NY and Southern Hip Hop "inspired" by each other styles...

Disciplined InSight

Yeah we've seen it and heard it from Asap Rocky, Harlem, NYC bred artist inspired by the DJ Screw sound of Houston.

J. Cole, North Carolina and Jay Elect, New Orleans spitting flows like the offspring of great lyrical East Coast MC's (Nas, Jay, Big etc.)


...is it really inspiration or is it swagger jacking?

A1000MILES

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Jamaica

i don't consider it swagger jacking, it's just the music influencing their style. They take it and put their own twist on it, have no problem with that.

Disciplined InSight

A1000MILES wrote: »

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Some don't agree with the "inspiration" of NY artists using the Southern sound and vice versa..

Wild Self

Its the Hip Hop game merging together. There is no real regional sound anymore.

P. Town

I can respect ASAP's Southern influenced style because that's the way he came in the game. I don't respect it so much when dudes like French Montana who jumped in the game with nothing, but Harry Fraud and Dame Grease shit all of a sudden making trunk music

A1000MILES

Disciplined InSight wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Some don't agree with the "inspiration" of NY artists using the Southern sound and vice versa..

I just think it's wack when "hip hop heads" talk down on another region then turn around and cosign artists who use that region's sound simply because "that's the home team"...Far as the artists themselves, sometimes they doin it for profit, and that's usually obvious...Other times that's just genuinely the shit they like to make...

32DaysOfInfiniti

Its just music yall, more and more people are less afraid to be "themselves" these days, or atleast who they want to be.

That's all your seeing, its nothing miraculous.

Back in day, there was honor in being tough and providing for your family, not so much today...

Stomp Johnson

Just enjoy the music man. The more people there are thinking outside of self imposed boxes just for the sake of honoring some invisible/intangible state lines, the better off we'll all be.

BlackGerald

Jazz and r&b had regionalism as well that died away

Jamaica

ptowndonte wrote: »

I can respect ASAP's Southern influenced style because that's the way he came in the game. I don't respect it so much when dudes like French Montana who jumped in the game with nothing, but Harry Fraud and Dame Grease shit all of a sudden making trunk music

rappers can't evolve? so you're saying if you enter the game with a certain style then you MUST rap like that for the rest of your career?

by that logic Jay Z should still be rapping fast.

Jamaica

A1000MILES wrote: »

Disciplined InSight wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Some don't agree with the "inspiration" of NY artists using the Southern sound and vice versa..

I just think it's wack when "hip hop heads" talk down on another region then turn around and cosign artists who use that region's sound simply because "that's the home team"...Far as the artists themselves, sometimes they doin it for profit, and that's usually obvious...Other times that's just genuinely the shit they like to make...

it has nothing to do with a 'sound' if the music is dope it'll get cosigned. ASAP Rocky is an east coast rapper with a southern style but he is a dope rapper so his southern sound gets overlooked. where as french montana is wack so he gets called on it.

Oceanic

Who dictates what an artist's sound is supposed to be regardless of where they're from? Early hip hop was influenced by reggae, which was born outside of the U.S.

jayvon32

Lab Baby

The best artists today have influences outside of their region (J Cole, Drake, K Dot). I think it's just the new generation having access to different kinds of music, gaining influence from everywhere and refusing to put themselves in a box.

One of my favorite albums ever comes from The Others, a group from North Carolina that sounds nowhere "southern". Basically a VERY poor man's Little Brother... I kinda like them better tho.

zombie

It's mostly one artist inspiring another, this is a good and a bad thing it's good because it gives the artist something else to play with, it's bad because it can cause everyone to sound the same.

PK_TK_187

Southern artists just showcasing talent.
NY niggas dick riding to be relevant

P. Town

Now this nigga here...

Ounceman

Jamaica wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

Disciplined InSight wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Some don't agree with the "inspiration" of NY artists using the Southern sound and vice versa..

I just think it's wack when "hip hop heads" talk down on another region then turn around and cosign artists who use that region's sound simply because "that's the home team"...Far as the artists themselves, sometimes they doin it for profit, and that's usually obvious...Other times that's just genuinely the shit they like to make...

it has nothing to do with a 'sound' if the music is dope it'll get cosigned. ASAP Rocky is an east coast rapper with a southern style but he is a dope rapper so his southern sound gets overlooked. where as french montana is wack so he gets called on it.

Not really. in actuality its quite the opposite. his sound is what catches people's attention. no one has ever commended asap for his lyrical prowess. case in point, in the longliveasap album discussion thread most were praising the album not for any quotable lines or bars it had but rather for the spacey production and how its good riding music. asap is not that dope of a rapper. which was easy to tell on one of the songs on his own album "1 train". he clearly had one of the weakest verses when compared to more of the lyrical heavyweights on the same track. even though he isnt french montana bad ill agree with that. but it was the production that really carried his latest album and his last mixtape.

Jamaica

Ounceman wrote: »

Jamaica wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

Disciplined InSight wrote: »

A1000MILES wrote: »

It's mostly niggas makin the shit they feel like making...

Some don't agree with the "inspiration" of NY artists using the Southern sound and vice versa..

I just think it's wack when "hip hop heads" talk down on another region then turn around and cosign artists who use that region's sound simply because "that's the home team"...Far as the artists themselves, sometimes they doin it for profit, and that's usually obvious...Other times that's just genuinely the shit they like to make...

it has nothing to do with a 'sound' if the music is dope it'll get cosigned. ASAP Rocky is an east coast rapper with a southern style but he is a dope rapper so his southern sound gets overlooked. where as french montana is wack so he gets called on it.

Not really. in actuality its quite the opposite. his sound is what catches people's attention. no one has ever commended asap for his lyrical prowess. case in point, in the longliveasap album discussion thread most were praising the album not for any quotable lines or bars it had but rather for the spacey production and how its good riding music. asap is not that dope of a rapper. which was easy to tell on one of the songs on his own album "1 train". he clearly had one of the weakest verses when compared to more of the lyrical heavyweights on the same track. even though he isnt french montana bad ill agree with that. but it was the production that really carried his latest album and his last mixtape.

he's not a lyricist but you're underrating him as a rapper. dude can spit.

lamontbdc

yall still on this same shit. and ASAP is bout 2 steps above French Montana and Future on the mic I would call him below average at best

bigrizz

Originality is dead

DMTxCannabis

A$AP shits on French and Future.. they two of the worst rappers I heard in recent memory..