I've been to Long Beach a few times, fam...i wasnt impressed. Stop watching Boyz in da Hood and shit and fall back...per capita, hardly any city on the map sees as many murders as Baltimore. I'd walk down any fucking street in the country because i've seen it all and did it all.

Bottom line...most of yall are young cats from the burbs..when i was yalls age, i would have NEVER spent this much fucking time on the internet.

so then he should kno all about j. cole and where hes repping...

a no-where town called fayetteville

what exactly does hood credibility have to do with any of this anyway....

Rakim is from Long Island in New York..

does he get no street credibility?..

people go through their own struggle everywhere, where you're from is completely irrelevant.

My homies from D.C...said it was crazy there but he lives in Lousiville (KY) (as of now juss goin back n forth)..which used to be the #1 murder capital of the US(Louisville<)...both are bad...so id say baltimores no different than dc! BUT LOUISVILLE IS MY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!:D

EXACTLY!!!!!!!! Bet the shit I been through is nuttin compared to most of these so called "Ghetto Mufuckas From the "BIG" City"

I cant say thats a good look but...

Get that money homie. Congrats to dat guy.

the more i look at this argument...the more i see both sides..

real hip hop came from the streets, and damn near every one of the legends of hip hop came from the hood, so there's got to be some sort of correlation there. to be honest, street cred does play a role in the music i listen to.

i like CNN and Mobb Deep because i've been through what they've gone through and i can relate to the shit they talk about.

but i also listen to Kanye West...i guess its different...idk

Dudes don't understand this is the type of shit I do research about and compute probabilities, confidence intervals, etc. (like actuaries) ... Statistically he has like a .0001% chance of gettin on from Syracuse let a lone gettin a major record deal hahaha. Numbers don't lie. Do you know how many others dudes have came before him and tried to get on? Demographics is the name of the game folks. It does affect your future especially in America, otherwise the "electoral college" system would be changed ...

you do understand that you've been slowly exposing your ignorance for a while now, right?

there can be no statistical analysis on something like this. looking at which artists have made it big and where they are from has no STATISTICAL relation to the probability of where the next artist will be from.

granted, a person from a larger city is more likely to gain exposure more easily, and have connections...but the fact is...blowing up is liking popping corn...no one can predict the next kernel to pop...

for you to lay some sort of mathematical claim on this is totally foolish. PLENTY of people who you THINK are from 'the hood' only claim it, or lived there shortly...

K stop this is simple Labor Economics ... you have no fuckin clue duke, this is the shit researchers and economists do hahaha

what is a 'researcher'? lol...stop being vague dude...

and what tha fuck would an economist have to do with this topic lol???

just stop it yo....

naw you cant walk down kansas city missouri,
Kansas city make baltimore look like hundred oaks califoria

checkk da crime rates

we the only city that got more rappers then any other place in the world


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Shittin on balitmore rap

Dam, yall motherfuckers can never stay on topic in here, who gives a fuck where you're from, nigga from the street don't buy albums anyways. On topic I think signing with Soulja Boy is a good look, if he puts Soulja Boy on a song it's guaranteed to get radio play.

the haaaannh dance

lol...are you equating a rapper being from there to being a tough city?? lol....

donnnnt doooo daaaat
only city prolly liver than Bmore was New Orleans before the flood

naw nigga bmore not even on da fuckin ratings of most dangerous

Kansas city is.

and naw i was just sayin kc rappers r dope

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cuz u hve the freedom to do so


places in central america like el salvador

if ur not from that hood, yur warned before u come

its diffff

no hate....but i've never even heard ya city ring bells yo...my city is literally like a war torn place, kid...its literally 24/7 surveillance thats monitored on every block...ova night they killed a 70 year old for his scooter...they let him keep his jewelry though...

thats just dumb then ,
yall niggas are known but known for bein dumb , a sucka can bust a gun and dats wat yo towwn is full of

i never said i was proud of it yo...just that we're factually more dangerous than damn near any other city in the US

no hate. but

thats small around here

....i can keep goin but no time

theres a place rnd here
called
''road to heaven''

niqqa you live in the third world lol...its obviously no comparison

that sound gay

b-more is dangerous but nt like kc

for real yo...look up some shit when you get a chance...its a reason why its called Murdaland...i thought it was common knowledge, but i guess not

Dude's dope as fuck n that's just a move to get his music out there! Don't h8 on him cuz the label

Dudes right


But sometimes you just gotta read between the lines

thats cause the internet wasnt around wen u was young lmao


but i hardley be on this bitch i got one battle and not that many post

Like it or not, Conceited & you guys are cut from the same cloth...Stop hatin. How does this shit sound.. from internet battlin, to an actual battle league, to a record label? Shit is mad motivational to keep chasin the dream. You see people like Nas gettin signed and you think "Shit, thats 1 in a million"....

Now somebody that some of you interacted w/ on LB, shit, like me, some of you mighta spoke to him. Some might even kno him in real life...Now you cant say its 1 in a million, somebody you fuckin know achieved the dream.

Spooky you must not know about Syracuse if you think its soft. Syracuse has some hood ass places. Just cuz they have a university that has televised basketball games doesnt make them a rich white city. Every city has its parts.

Haha, props to Conceited.

Ha err'body has his/her opinion, i'm not knockin that. But how can anyone say how someone is real based on where he/she is from, wtf. i dont think i've ever heard that in my life. Its real nigguhs err'where. Even in south dakota, Ha.

Quote : Real recognize Real. & that is all.

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!......that shit was so fucking clever, fam...funny shit

Economists do research dummy. The words are almost interchangeable. K, this is an educated man's discussion hahaha. Where you live and who you are is a determining factor for any profession you choose. Labor economists consider and analyze the effect of the structure of population (demographics) as well as other factors that effect employment of all kinds (including entertainment). You should shut up now lol ... You are a dumb nigga from Baltimore.

I'm happy for Con... hopefully he puts out a major record and blow up... glad to be one of the dudes that had the priviledge of sparring with him... eZ~ :high:

Nice! Hope he really makes the most of this opportunity. Cuz just because you get signed doesn't guarantee shit..Dre signs 100's of artists and never puts them out there. Hope dude rises above the challenge.

Mad props to Con, no matter who signed him, he still got signed. Do ya thang Con!

spooky u stupid kid.....just................stop


and year in and year out the top murder cities are deroit, saint louis (was two years straight i believe), new orleans, baltimore, and kansas city is pretty high up but not top 5

cleveland and chicago too

just read that baltimore was per capita the highest murder rate in the world