If you talking about keeping it real and rapping about shit they doing. I think the bay is probably the only place cats is rapping bout shit they doing. Cats like jay-z creative vision when he came out was based on cat he knew. Jay-z never was no big ass dope boy or no street cat. Same goes for rick ross and lil wayne. When hip-hop first started everybody was rapping about shit they didn't have but everything they wanted. It was rhyme and reason threw there own vision
A few years back some very plugged in ny cats told me is that dame and jay was both really hustlin. They wasn't no damn felix mitchell but they was definitley gettin it in on a real level.