Everyone wants to be from Houston...

I don't understand the whole "He's copying our *#@$! That's ours!" Like people from one place can't be influenced by people from other places.
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If I was a rapper and I have to "stick to my area" the only rapper I would have to look to for inspiration is Coo Coo Cal.
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If everyone stuck to that logic, there would be absolutely no creativity in MUSIC, not just Rap/Hip-Hop.

Put it like this:

Person X is from Area A.
Person Z is from Area B.

X and Z were inspired by the same people from area A. It's just that Z is better at area A's style of making music than X is. Now X is jealous and saying "He's biting! Man *#*@ that !%+#+!" 
 
He talkin bout ya boy ASAP, Drake, Weeknd, Weezy, 2Chainz, etc..etc...

New York %%@+$% made skinny jeans trendy.

Texas got everybody !%@#$+ with they vocal pitch and sipping $@@$ out of double cups, rapping over jazzy slowed down beats with chopped up hooks, etc...etc..
 
Originally Posted by cartune

He talkin bout ya boy ASAP, Drake, Weeknd, Weezy, 2Chainz, etc..etc...

New York %%@+$% made skinny jeans trendy.

Texas got everybody !%@#$+ with they vocal pitch and sipping $@@$ out of double cups, rapping over jazzy slowed down beats with chopped up hooks, etc...etc..
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yup
 
Originally Posted by cartune

He talkin bout ya boy ASAP, Drake, Weeknd, Weezy, 2Chainz, etc..etc...

New York %%@+$% made skinny jeans trendy.

Texas got everybody !%@#$+ with they vocal pitch and sipping $@@$ out of double cups, rapping over jazzy slowed down beats with chopped up hooks, etc...etc..
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No one sips lean anymore. That's sooooooo 2007.
Yall started jazzy slowed down beats? Laughable 
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Chopped up hooks? Ok cool. And you act like every song on 106 & Park has a chopped up hook. It's a dope little style and if done right can make a song pop. And if we only let Houston rappers do it the trend would die out cause most aren't very good.

Like Curren$y was saying on Twitter a few weeks back what if the first person who dunked on a basketball court said @@@# that. NOBODY ELSE CAN DUNK! Imagine all the greatness we would miss  out on.

If I was a musican I would be hated too. From the west coast copying Cam's confidence, Outkast melodies, Kanye's orchestra influence, and Bloc Party's traditional London guitar strings. 

Silly close minded Southerners.
 
Originally Posted by Ballerific703

I don't know anyone that wants be from or even visit Houston
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U must be from either Cali or NY, cause wouldn't nobody else from any other state, especially if they've
been to Houston, would say some dumb ^@&# like that.

  
 
Originally Posted by ScottHallWithAPick

Originally Posted by cartune

He talkin bout ya boy ASAP, Drake, Weeknd, Weezy, 2Chainz, etc..etc...

New York %%@+$% made skinny jeans trendy.

Texas got everybody !%@#$+ with they vocal pitch and sipping $@@$ out of double cups, rapping over jazzy slowed down beats with chopped up hooks, etc...etc..
Click to expand...

No one sips lean anymore. That's sooooooo 2007.
Yall started jazzy slowed down beats? Laughable 
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Chopped up hooks? Ok cool. And you act like every song on 106 & Park has a chopped up hook. It's a dope little style and if done right can make a song pop. And if we only let Houston rappers do it the trend would die out cause most aren't very good.

Like Curren$y was saying on Twitter a few weeks back what if the first person who dunked on a basketball court said @@@# that. NOBODY ELSE CAN DUNK! Imagine all the greatness we would miss  out on.

If I was a musican I would be hated too. From the west coast copying Cam's confidence, Outkast melodies, Kanye's orchestra influence, and Bloc Party's traditional London guitar strings. 

Silly close minded Southerners.
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You had a great point until the "silly close minded Southerners" comment, cause that basically made u a silly close minded "northerner".

  
 
Originally Posted by Peep Game

Originally Posted by ScottHallWithAPick

Originally Posted by cartune

He talkin bout ya boy ASAP, Drake, Weeknd, Weezy, 2Chainz, etc..etc...

New York %%@+$% made skinny jeans trendy.

Texas got everybody !%@#$+ with they vocal pitch and sipping $@@$ out of double cups, rapping over jazzy slowed down beats with chopped up hooks, etc...etc..
Click to expand...

No one sips lean anymore. That's sooooooo 2007.
Yall started jazzy slowed down beats? Laughable 
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Chopped up hooks? Ok cool. And you act like every song on 106 & Park has a chopped up hook. It's a dope little style and if done right can make a song pop. And if we only let Houston rappers do it the trend would die out cause most aren't very good.

Like Curren$y was saying on Twitter a few weeks back what if the first person who dunked on a basketball court said @@@# that. NOBODY ELSE CAN DUNK! Imagine all the greatness we would miss  out on.

If I was a musican I would be hated too. From the west coast copying Cam's confidence, Outkast melodies, Kanye's orchestra influence, and Bloc Party's traditional London guitar strings. 

Silly close minded Southerners.
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You had a great point until the "silly close minded Southerners" comment, cause that basically made u a silly close minded "northerner".

  
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I think you have to be from the North to be a northerner. And It's true. Of course there is a few east coast heads who will hate South music no matter what. But the South is always the one saying someone took something from them and on that Rodney Dangerfield no one respects them *%%# (See K.R.I.T). Let the music speak for itself. The last 10 years the music in the south has spoken VERY loudly. This yappin makes you seem insecure. OP needs to work on his mixtape and his buzz and not worry about the next man. 
*waits for him to rap over Purple Swag with the hook "We Invented Purple"*
 
I meant outside of the South. Of course it's a staple out there but to act like the other 30 states are still outchea pourin' up is ninjahood-esque
 
Originally Posted by ScottHallWithAPick

I meant outside of the South. Of course it's a staple out there but to act like the other 30 states are still outchea pourin' up is ninjahood-esque
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okay okay...yeah THAT makes since. because from Florida to Texas...MANNN. 
 
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rap fans (read: black people) are always so quick to point fingers and accuse somebody of something. is it possible that people from other parts of the country were possibly influenced by your culture? isn't that one of the goals in representing your city/culture on a national scale? it's not like anyone named in this thread has full out stolen every aspect of Houston culture anyway. everything accused of biting Houston is actually hotter than anything coming out of Houston since Chad died.
 
if you actually sipped i highly doubt you'd just stop

i don't know any casual sippers, doesn't really work like that

it's hard to stop for most

and i knew some houston rappers would be mad at rocky mainly because none of them have a buzz that spans that wide mainly because all of them are falling into the same cliques and seem to be scared to make their own way

houstonians who just listen to music will love asap just as they love drake, wayne and etc

wayne may sound like a houston rapper to most houstonians but the reality is the whole swisha house movement pretty much started off rewording cash money songs, mainly of juve and waynes so new orleans and houston always had a strong connection
 
Originally Posted by ScottHallWithAPick

I meant outside of the South. Of course it's a staple out there but to act like the other 30 states are still outchea pourin' up is ninjahood-esque
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If your city/town doesn't have a local sound or culture, it's hard to understand why people get a little irritated when someone takes their local sound/culture...
...not too likely, but some folks in D.C. would be slightly irritated if Drake just up and dropped a go-go cut simply because for some people the mentality is, "Hey man, that's ours."

But Rocky has shown me this though: the prejudice the South got from the North in everything hip hop appears to be over (finally)...

...I'm realizing that these dudes are younger than me and grew up with "Still Tippin'/Sittin' Sideways" blaring out of their speakers during their formative years because Southern music was finally popular - they know whose number (281) 330-8004 was just like we do.

So yeah, the first time I heard "Purple Swag" it struck a nerve, but now I think of it as him paying homage to one of his influences rather than just bitin' the whole style...

...and the 713/281 is my second home - of course everyone wants to be from there 
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Originally Posted by All Ready


wayne may sound like a houston rapper to most houstonians but the reality is the whole swisha house movement pretty much started off rewording cash money songs, mainly of juve and waynes so new orleans and houston always had a strong connection
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A resounding no to the bolded part, but the italics part is 100% true.
 
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rap fans (read: black people) are always so quick to point fingers and accuse somebody of something. is it possible that people from other parts of the country were possibly influenced by your culture? isn't that one of the goals in representing your city/culture on a national scale? it's not like anyone named in this thread has full out stolen every aspect of Houston culture anyway. everything accused of biting Houston is actually hotter than anything coming out of Houston since Chad died.
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If by "hotter" u meant more popular, then yes. If you meant that as in it's straight up better...
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not at all man 
  
 
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