The Key To An East-Coast Comeback.

[sisforshaq]

The Key is Jay-Z's BP3 to be a huge success and for Jay to hype and sign other names to his rumoured Roc Nation label.. it starts at the top.

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F*** east coast, south chillin on 220mph cruise control.

[th4l3pr3ch4un]

F*** east coast, south chillin on 220mph cruise control.

the south is still big... mainly because of weezy. Other then that right now you have TI, jeezy... bun b... who else is really active that is CONSTANTLY killing ****.
Other then who i just named.


i also forgot outkast

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the south is still big... mainly because of weezy. Other then that right now you have TI, jeezy... bun b... who else is really active that is CONSTANTLY killing ****.
Other then who i just named.


i also forgot outkast

Those ppl are enough.haha. Turn your radio station on thats rap and wait 20min and tell me you don't hear one of them. I mean current music too.

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F*** east coast, south chillin on 220mph cruise control.

Isn't it funny that Rap sales as a whole have been going down for the first time in years once the South started to reign?

There are a bunch of people that aren't thinking about the interests of Hip Hop itself and the industry is going to pay for it.

There are already more rappers jumping right from hip Hop into fashion and other businesses because they realize that is a safer bet for their future than Hip Hop is.

[neils7147933]

Only Built for Cuban Linx 2 will be a nice start...

[black.ink]

East Coast get's more respect simply because they stick to a lyrical/flow formula. South is pure commercialism. I can't see anybody from the East blow up like Nas or Jay, but the South will fade quick and many of the emcee's will be forgotton.

Not unless the East Coast's finest get together and just blows the South out with a compilation album, showcasing what Hip Hop should be.

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East Coast get's more respect simply because they stick to a lyrical/flow formula. South is pure commercialism. I can't see anybody from the East blow up like Nas or Jay, but the South will fade quick and many of the emcee's will be forgotton.

Not unless the East Coast's finest get together and just blows the South out with a compilation album, showcasing what Hip Hop should be.

Well there is no question that many commercial Southern Emcees will rise quickly only to be forgotten, but that dosen't mean the South itself will fade quickly. What has come to define the South's reign is not a collection of artists that rule the game, but one fly by night act after the other in a neverending line. The South can keep going for as long as they are not replaced by something better. I wonder if The East Coast has the discipline and principles to even try to stage a comeback or has commercialism consumed them too much as well. The east Coast is loyal enough to pure Hip hop to complain, but I wonder if it is loyal enough to risk money, and careers in order to bring it back. Pure Hip Hop and 'safety" don't go together, but much of corporate America is just about "safety". As soon as someone is unsafe enough to actually be creative, and begin to get attention, the corps swoop in and try to mass market it, only destroying that creativity itself. Only label owners willing to take a risk can really bring it back, ones with a real love.

It's like I said in another post, racism ironically helped Hip hop in the 80's. Back then, alot of the mainstream wasn't willing to market Rap no matter how much money it made, because it was "primitive Black street music". As a result, Hip Hop thrived as a million dollar underground economy that could stay loyal to the streets, and remain grassroots. We are in new territory now and so all of this is partially understandable, but it may lead to the fall of Hip Hop. What those of us who say hip Hop is dead understand is that Hip hop is the vanishing "culture" of a community, not a single underground rapper in a cheap studio making tracks. Hip Hop is the next generation...or maybe I should say, hip Hop may not be the next generation.

Before anything dies, it's spirit leaves. The spirit of Hip hop will depart from it before the industry dries up, but once it does, the second event is inevitable. I have seen a whole genre of music go from being EVERYTHING to being relatively small time (Rock music ) so i'm not as expectant as some younger Hip hop fans that Hip Hop will just always be where it is now because they have never known a time when Hip Hop wasn't big. Ofcourse that kind of stuff always looks impossible untill it happens. Meanwhile, everyone will just grab for what they can get.

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