Y'all ain't had pirate radio on the WC? Before streaming, pirate radio was big in Miami for breaking in new artists, people got tired of hearing the same old payola fueled $h!t. Had a homeboy that set up a radio station in his garage/barber shop LOL.
Jay-Z...Reasonable Doubt, In My Lifetime Vol.1, & Volume 2...Hard Knock Life.
Tupac...2Pacalypse Now, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...,Me Against The World, & All Eyez On Me...IMHO, Me Against The World was His best work.
As far as reality rap goes, I always thought the last verse of Spoonie G's Love Rap was the first reality rap song...the reverb on that verse is sick!!!
Jamaicans were doing Hip Ho
Yup.
And don't forget Tennessee had Eightball & MJG & 36 Mafia.
Philly had/has State Property, Meek Mill, and before that they had PSK & Cool C.
And to add to your Louisiana list, they had Big Mike, who IMO was a very underrated lyricist:
The rap game right now reminds me of a marathon...a bunch of rappers bunched up, jostling for position, and then comes along a Rakim, Biggie, Jay Z, Nas, Tupac, Method Man, Snoop, etc., to lap their @$$e$ LOL.
$h!t happens every time!!!
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LOL, name a current rapper with better lyrics than this:
Who shot ya?
Separate the weak from the ob-so-lete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on n!gga, ******* all that bickering beef
I can hear sweat tri-ck-ling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering...