATTA WAT DEY SAY LIKE BIA-BIA YEAH IN ALL KINDS OF WAYS DEY A BI CUZ FAME AINT NOTIN BUT MONEY.MONEY AINT SHYT BUT MATIERAL.SO THEY A PUNK AND DEY SHYT AINT GLAZED.ALL I GOTTA SAY IZ MY FAMOUS PHRAZE AND WAT SOME OF DEZE RAPPERS AND SHYT SO JUS RECONIZE AND CODA-WOE STAND ^ N STAND OUT AND SEE DAT YALL NOTIN BUT BULLSHYT DA TRUTH IZ GON CUM OUT HOLLA.
I think that JAy needs to 6ring the East 6ak period...not NYC, Get State Property 6ak 2gether and thats Philly and NYC and 6ring the ROC 6ak and unite Kanye with them and hes 6ringin Lupe and get niggas mainstream like 6ump-j common, talib kwali and Mos def (6lack star) Chicago Stand Up (Shout out to Ca6rini Green and the Wild 100's) get cassidy and swizz 6eats in the picture shit aquash the 6eef and get DipSet in the revolution SHit EASt COast for life lets 6ring it 6ak!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yall tripping Lil Jon' is crunk that's a different type of musik when you in the south and they put on some gangsta ass lil jon' joint that shit goes crazy and they gotta shut the club down...true enough it's a lot of bullshit coming out of all sides but that's what corporate america wants....The south got lyrics nigga i.e (Rick Ross (Listen to Port of Miami), Lil' Wayne, Eight Ball & MJG, T.I, Ludacris, Scarface, OutKast, Trick Daddy, the list goes on)
JAY IS WACK. HE AINT LOOKING OUT FOR HIPHOP. IF HE WAS HE WOULD PUT OUT HOT SHIT AND IT SOUNDS BUTT TO ME