Long Beach is LA?
Brooklyn is Bronx?
Pomona is South Central?
Dude, what are you are goin on about?
Drive 30 miles in any direction from Downtown LA and as far as most people are concerned your still in LA - sometimes LA city, definitely LA county. I grew up 24 miles south of Downtown in Pedro and we were LAPD, LAUSD and DWP. Santa Monica/Venice is LA, Compton is LA, Long Beach is LA as far as culture and sometimes even Law. The IE and Orange County get a pass too when speaking about LA, Quik now resides there but he's still LA. Alkaholiks were from Dena, FF13 was Leimert, Cypress was from offa the 10. We're all LA.
please to stop this ridiculousness.
My bad, my geography is off. I figured that dudes repped their specific areas and didnt claim the overall.
So were talkin LA county as a whole and not the City of Los Angeles proper. Or there is no proper?
Well there is not really an LA proper as far as cultural differences i think. There is a distinct LA city line but arbitrary shoestrings and political divisions were created for a variety of reasons back in the day - many times to isolate people through race based land provisions - which is how we ended up with the "ethnoburb". I'm largely simplifying it but Cube got bussed like 35 miles a way from his house to go to high school in the valley off of these weird provisions - the same reason i went to school with a ungodly amount of bused in gangsters from all parts of the city.
So that said, I think LA "rap" includes all of these parts of the valley, basin and IE. LA county, is huge:
Cool. I had this idea that there was a "distinct" LA like Manhattan in NYC.
Like u cant claim NY NY if your in Long Island or Brooklyn.
Looking at the list a bet she meant LA on the whole and not some super specific shit.
My bad.
I don't think anyone's confused about that. Anyone who is a fan of NY rap understands (at the very, very least) the difference between Queens and BK. And there's a ton of other geographic distinctions.
But to a non-NY cat, this is all "NY rap" generally. At least in contradistinction to W coast rap.
Historically LA cats may have claimed their specific hood (Compton, Long Beach, W LA), but are not above repping LA as a whole usually. And, come to think of it, neither are NY rappers. Folks who generally rep uptown or BK will still still find occasion to "claim" NY, Empire State, etc. when it suits them no?
I don't think anyone's confused about that. Anyone who is a fan of NY rap understands (at the very, very least) the difference between Queens and BK. And there's a ton of other geographic distinctions.
But to a non-NY cat, this is all "NY rap" generally. At least in contradistinction to W coast rap.
Historically LA cats may have claimed their specific hood (Compton, Long Beach, W LA), but are not above repping LA as a whole usually. And, come to think of it, neither are NY rappers. Folks who generally rep uptown or BK will still still find occasion to "claim" NY, Empire State, etc. when it suits them no?
Of course, but i interpreted the list as LA proper and me not knowing the sub divisions.
If someone asked about the top Manhattan albums i would list them.And they have the space to ask NY, NY.
If it was NYC i would list the 5 boroughs. If it was NY state i would include Long Island and Westchester, Buffalo, The 'Cuse, and Albany. New York Area could also envelop the Tri-State.
There's a medical insurance commercial that says they cover "These Los Angeles counties" and shows Orange, Riverside, Ventura, LA and San Bernardino County. I can't stand behind that.
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Compound means people will want to stay and be fed....no.
Get your party on and come sunrise, you all need to go home!
I will reevaluate the one Dj Quik
My bad, my geography is off. I figured that dudes repped their specific areas and didnt claim the overall.
So were talkin LA county as a whole and not the City of Los Angeles proper. Or there is no proper?
So that said, I think LA "rap" includes all of these parts of the valley, basin and IE. LA county, is huge:
Like u cant claim NY NY if your in Long Island or Brooklyn.
Looking at the list a bet she meant LA on the whole and not some super specific shit.
My bad.
But De La is NY to every person on the planet who doesn't live in NY.
Is this right? So many rappeurs I always thought of as NY just got crossed off the list :down:
Still waiting on the Catalina hip-hop scene to blow up
dude.
no.
"Rough and rugged, stronger than Bounty
New York is the city, Bronx is the county"
New Rochelle is not The Bronx or NYC, but is NY state, in Westchester County, NY.
De La Soul is from Amytiville, Long Island and has repped that since day one. The are not inner city mcs.
There are distinctive regional differences here in NYC.
But to a non-NY cat, this is all "NY rap" generally. At least in contradistinction to W coast rap.
Historically LA cats may have claimed their specific hood (Compton, Long Beach, W LA), but are not above repping LA as a whole usually. And, come to think of it, neither are NY rappers. Folks who generally rep uptown or BK will still still find occasion to "claim" NY, Empire State, etc. when it suits them no?
Of course, but i interpreted the list as LA proper and me not knowing the sub divisions.
If someone asked about the top Manhattan albums i would list them.And they have the space to ask NY, NY.
If it was NYC i would list the 5 boroughs. If it was NY state i would include Long Island and Westchester, Buffalo, The 'Cuse, and Albany. New York Area could also envelop the Tri-State.
I was just gonna say - whats up with that Catalina Isle heat?