Let's rekindle the 1990's hip hop war - West Coast vs East Coast

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Poll question: Let's rekindle the 1990's hip hop war - West Coast vs East Coast

[JohnKleeb]

1. Northwest coast

:P

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. East mutha f$!!in' coast mutha f%#!er!

[Susang]

3. Midwest coast!

Lake Michigan rules, you better recognize! :P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Actually there are some AWESOME Hip Hoppers from the midwest

Slug being the 1st to jump to mind

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. oh and some Chicago kid named Rasheed

[RandomKoolzip]

25. Chicago's Eternals are also worth checking out.

And Boston and Berkeley have some interesting guys working: Mr. Lif and Anticon, respectively.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. How you know about Lif and Anticon?

You researching Hip Hop behind my back?

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Maybe.

I'm going to be coy about this.

[ThorsHammer]

33. Isn't Kanye from Chicago too?

He's one of the few new rap/hip-hop guys that I like. I absolutely despise the Sean Combs, Ja Rule, Nelly, Ludicrus style that was dominating for a while. I wish Tupac and Biggie were still with us.

[BikeWriter]

4. Gulf Coast mamma jamma #%^& kill^%$#$ ass!

[sniffa]

5. B - I - G, G - I - E.... aka B - I - G

get it? biggie!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Big Poppa!

No doubt

[sniffa]

9. Lights get dimmer down biggie's haLLway

my forte causes caucasions to say,
"he sounds demented"
car weed scented
if i said it, i meant it
bite my tonge for no one
caLL me eviL
i'm unbeLievabLe

[sniffa]

10. btw: that a nice painting

[arwalden]

8. I Never Understood That...

... was there anything TO understand?

[sniffa]

11. 2 words

ka ching

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. it was all marketing and ended with 2 talented men dead

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Now let's see. RUN-DMC, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, BDP, Wu-Tang,

Jeru the Damaja, the Fugees, Digable Planets, De La Soul, a Tribe Called Quest, Company Flow, Aesop Rock, Smif-n-Wesson, EPMD, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Nas, Jay-Z, Biggie Smalls, Flipmode, Busta Rhymes, Junior Mafia, Craig Mack, Puffy, Canibal Ox, C Ray Walz, Missy Eliot, the Roots, Bahamadia, Jedi Mind Tricks, MF Doom, Grandmaster Flash, the Outsidaz.etc...

[arwalden]

17. I Think A Barry Manilow vs Josh Groban Feud Would Be Fun...

and exciting!

[DS1]

13. Chalk me in

not in the dead body outline sense as an Easterner that thinks East Coast non-OG rap sucks balls.

OG = Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, etc etc

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. You have no love for Mos Def?

Come now - NY Hip Hop has never been better than it is now

[msgadget]

19. Yeah, Mos Def is deep

but I'm a 'Pac fan. Guess that makes me bicoastal.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. not really - Pac, Cube, Dre and many others have proven that this all a

phallacy!

[msgadget]

22. Okay, I thought that was the point I was making,

that it was all bs and the coasts didn't and don't matter. (I'm old, my command of the hip hop universe is fragile :) )

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. You did - I just find alot of people who don't actually get this whole

concept.

In our VH1 cultural history its just some footnote. But in reality its just an extention of what Malcolm X and Miles Davis were talking about.

[DS1]

23. There's exceptions to everything in life

[donheld]

32. Mos Def is a hottie

[Allenberg]

18. You can't beat the East.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. true true

[dean_dem]

28. East coast!

Ya'll in da wrong hood, G! Make some noiz for da R-I-C!

RIP, Biggie.

[da_chimperor]

29. West SIIIIIIIDE!

All your damn east-coast people are skewing the poll . . . :(

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Hey - it is how it is

:)

[da_chimperor]

31. I'm afraid so, gotta page Dr. Greenthumb y'know

:smoke:

[Fleshdancer]

34. I think the Iowans are unfairly underrepresented in this poll.

:silly:

[bettyellen]

35. marketing... i thought biggie was a little pissed at his wife for this....

full disclosure:
biggie's funeral was in my old hood in the bronx. i once barfed in that funeral home's planters when i was 16 and very very drunk.