Joey Badass
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
From like, you know, more more regional support of the city, if that makes sense.
I mean, like I know there's a lot going on in the radio right now, like, you know, enough, enough being let go, flex, whatever drama shit.
But, you know, even with them, like them recognizing and, you know, maybe trying to push the New York culture forward by paying more attention to like, you know, what's just going on largely and not just on a level of, you
um hype or internet or cloud or whatever you know what i'm saying so i mean outside of even just new york politics in general i mean you came out 2012 was 1999 which was coming towards the end of the blog era sort of how have things changed from the blog era to now
Streaming, I think, is the biggest change from the blog ever to now.
Like when I came out, Motherfucker was like on Dat Piff and like live mixtapes and shit like that.
That made me sound like an old man.
Yeah, like two dope boys and shit like that.
Like looking at the blog, like that's why I was the blogger because the, you know, you went to the sites to see what was new, what was developing.
Now it's like, I don't even know, like shit just become the trend now.
And then, you know, that's how people kind of find out about it.
But like back then I think it was more of a,
discovery-friendly environment, if it makes sense, in the landscape of the game.
How did you navigate that, though?
Because coming off the blog era where you were young and kind of a trailblazer in that regard and understood that world and things shifting, whether it be with Shipes, you were independent as well.