[preciousjeni]

This past semester, I was talking with one of my friends up here (from the Bronx) who swore up and down that all hip-hop and rap in the States goes through New York before it goes out to the rest of the country. There's no talking to him because he used to own a hip-hop/rap magazine that sold in the city. His favorite interview of all time was with DMX. (I don't want to say his name on this board, but if you know about NYC music magazines from the 1990s, PM me and we'll try to figure out which one it was.)

Anyway, I was saying that NYC was a powerhouse in the past and put out the big names in the genre originally. But, now that I've lived in both GA and NY, I realize that each area plays its own music the majority of the time. Unless an artist is REALLY well known, you pretty much have a different flavor from different places. I've never heard so much east coast rap (which I honestly don't like much at all) as I have since I've been up here.

And, I don't even listen to much else but Christian music as it is! It's when I'm flipping through the channels in the car sometimes that I come across stations like Hot 97 and it's ALWAYS some NYC rap. But, they play dirty south rap too -- they were killing "Wait" for a while there. Ok - so, I have to be honest. If when I'm flipping through the channels I hear any southern folks, I'll listen to it because I love the accents.

My secret pleasure is "Lovers and Friends" because it has all my good folks on it.


Edited because I straight typed the WRONG BOROUGH!