I always see these "The Bay Will Never Blow Up" posts and never get a chance to respond... so here's what I think (like you care)
Hip Hop is hip hop... If it's tight, it's tight no matter where you are from. Shit, if San Quinn was a nobody and he went to a label and played them some shit and freestyled for them, the people at the record label aint gonna ask him where he's from and then kick him out of the building when he says "San Francisco" or "The Bay Area". If you got marketable talent and at least one HIT SONG, that prevails over EVERYTHING. The funny thing is - EVERYBODY ... one more time ... EVERYBODY is a hit away from gettin on. That's a fact. What's the "My Neck My Back" bitch name? Well whatever her name is.. Who the fuck is she? Somebody wit a song that a lot of mufuckas liked. She was probably on an indie label, got the song to a radio station and it blew the fuck up. People in the Bay Area need to quit blaming where they are from on why they're not going anywhere wit their music. Because nowadays, it's a WIDE OPEN market. There's no particular type of style that's in right now. You just need a hit record. Which when you think about it, that's the one thing that aint never changed. Cats just thinkin too small. Hate to break it to yall *grabs a tissue for everyone* but the independant shit out here is D E A D, D E C E A S E D, C O L D, because you got too many mufuckas rappin wit no skills, you got lazy distributors, you got stores that are tired of lazy distributors and rappin cats wit no skills that bring shit to the stores that don't sell which in turn makes the buyers reluctant to taking as many units as they once did which in turn effects YOUR project .... cats need to change their way of thinking if they wanna make some REAL money off of this shit. That's just my opinion tho
Hip Hop is hip hop... If it's tight, it's tight no matter where you are from. Shit, if San Quinn was a nobody and he went to a label and played them some shit and freestyled for them, the people at the record label aint gonna ask him where he's from and then kick him out of the building when he says "San Francisco" or "The Bay Area". If you got marketable talent and at least one HIT SONG, that prevails over EVERYTHING. The funny thing is - EVERYBODY ... one more time ... EVERYBODY is a hit away from gettin on. That's a fact. What's the "My Neck My Back" bitch name? Well whatever her name is.. Who the fuck is she? Somebody wit a song that a lot of mufuckas liked. She was probably on an indie label, got the song to a radio station and it blew the fuck up. People in the Bay Area need to quit blaming where they are from on why they're not going anywhere wit their music. Because nowadays, it's a WIDE OPEN market. There's no particular type of style that's in right now. You just need a hit record. Which when you think about it, that's the one thing that aint never changed. Cats just thinkin too small. Hate to break it to yall *grabs a tissue for everyone* but the independant shit out here is D E A D, D E C E A S E D, C O L D, because you got too many mufuckas rappin wit no skills, you got lazy distributors, you got stores that are tired of lazy distributors and rappin cats wit no skills that bring shit to the stores that don't sell which in turn makes the buyers reluctant to taking as many units as they once did which in turn effects YOUR project .... cats need to change their way of thinking if they wanna make some REAL money off of this shit. That's just my opinion tho