BAMMER said:
It's like I've said a million times Panther,your stats mean shit.Holly Park and Magnolia would be tied together in your research...are they alike?Queen Anne and the CD?
It ain't ain't where your from,it's right where your at.I mean I grew up in West Seattle,but where I lived was safe.A half mile away was bananas.
And like I've said a million times....
1) Your point is nowhere near beyond me, there is even a term for it. It's called the ecological fallacy (projecting the characteristics of a larger unit upon a smaller unit within that larger unit), and it's a serious data quality issue in urban geography. However, it does not mean that conclusions cannot be drawn. Of course Holly Park and Magnolia are worlds apart, but what the numbers do mean is that the Holly Park's of the world make up say 10% of Seattle while the Magnolia's make up say 20%, with the other 60% of the town somewhere in between. The numbers show that in places like St. Louis or Richmond VA, the Holly Park's make up a
hell of a lot bigger chunk of the city than they do in the S-E-A. Which does
NOT mean the worst of those places is worse than the worst of here, or that the people from there are any more 'real' than the people who are from there here. What it
DOES mean is that a) Seattle has fewer people from these places b/c they are less of a presence in the city and b) the Holly Park's of the world are going to play a much much smaller role in developing the city's national reputation than they are in other cities, which certainly does have an effect on the look major's will give it.
2) On a personal level I go everywhere I need to go in town without thinking about anything. I won't do the same in my new city nor will I do that in other places. Take that for what it's worth.
So with A and B being said does either one bode well for a gangster rapper making it out here? HELL NO.
Before people start goin off on how the rich whiteboy who graduated from Seattle Prep xpanther206 is on some gay shit or something and doesn't know the hood or hasn't lived through shit, just look at who the guys making a living off this rap in the NW are. It's guys like Grayskul, Boom Bap, Swollen Members etc. NOT gangster rap music, and it's not about the music because the music from those guys SUCKS compared to the gangster music from out here. It is not a coincidence who the hip-hop crews with the money are in this area, just like it's not a coincidence its the gangster guys blowing in other cities.
So I don't know the message I'm trying to deliver other than on both a local consumer and national consumer scale, the DEMOGRAPHICS FOR GANGSTER RAP MUSIC COMING OUT OF THE 206 ARE NOT GOOD BECAUSE IT IS LESS LIKELY TO BE MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE THERE ARE FEWER PEOPLE AND ONCE IT IS MADE (guys like SLR, Tha Loc, 151, RHS etc the list goes on), IT IS LESS LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED BY PEOPLE BOTH HERE AND NATIONALLY
LARGELY AS A RESULT OF THE SIMPLE DEMOGRAPHICS .
Bottom Line EVERYBODY nationally and the majority of the population locally does not think that Seattle is 'tough' 'thoro' 'gangsta' whatever you want to call it. And there's a good reason they think that when thinking comparatively. If Seattle wants to be gangster, it should compare itself to Vancouver BC. None of this is a good formula for the exporting of gangster rap music, period.
