elipaintfat said:
Its not imitation of the South, it just shares some characteristics similar to those of the Crunk movement. Hyphy is something completely native to the streets of Oakland and the beatmakers of the Bay Area.
if hyphy is "native" to oakland and not a recent fad,why wasnt anybody getting hyphy in too short videos back in the day or in other bay videos or using the word hyphy? to me is sounds like when crunk blew up the bay was like this is our version of if and called it hyphy.