alago
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The Smiths didn't used to be a major band, mostly listened to by low-rider Chicanos for some reason.
Jennifer Connelly was sort of a B+ celb in the 90s.
Few Americans knew who Kate Bush in the 80s, she wasn't even on MTV much if at all.
Retroactive Celebrity.
Post-Menshevik@Fullantho
@Empty_America Do young people know that The Smiths were not a big band when they were around?
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Dude looks too young to have that accent naturally.
SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma@SubwayTakes
New York City breakfast scene is mid !!
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@PossumPatriot @JustinWhang Long Island, Staten Island, northeast parts of the Bronx, parts of westhcester and plenty of north Jersey have twenty something white kids with real accents!
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@JustinWhang Idk if it's still like this but the last time I was on long Island the accents were still around. Seems like it's concentrating in certain areas while disappearing in others.
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@Thedrivenman The ring all for this was so hard. Pretty sure he came out to redman’s Time 4 sum Aksion
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When Mike Tyson walked back into Vegas, the entire celebrity world showed up... and it ended in 89 seconds
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@tadpolemilk420 @ptichushka This is definitely true. Slowdive way more embraced by the youth than MBV. Not sure how that happened - but the algorithm chose Slowdive
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@ptichushka Zoomers went Slowdive where millennials went MBV
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NYC Area Tier List
S Tier:
Murray Hill
West Village
SoHo
Williamsburg
A Tier:
Lower East Side
East Village
Meatpacking District
Flatiron
Greenpoint
Astoria
B Tier:
Upper East Side
Upper West Side
Bushwick
Long Island City
Park Slope
DUMBO
Gramercy
Fidi
C Tier:
Kips Bay
Hell’s Kitchen
Chelsea
Harlem
Bed-Stuy
Forest Hills
D Tier:
Midtown
Financial District
Red Hook
Sunset Park
Jackson Heights
Bronx Little Italy
F Tier:
Times Square
Penn Station Area
Roosevelt Island
Brownsville
East New York
Staten Island
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@BlackNarutoUzi @StatisticUrban @GoldJammin @IamKingWilliams Anything that’s an hour train commute to Penn station is technically NY metro. Middlesex a lot closet to NYC than it is to Philly
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@StatisticUrban @GoldJammin @IamKingWilliams Middlesex counts?? I used to live there and it did NOT feel like it was apart of the NYC metro
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@Ny1982U @StatisticUrban @GoldJammin @IamKingWilliams Are you like ten years old? NY metro are is most definitely a term and has been used for decades
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@StatisticUrban @GoldJammin @IamKingWilliams Literally nobody calls any area outside of the 5 boroughs NYC metro area. All these other areas are upstate NY. Nothing to do with NYC
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@yencizzle @Ny1982U @StatisticUrban @GoldJammin @IamKingWilliams Whaaa? Five boroughs are not states. Tri state refers to NY/NJ/CT. Where you from?
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@DamnDeShawn That are was faaaar on the round to gentrification before the arena. And what was in that spot? Some crusty old transit carcass. Don’t act like this was Robert Moses putting a highway through Central Park or some shit
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as a former employee at Barclays
It did nothing for it. Those black businesses been gone. The community it displaced would argue against your point wholeheartedly.
while gentrification may have already been on its way that move fast forwarded its progress yearrrss ahead.
Zeeti@DJZeeti
Barclays did more for the community than apartments would have .. when the stadium opened you had to have a Brooklyn address to even apply. They put black businesses in the stadium. They were even signing up workers with Carver bank which is black owned
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@BeyondTheMemes You really had to be there when the Rebirth album dropped. Butterfly’s delivery was different than anyone at the time and their jazz samples were more pronounced than the premo and Pete rock who were mostly taking just small sounds to add texture. They also dressed weird haha
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Whether anyone agrees with the term or not, DP’s had a unique spin especially for the time. Beyond just the lineup/personnel, their “quirky” approach stood out at a time when the Native Tongues were splintering and “neosoul” was still years away.
Thee Boom Bap Hip Hop/Vinyl Historian #🇺🇸ADOS@Watson3172
There was nothing alternative about Digable Planets. 2 male MCs 1 female MC. A full album of rapping in the tradition of the Crash Crew and Funky Four plus 1
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where my homiez?
iamHBY@iamHBY
What’s the best West Coast-sounding rap song from a non-West Coast rapper or group?
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@FuriousStylesIV Nah not really. Hot97 loved it. But it was just rap beef. They were also really rich successful dudes at the time fairly removed from the streets. If the battle had happened in like 95 it’d been different
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Serious question for NY'ers: when these 2 were beefin was the streets on fire? Like did yall feel like things were going to go down?
Example: when cube and cypress hill were beefin the block was hot so to speak
According 2 Hip Hop@A2HHTheGame
Jay-Z confirms that the Nas BAR ‘Lex with tv sets the minimum’ was The beginning of their battle and he regrets he and nas were beefing: “I actually regret that, because I really like Nas. He’s a really nice guy” - Jay-Z
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This is true. The contrast make in NJ is “the short hills mall vs the Livingston mall”
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alago@ada77341
@constans High end malls live on. Working-middle class malls in middle America are dying
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I was at the Short Hills Mall (excuse me, “The Mall at Short Hills”) yesterday, and it was pretty full!
Cigarette Nostalgia@CigsMake
The most radicalizing videos on the internet are from about 40 years ago when malls were packed
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@GentleDoofus Denzel’s film catalogue is definitely better than Gosling’s
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It speaks to Denzel's power that he might have the worst filmography on average out of the four, but there's basically no question that he's #1
TylerCWhitmore@TylerCWhitmore
Rank these 4 actors all-time: Ryan Gosling Leonardo DiCaprio Denzel Washington Christian Bale
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@BeyondTheMemes True. In 93-94 when Nas solidified his greatness hip hip was still pure and heads would critique your every move. Kane got critiqued like crazy too. Big and then later Jay was a more commercial era and people accepted that street rappers would be a little commercial
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It’s because Nas debuted before the Bad Boy-ification of NYC happened and East Coast greatness was still measured on a boom bap scale. He had to adjust to that—and if you loved boom bap in 1994, you prolly resented a lot about 1996 mafioso-ism.
Spydolo@saye_yadolo
It’s weird. Biggie 2pac Jayz never got criticized for doing Mainstream songs. Only Nas they say went commercial. He’s the only GOAT Rapper that they look at as the Perfect Rapper so he’s not allowed to do anything commercial. Itvwas criticized back then by Purist now the same purist are saying It was written is better than illmatic. Funny as phuck. Only Nas gets this treatment.
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@BeyondTheMemes I hear ya — BIG pushed that style forward, but the whole New Jack Swing and Teddy Riley thing merged a lot of hip hop and R&B as well two or three years before BIG. I mean, Slick Rick had a verse on Al B Sure’s album in like 1989
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The R&Bification of East Coast street rappers is directly attributable to Biggie. That’s why you can’t just reduce the impact of music to simply “two great albums.” Those albums’ influence and importance have to be considered. He represents a major shift.
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@JessiAngel143 @UziCryptoo If he’s been tenured for thirty years or so it’s likely in NY/NJ area. These guys have gotten salary increases forever and have amazing pensions
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@UziCryptoo No teacher makes $140k, not even a Principal makes this much. This is clearly a baiting tweet
You are a liar. Go back to sleep
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