12/27/2023 0 Comments Space age pimpin sample![]() While Puff & the Bad Boys were on TV with their shiny suits and everything you heard on the radio was disco beats, rappers in NY started releasing more and more independent records, with the help of Fat Beats distribution and the then fledgling Rawkus label. ![]() Shit, Heavy D and Pete Rock & CL Smooth even came from Mt. EPMD and De La Soul both came from Long Island (Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, too, but we won’t blow your cover P), Naughty by Nature and Redman hail from New Jersey, while DMX and The Lox live up in Yonkers. Is there rap from the New York suburbs? Absolutely, starting with the Wu Tang Clan, straight from the slums of Shaolin (AKA Staten Island). Now, is there rap from Manhattan, you ask? Well, take the train Uptown and you’ll end up in Harlem World, birthplace of the his royal jigginess Puffy, Ma$e (we miss you), Cam’ron, and the late great Big L. Although they kind of fell off, Black Moon, Smiff N Wessun and the Beatminerz helped shape what is now known as the underground East Coast sound with stellar LPs like Enta da Stage and Dah Shinin’. Also worthy of mention is BK’s Bootcamp Click. Word is his ever-expanding Roc-A-Fella label just signed Brooklyn’s grimiest gun-toting duo: M.O.P. Jay-Z made his debut in 1996 with the seminal Reasonable Doubt, followed every trend, and got better with every album, and now he’s a trillionaire who screws models and can’t stay out of court. Illest voice, wittiest punchlines, cleverest lyrics and two classics, Ready to Die and Life After Death-a legacy that can only be rivaled by his heir to the throne: playboy Jigga. Now if you don’t think Biggie’s the best rapper ever we’ve got a problem. Move a little South and you’ll end up in Brooklyn, home of the East Coast’s answer to Holy Makaveli: The Notorious B.I.G., R.I.P. That legacy of graphic storytelling undoubtedly started with Kool G Rap, and is perpetuated by Queensbridge Projects’ finest: Nas, Mobb Deep, Cormega and Tragedy, to name a few. Home of pioneers such as Run-DMC, Marley Marl’s Juice Crew, LL Cool J, and more recently A Tribe Called Quest, Organized Konfusion and The Beatnuts, Q-Borough is now widely associated with thug rap. KRS’ first hit, “The Bridge Is Over,” was a diss to the borough of Queens, somewhat of a second birthplace for New York rap. producers Show, Lord Finesse, Buckwild and Diamond D continue to provide backdrops for Bronx classics. A few years later, Joey Crack introduced the world to the legendary Big Pun. With KRS-One as its perennial rap mayor, this is the borough that brought us Fat Joe, who stepped in the scene in 1995 with limited skills and a whole lot of realness. New York is where it all started, South Bronx to be exact, and the BX still represents that true-school heritage. ![]() Cop an album like Nas’ 1994 classic Illmatic and you’ll get a real musical representation of the NY state of mind. Forget the fact that New Yorkers now like to get crunk and throw elbows like they were Tupac fans all along. To this day, East Coast MCs are measured against the meticulously constructed rhymes of legends like Rakim or Big Daddy Kane, while beatsmiths strive to attain DJ Premier-like perfection. leg of his headlining “The Purple Tour,” which included several sold-out dates, and plans to take his show to Europe during the summer months.There’s nothing like good old East Coast rap-gritty lyricism and sample-based music. In addition to releasing music, the founder and CEO of his own SossHouse imprint–home to artists like Chavo and Sharc–Pi’erre recently wrapped up the U.S. The project went on to garner massive praise by fans and various publications including Billboard, OFFICE Magazine, The FADER, ET, Complex, and more. He also has established himself as a successful rapper with lauded solo albums The Life of Pi’erre 4 and The Life of Pi’erre 5, which was critically acclaimed as one of the “Best Albums of 2021” by NPR, Complex, Rolling Stone, XXL, and more.Įarlier this year, he collaborated with Atlanta’s own TM88 on their collaborative mixtape titled Yo88!, wherein TM produced the beats while Pi’erre provided glorious “catchy and effortless bars,” as stated by Billboard. Pi’erre Bourne first made his mark as a producer-crafting massive singles for Playboi Carti (“Magnolia”), topping the charts with Lil Uzi Vert ( Eternal Atake), and becoming a GRAMMY Award winner (Kanye West’s Jesus Is King). ![]()
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