Do you agree that the location you dwell is a sure mark for your identity in the hip hop game. To elaborate for the kids, if I reside in the atl with a single out, does that label me as a southern rapper even though my style is a east feel ? let me get some comments and I'll add later to what I'm getting at.
2007-10-25 14:11:58 · 9 answers · asked by scorpio9000 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rap and Hip-Hop
Elaborate on your philosophy of your comment, Louisa
2007-10-25 14:24:13 · update #1
The hip hop industry including the fans beforehand, labeled the style and feel of the music to where it was being put out, ex. Snoop, 2 pac, Dre-west coast/ Rakim, Big L-east coast/ TI, Soulja (bad ex.), Outkast-South. Now I refrain using the east, west, mid-south, and dirty south as a artist position in the game, just some real talk. Yo, Dj Premier resides in Texas now.
2007-10-25 14:43:55 · update #2
I see ya Russ,
2007-10-25 15:18:45 · update #3
That's a good question, and it's really a shame Rap Artist get stuck with this bulls**t territorial baggage,and why is that? You will never hear a Rock or Jazz artist doin this S**t! It shouldn't matter where you're from,or where you're at.Good music is the ONLY thing that matters,but alot of these artist and fans let the Industry and media confine them to this consumer/slave way of thinking. For example: New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz, Miles Davis was from St. Louis, lived in NY and Cali. does that mean he wasnt the Sh*t??,and why does it matter?
2007-10-25 15:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by RUSSELL ( I Used to Love H.E.R.) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DJ Premier was *BORN AND RAISED* in Texas... Houston to be exact... he didn't move to New York till he joined up with Guru
My homeboys aunt is actually DJ Premier's sister... We went to there house for the Mayweather/De La Hoya fight and they had some of the Gold Records in they house, buy I thought they was just replicas and that they were fans or somethin... they left for a minute and I was goin on and on about how I wanna be a music producer and my homeboy just cut me off and said "you DJ Premier is my aunts brother right?" *I DAMN NEAR LOST MY MIND!!!* when she came back I asked her and it was true. I had to let that out...
but to answer your question, its a little of both on where you from and at... you can rap with an east coast feel all you want, but you still a southern rapper, it just means your a southern rapper *WITH* an east coast feel...
2007-10-25 21:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes I think a lot of people do that. Make an album and "forget" where they came from. every southern rapper is not from ATL every up top rapper is not from queens but that is what they would have you believe. It really sucks that people rep where they are instead of where they are from. I reside in the city now but I am from the boondocks of SC and I would not ever forget where I am from I love being country! LOL
2007-10-25 21:18:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No way at all. To have a southern style if you live in the south is likely but I had lived in Atlanta for almost two years and I never wanted to change my style to them.
2007-10-25 21:16:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Man thats why I like being from the Chi...there is a good blend of everything that gives it an original feel...some try to label it...but its hard...we got rappers that sound like they are from the east...west...and south...
2007-10-25 22:23:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Woodcock Dilla 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its where u at (as far as rapping goes), like Tupac was labeled a West Coast rapper even tho he wasnt a west coast native, but thats where he was at
2007-10-25 21:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by ĤNIC {R.I.P. Sean Taylor} 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think the statement was meant to be more philosophical than literal. And even as a philosophical position, I think it's pretty weak.
2007-10-25 21:19:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scrappy beat me on the dice
But it's cool I'll be Back
2007-10-25 21:16:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
hmmm..i guess you have a point there, but it must suck if you're a southern rapper ^^
2007-10-25 21:16:01 · answer #9 · answered by Unbreakable Dude 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋