What's Philadelphia rank in the hip-hop world?

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What sort of rank does Philadelphia have in the hip-hop world? I remember that back when I followed the genre, none of the artists that seemed the best or that I thought mattered the most were from here. Lately, I get the impression that Philadelphia is making a more significant contribution to hip-hop, and not just with one or two names.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it comes and it goes, but it will never be new york or la.

then again, "the south" gets lumped into one "location" so we're doing better than them i guess.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

except possibly atlanta.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

or new orleans or houston or miami

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

yall got AI though

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

is AI the new Tupac?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

he's probably the new shock g

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

minus humpty

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to give a shoutout to jazzy jeff, cash money, marvelous marv, cool c, steady b, 3xdope, schooly d, count coolout, eve, charlie baltimore, the roots, the goats, beanie sigal, joe the butcher for making everything sound soooooo fressssssssssh.
personally, i wanna hear roscoe p. coldchain. how could he not be great.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't Mr. Lif and Mr. Len both from Philly?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

#1 for Schooly D.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Philly definitely has more juice than D.C. or Baltimore, though of course nowhere near NYC. but Philly's been doing pretty good the past couple years; Eve, the whole State Property crew (Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Peedi Crakk, etc....I [heart] Free and Peedi especially), the Roots.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

it occurs to me that Joe the butcher has a whole kevin bacon thing going on (also from philly-and i even know his dad! which means i'm only one degree seperated) as far as who he has worked with/for:Cypress Hill/Kool Keith/Cyndi Lauper/Bob Dylan/Billy Joel/Butthole Surfers.and it goes on and on.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 May 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

AND JILL SCOTT Y'ALL!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Lif is from Boston, but not sure about Mr. Len. I always assumed Len was from NYC tho..

― tinobeat (tinobeat), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the two Smiths (Frankie and Will) both deserve shout-outs here. Add in Schooly-School, and Philly is way the phuck up there.

― chuck, Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

don't forget the beastie boys, g love, special sauce, will smith, and soo many more! Philly's got it up there, we represent all the way!

― Amy~, Saturday, 24 May 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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