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“It’s like New York’s been soft since Snoop came through and crushed the buildings.”
Last week, Kendrick Lamar shook up the entire hip-hip community with his verses on Big Sean’s “Control.” A multitude of responses surfaced from Joe Budden, Lupe Fiasco, Joell Ortiz, and Papoose to name a few of the dozens, which they felt outraged by lyrics.
Over here, we enjoy the competitive nature, but the mecca and center of Hip-Hop shouldn’t need a Compton emcee to motivate them to hit the studio. During 1995 at the peak of the West Coast, the Dogg Pound released arguably their best album being the debut album “Dogg Food.”
Even seeing 2pac dancing to the records at club 662 in the past, we knew the DPGC’s Dat Nigga Daz and Kurupt Young Gotti were onto something with help from DJ Pooh. For the album’s first single, we witnessed the ode “New York, New York”; with Snoop Doggy Dogg rollin’ thru the streets of Manhattan with Cadillac Devilles stretched down the streets of forty deuce street and throughout Brooklyn.
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In our adolescent/teen years, we couldn’t even be mad at the Death Row team stepping into home turf and repping their shit at the time for the culture of hip-hop, but it would obviously be taken the wrong way. Like the mid 90’s, the West Coast has been in control of the rap genre for the last few years as a whole; but the East Coast would overcome adversity and take over for a few years before the South’s run.
Daz recently said history repeats itself, as Kendrick proclaimed himself not only as the King of NY, but the KING. Hopefully the entire East Coast uses the old Puffy formula and not cry about the situation, but make quality music for the masses instead of stop living in the past and dwelling on the “glory days”.
Shout outs to the West Coast one time!