Fat Joe has a theory about what led to New York City Hip Hop no longer being on the throne, and he believes ego had a lot to do with it.
Joey Crack hopped on Instagram earlier this week to explain that he thinks Atlanta watched how the NYC Hip Hop scene was moving in the 2000s and learned not to make the same mistakes by being much more collaborative.
“New York Hip Hop was destroyed single-handedly by ego,” Joe declared. “The South saw how we fucked it up, meaning Atlanta, and they cliqued up and said, ‘We not gonna make that mistake.’ We got Roc-A-Fella, we got Ruff Ryders, we got Terror Squad, we got G-Unit, we got Dipset.”
Joe cited things like different rappers claiming they were the King of New York, which made people feel a certain type of way and resulted in relationships being damaged, and that led to lucrative opportunities being missed out on.
“As soon as muthafuckas started getting hot and started getting a different type of money,” he continued. “They started feeling like they that person, they that guy. It’s so many Kings of New York. Even me — every week someone said they the king.
“That’s all ego. It fucks up your ability to work with each other, to get money with each other, to embrace each other, to come up.”
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WOW WHAT A TAKE! you think? fif jay lox fab diddy. aint none of them linked when it mattered.
It wasn’t ego. Way deeper than that. The problem is that black people hate each other.
Not true. All black people do not hate each other. Some just get along, just like all other races. It was definitely ego. Atlanta doesn’t act that way and it shows
Most black people hate black people. Black people hate other black people more than they hate white people
Yeah they act worse. They act, sound and dress like girls… gossip, wear makeup, tight bright clothes, hug,kiss,and sleep with each other. That’s so much better.
Stop using Atlanta as an example. You must be white. Black people in Atlanta worship white people, especially black women in that city. Don’t get fooled with the symbolism of blacks in Atlanta
That’s nothing new.
what ? Fat Joe isn’t even black…then how did Atlanta come up?? Those are all black rappers dummy
You don’t remember the violent beefs between Atlanta rappers?
Black people also hate every other ethnicity. And everybody hate black people.
so if everybody “hate black people” why everybody want to dress and talk and act and look like black people and as soon as the sun goes down wants to be every black man best friend at the club? you hate that every girl you like has a black bf and seems to prefer black men. so you exaggerate racist nonsense on here where its either black people posting or people who work with black folks everyday. it’s just propaganda to post hate against black folks and claim it’s a joke or fact or whatever. everybody doesn’t hate black folks. u hateful people who post here are one step away from joining the buffalo shooter in the rubber room – fully padded cells are waiting
You came with that logical shit that they wont like
The entire entertainment industry is not run by white people, but small hats. The small hats are as white as let’s say dark skin indian people are consired black. You people are hating on the wrong whitey. Educate yo self, punks.
Tell ’em
shut UP, WHITE Boi
Warm farts
black folks screwed themselves when they decided they didn’t have any standards and whatever the charts claimed white people liked was fine by them. whenever anyone would stand up for the art form they got shouted down humiliated and mocked. remember “who hurt you?” and all that ? Remember when everybody was “unbothered” about celebrating retardation in rap music? So NYC didn’t hold up standards – most important didn’t build with outsiders who respected the standard – so now false media can get any black clown from any slum in the world and call him a rapper. Diddy won’t object neither will hov they killed the game
blk folks screwed themselves when they decided they didn’t have any standards and whatever the charts claimed white kids liked was fine by them. whenever anyone would stand up for the art form they got shouted down humiliated and mocked. remember “who hurt you?” and all that ? Remember when everybody was “unbothered” about celebrating retardation in rap music? So NYC didn’t hold up standards – most important didn’t build with outsiders who respected the standard – so now false media can get any black clown from any slum in the world and call him a rapper. Diddy won’t object neither will hov they killed the game
Andre 3 stacks told y’all back @ The ‘95 Source Awards that The SOUTH “Got Sumthin to Say”,Not Just In tha ATL,Alabama,Memphis,Mississippi,Carolinas,Kentucky,New Orleans,Miami,TEXAS.Then went to Midwest the Lou(Nelly)Kansas City (Tech N9ne),Chicago Common,Twista,Cruical Conflict,KANYE,Do or die…Indiana Freddy Gibb…But Joey Crack Is Correct but left out The Wu & Boot Camp Clik.Although All them Crewz He name we’re beefin or rivaleries.The $OUTH was comin Anyway by the foundation that was Already laid By Uncle Luke & 2 Live Crew,The Ghetto Boyz,UGK,Poison Clan… In the Mid ‘80’s to the early ‘90s
FAT JOE IS CORRECT, BUT I ALSO BLAME GENTRIFICATION. ALL THE NIGHTCLUBS AND SPOTS WERE CLOSED AND BECAME COFFEE SHOPS. FOR BETTER OR WORST THAT KIND OF KILLED THE STREET ENERGY IN THE CITY AND ENCOURGAGED EVERYONE TO BORROW SOUTHERN SLANG.
The sound changed and the south was the first to embrace the new sound. It will change again and whichever regions grabs it first will have a hold on it for a long time