Why I Hate Queens

There is an article in today's NY Daily News that pits Brooklyn and Queens against each other as the top borough to produce Hip Hop artists and I hated to see the fact that they didn't include The Home of Hip-Hop, The Bronx, but then again, I can't be mad. I am a staunch defender of my home borough to the death but I also have to give props where props are due. We've produced the likes of Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa, KRS-One, Fat Joe, Big Pun and countless others, but the impact and the amount of Hip Hop artists that have made a commercial impact has come from the borough of Queens. Maybe it's because of the size of Queens or maybe it's the water that's generated the amount of successful artists from that borough. Either way, i hate to admit it, but Queens has it locked when it comes to the achievements that the rappers that have hailed from that borough have accomplished!

People make some great points when saying that Brooklyn has the best lyricists and I may have to agree with them on that. you can't front on MC Lyte, Jay-Z, Big Daddy Kane, Biggie, Talib Kweli and many others that would put to shame any artists that would try to go word for word with them. But, the commercial success of such artists as LL Cool J, Run-DMC, 50 Cent,, Nas, Ja Rule and A Tribe Called Quest can't and shouldn't be denied, even by a strictly Bronx Hip-Hop, transplanted Harlem head!