mc_millionaire said:
I never mentioned ‘The Source magazine'; I merely said that I couldn't cite the source for the article I read. As a matter of fact, it was actually a well respected publication which I believe doesn‘t specialise in hip hop which would make it even more credible.
Nonetheless, your welcome to your opinion but it’s been refuted time and time again since the passing of both artists which makes it slightly ludicrous to me. If we examine hip hop as a genre, I think it’s safe to say that Biggie is generally considered to be the ‘G.O.A.T’ by most well respected hip hop academics. Now you can disagree with this as much as you like (I don’t want to start up a Pac vs. Biggie) thread.
Moreover my observation stems from listening to the majority of well respected hip hop stations on the East Coast; like it or not whilst Hot 97 does not represent the entire opinions of everyone in New York it’s still the market leader and has a bigger hip hop listening base on the East Coast than any other station.
Additionally, the majority of common listeners will make up their own minds about who they like better and will not be influenced by the likes of Flex shouting out BIG ONCE in a while. In saying that Biggie rarely got requested on Angie's show is contradicting your own arguement about everyone on HOT 97 trying to influience the fans anyway - the same people that listen to Angie also listen to Flex, Dayola etc...whats your point? they still voted Biggie as the greatest...requests mean nothing...like I said Biggie does not have a body of work comparable to Pac's and therefore no one is going to request songs they have heard a million times.
To be frank, It’s absolutely astonishing you still think NYC has more love for 2Pac than Biggie when there is so much evidence to suggest otherwise.
Okay first of all, how do you know the listeners will make up their mind on their own and are strong enough not to be influenced? Are you assuming that everyone in New York or everyone who listens to the station is a hip hop head. How do you know that the majority of the people that listen to the show aren't just some working class females who probably are more into r n' b that just happen to listen to the show on their way to and from work. I bet you those that voted just went on the site for some prizes and then made a vote on there way out or something. From observations, people that mostly listen to Hot 97 are casual female fans of rap music.
If I didn't know anything or too much about basketball and if I was to turn to a sports radio show that was the biggest radio sports show on the coast and then having to listen to the hosts of that station constantly talking about Jordan's stats and then hearing them say that Micheal Jordan is the greatest, I'm sure I will probably believe it. So my point is if you are not into hip hop as much as you are into another musical genre and you listen to Hot 97 on a common basis, then you'd believe what they say because like you said that station is the market leader and has the biggest hip hop base on the Eastcoasts.
I'm very sure that not everyone that listens to the station is into hip hop. So when Funk Flex is playing some of Biggie's dopest freestyles for about a half an hour up to an hour and saying " New York, put your lighters up for the greatest of all time", you best believe that this listener who doesn't know any better will believe that hype.
You have to remember also that plenty of true hip hop heads do not listen to hot 97 or the radio period. You'd be surprised how many people in NY hoods that buy all the mixtapes, bootlegs, and buy cd's do not listen to the radio. Yet alone participate in radio surveys or anything like that because plenty of people believe that Hot 97 is shady and promotes trash rap music. And then you also have to ask yourself this question about how many people in the NY hoods that probably are true hip hop heads voted on this poll. How many people in NY urban communities even have the internet or better yet computers to even go online and vote. In fact, How many people even knew about this poll? Like I said, everyone in NY didn't vote, so you can't just automatically assume that the majority of people out there like Pac less than Biggie. From about 97-98,people in NYC were eating up those Makaveli bootlegs on the street. So this is on a large scale.
You can't just sit up here and say well Hot 97 listeners, who mostly reside in NY voted for Biggie as the greatest, so most people in NY agree that Biggie is the greatest-That's the wrong concept you got.
I'm not arguing that NYC got more love for 2pac than Biggie, but my argument is that you shouldn't be so sure just because of a poll. A poll that is not even New York alone. Hot 97 listeners are in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and I think some parts of Philly, so don't be so sure.
