Although Queens, New York rapper Cormega criticized his fellow New York emcees over their sound during an interview with Rethunk, he did give credit to Joey Bada$$ for representing the sound of Brooklyn, New York with his music.
While speaking on the Pro Era lyricist, Cormega compared the rapper to Brooklyn rap group, Black Moon. He later revealed that Joey Bada$$ is one of the newer artists he’s willing to collaborate with.
“You hear New York rappers that have production that sounds like they’re Southern artists,” Cormega said. “Or accents from their voice that sounds like they’re Southern artists. And that I don’t respect because your accent is a direct reflection of where you’re from. A lot of the new artists—I’m really impressed with Joey Bada$$. When you hear him he reminds me of early Black Moon. So, when you hear him you hear Brooklyn. So, I respect that. And you can tell he also studied from the greats…I respect that he can really freestyle. And I respect his enthusiasm towards rhyming. I admire that in any emcee. So, when I seen that it made me feel refreshed. Like I like that. So, I would definitely—I wouldn’t mind working with him. There’s a few people that I wouldn’t mind working with, but out of the younger artists I definitely have a newfound respect for him.”
Prior to speaking on Joey Bada$$ and New York Hip Hop, Cormega gave credit to the determined emcees out there who would rather make an effort to solidify their legacies rather than just “sit there.”
“Determination is what separates the achievements from the dreams,” he said. “Every emcee comes in with that ‘I wanna be the best’ or sticking their chest out feeling that they’re a good emcee. And then it becomes a point where some of us, a light clicks on in us and we want more than that. We just want to be great. We want to leave legacies. And nobody’s gonna give it to you. You can either sit there and wait for something or you can go and claim yours. And I’m motivated by that.”
Cormega’s interview with Rethunk can be found below.
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Cormega hit the hammer on the nail with these modern USA rappers from New York sounding like down South Rappers. Most of these rappers in the current millennium sound the same and miss the art of story telling. They miss the artistic lyricism of real emcees.
but you can’t lump all “down south” rappers into the dumbed down category. look at cats like’Face, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Cunninlynguists, 8ball MJG Killer Mike David Banner Etc. Etc. They spit better than 95% of any MC from anywhere let alone NY rappers. Isn’t Dead Prez from Florida?
‘Mega Montana is in my all time top 10 though. Realness was a mahfuccin classic
@minnesota Slick, i hear you. But i was referring to most of todays rappers. Those ones you mentioned there are from the oldskool and were quite good. Especially, OutKast
damn you called outkast “ol skool”. just made me feel old as fuck homie
This nigga did a song with Lil B. I don’t think we should listen to anything this nigga says. The Bridge is full of pathetic losers.
“The Bridge is full of pathetic losers.” Why won’t u come to the Bridge yourself and say that shit, and see if u make it out unharmed?
Looks like I struck a nerve. Y’all ain’t gonna do shit, nigga.
He is correct on certain NY rappers sounding south to sell records & be relevant, He does not discredit any southern artist skillz. Although its all about where u at not where u from. The main focus should be lyrics & skillz. He needs to be honest & describe those certain wackass southern rappers he describes as garbage to compare the fake newyorkers biting on em.
Mega cool but that nigga
He’s right alot of niggas biting the southern sound and dudes like Joey, action and roc marciano are keeping it NY.
Megas a scientist, metaphor analyst, predator I set it off like a terrorist, when I accelerate like a four Wheeler, and flex got a rep like a muthafuckin drug dealers. I’m an architect, and I spark the set, like the Jamaica niggas Flippin in marked for death, you not ready for primetime whenever I rhyme I’m superior………