Why NYC radio got Future in his feelings ? Vol. Flex shot's

pretty tony said:
One man can't kill the movement of a city with such a deep history with the culture.

That's a cop out excuse.

Like there's no way in hell future could diss everyone in Atlanta right now and they'd just suddenly fall off.
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FACTS

If Pac (and Death Row in their prime) couldn't kill NY hip-hop not sure what makes Ns think 50 could.

It's lack of effort/talent that killed hip-hop.
 
Flex has been a cornball for over a decade.

and I'm no future fan. Flex and all these old heads on the radio can complain all they want, but Nas, Uncle Murda, Jada, and the rest have done their best southern impressions for airplay.
 
I'm reading the 'Tupac Shakur' book that VIBE put out in 97 and stumbled across this old article.

Mind you, this is from an article in VIBE 21 years ago.

Spouting his multiplatinum "pay style" over a funkdafied backdrop, Todd Shaw spoke volumes for a West Coast rap community that, way back in the B.C. (before 'Chronic') age, grew sick and tired of trying to earn respect in the towering concrete jungle that was rap's birthplace. There's a new attitude out West. You can almost hear it in Too Short's simple dope-fiend bass line: Who really cares whether our records sell in New York? They sell everywhere else -Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Cleveland- all them places where Ns really buy records instead of snatchin' up a bootleg. Let them fools make Walkmen beats for the subway; my **** is booms for people who ain't got no train. Laugh all you want, but one day the West Coast is going to rule hip-hop.
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Los Angeles has its own copyrighted style: hard thump bass with balmy, cursive melodies on top to level sound. If New York makes beats for the heads, L.A. is strictly for that ***. That's the one reason West now outsells the East: The grooves are better suited to the wide-open spaces of the South and Midwest, as opposed to the claustrophobic beat collages emanating from - Queensbridge,
Bushwick, and Staten Island-to say nothing of Roxbury and West Philly. On a linguistic level, New York has always been it's own universe. Any person not from the tri-state is considered "country" an attitude that leaves the rest of the country feeling left out.
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New Yorkers will give you a million and one reasons why the East is artistically superior. They'll tell you the West leads on SoundScan charts only because, as New York Times theorized, "it's violence-filled lyrics and danceable melodies make is accessible to the casual listener" But the truth is much more complex.
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Cheo Hodari Coker.
 
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My city radio sucks , they literally Play the the same 5 or 6 songs every hour on rotation, with like half of them being this new age r&b **** ...only time I can listen is on Sunday's when they got th rap attack show or weekdays on my way home from work when th dj be mixing a lil bit playing anything he wants
 
Magic1978 said:
You prefer your men young looking?
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Clever... no. I'm sure a lousy guy like you is probably petrified of approaching women. I'm sure they don't make any advances at you anyway. Sober women don't eem pay you no mind :lol: :lol:
 
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numbah1grimey said:
Clever... no. I'm sure a lousy guy like you is probably petrified of approaching women. I'm sure they don't make any advances at you anyway. Sober women don't eem pay you no mind :lol: :lol:
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If gipp approached you would u give him the time of day ?
 
I bet it's cuz of how Flex said it. The past 5 years Flex has noticed the lack of (relatively new) NY artists getting that radio play to rep the region. He feels some type of way about it and reacts accordingly. Nothing wrong with that. Makes sense actually.

Future just need to stop being so sensitive.

It's strange though, last time I tried listening to Hot97 it was horrible as expected and it sounded like nothing but outta town music to me. Granted, I haven't bothered to listen to Flex's show which iirc starts around 7pm in ages.

Props is that's what he's doing.
 
flex looked dumb from 2 outta towners (meek pump fake, drake diss) now he tryna recoup local support to lick his wounds

cute
 
I agree with Flex... Mostly! I'm not a fan whatsoever of Future and most of what comes out of the South. That's a preference for myself though. I wish the larger markets had control over who they could play, but that's a dead issue. Someone mentioned the conglomerates taking over... Is Clear Channel still running the game? And when I say "... Mostly," I mean that New York should be able to play their local artists, but are those artists any good? The new cats vs the aging ones (Jay, 50, Fabo, etc), some of them aren't as good as the OG's. And I think that's why we have 40 year old rappers staying relevant because we need them. I was born in 1981 and I'll appreciate Fab on his worst days vs Future at his best. Future and the rest of these rappers are what's hot right now and it's what people want to hear. The radio stations have to cater to that crowd to draw in revenue.

While I agree wit FMF, I also agree with the stations needing to do what's best to keep the bills paid. NYC rappers gotta find a way to become as popular as Future to get that airplay.
 
Future run the whole rap game. Flex just wanna see his hometown win, that's all. It ain't gonna happen, though.
 
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