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when nrh and i met we had a brief conversation about regional rap styles, i love this shit, rap music is all about turning your environment into sound, region and lived experience are both hella important

what is your favourite new york rapper BY BURROUGH??????

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Brooklyn: Jean Grae
Queens: Prodigy
Staten Island: Ghostface
Bronx: Big Pun
Manhattan: Big L

my only "peculiar" one is jean grae i guess

Brooklyn: Fabolous
Queens: Ja Rule
Staten Island: U-God
Bronx: Drag-On
Manhattan: Cam'ron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_3VYnbo9Q

queens - mobb deep (can't split the kids apart...but it's probably prodigy if i have to pick)
brooklyn - GZA
staten island - ghost face
harlem - cam'ron
bronx - kool keith

yonkers - dmx
long island - epmd (can't split the kids apart)

ny really stopped being center of rap about 20 years ago but i kinda feel like pop smoke would've been a real contender if he hadn't died so young.

love the cam'ron love

for me Yonkers is for sureeee Jadakiss. Busta for Long Island

rap talent is more diffuse now for sure, but imo most GREAT rap is still from nyc

this reminds me you told me to watch killa season

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 8:07 pm rap talent is more diffuse now for sure, but imo most GREAT rap is still from nyc

civic pride aside it's been atlanta for a long time.

What????? I don't think a single one of my top 100 rappers would be from Atlanta. 2 Chainz is the only one I even particularly like

lol like at least half of favorite working rappers/producers would probably be from atlanta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_aTebW ... hDkMSqD-N3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHgUgrMkf8

edit - i seem to be one of the only people who loves the black portland tape

could change but...

bronx - lord finesse
queens - kool g rap
manhattan - mcgruff
brooklyn - cormega
staten island - pass / my top wu associated act is myalansky xD