Grew up in the 90s listening both to rap (tupac, dre, etc) and hip hop (primarily of the east coast variety) like wu tang, gangstarr, etc.

For the most part, I'm completely disinterested in rap these days, minus a few songs here and there so I don't follow the genre as much as I used to. I'm sure there are plenty of rappers from NY, but does gritty east coast hip hop still exist?

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Posted by c on z

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 10:34 am to 632627

We don't need the east coast/west coast beef anymore.

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Posted by saint amant steve

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 10:52 am to 632627

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Posted by cas4t

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 12:31 pm to 632627

A$AP Mob
Joey Bada$$
Wale
Mac Miller
J Cole
50 Cent
Action Bronson
Jay Z still counts

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Posted by BuccWildBammer

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 12:42 pm to 632627

Joey Badass
Apathy just dropped a great new album
even Desiigner (although I hate anything resembling Future, but he is popping right now to the young kids)
Action Bronson
There's always DOOM
Even though it was a collabo with KM who is from ATL, Run The Jewels 2 had a definite "boom bap" NY style sound to me
Freddie Gibbs (from Indiana, but I think has an East Coast sound) new album is bangin
Royce's new album

There's still plenty of East Coast rap & Hip Hop...you just aren't paying enough attention lately

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Posted by CaptainPanic

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 1:33 pm to 632627

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Does east coast hip hop even exist anymore?

Yes & it still destroys West Coast Hip Hop.

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Posted by Prosecuted Collins

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 2:25 pm to CaptainPanic

ASAP

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Posted by ipodking

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 3:02 pm to 632627

All hippty hop sounds the same now. New York rappers rap like they are from Atlanta

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Posted by TheOracle

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 3:35 pm to 632627

if by east coast hip hop you mean the dungeon style lo-fi production that wu tang, mobb deep, and gravediggaz used to frick with... If it's around its not popular. It seems like people are more into synthy stuff now. I had a record once by a group called Army of the Pharoahs, "The Torture Papers". It kinda sounded like old east coast shite. That's really all I got tho.

The Infamous by Mobb Deep is still one of the grimiest records there is

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Posted by WestCoastAg

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 5:31 pm to CaptainPanic

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Yes & it still destroys West Coast Hip Hop

if only the best rapper alive wasn't from compton and wasn't also the king of new york

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Posted by 632627

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 7:05 pm to TheOracle

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if by east coast hip hop you mean the dungeon style lo-fi production that wu tang, mobb deep, and gravediggaz used to frick with... If it's around its not popular

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Not 50 cent and j-Cole.... Jesus Christ.

like the other guy said, most rap sounds the same to me now, hard to discern between a guy from Atlanta any NYC.

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