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since the got damn Chronic. And I'll fight and defend it, prove it, whatever.
For most people outside of L.A., they saw the whole decade as a dark period, while some even say we fell off for good after 96. I'll argue that we had a great year in 2001, but the nationwide impact wasn't as big as I thought back then.
The Game came in 2005, and I'd say he was a top 25 Rapper for the decade...but he didn't bring the West or L.A. back in any way...he was just big on his own. Did anything follow that? Nope...even folks in his camp like G. Malone left and had to do it on their own, and never got close.
What Jerkin did was get the youth on L.A's side, because most folks who are like 26-32 or so now have the lowest perception on L.A. and West Coast Rap...folks who are 35+ were there to see Chronic, Doggystyle, etc. With Jerkin, we followed the whole Snap and "Crank dat" YouTube type stuff, and put our own twist to it that youngsters nationwide loved.
I'll even go as far as to say that it busted the door wide open for Kendrick, Dom Kennedy, even Odd Future..because it was like "Yeah, we Jerk (ha..), we dance, BUT....check this out too!" and people were willing to listen. It's no coincidence that all these different styles here came out within the same few years...it was all connected.
I don't want to say it had a bigger impact than Hyphy, because you it's clear that Hyphy is Jerkin's Dad...and Jerkin was a completely stripped down, more basic, and wacker version of Hyphy, to be real. But what is true, is that Hyphy's biggest hits came from Lil Jon, not because they were better than the Rick Rock/Mac Dre/Keak songs, but because he was Lil Jon and was the Luke of the decade. With Jerkin, ALL the songs were produced and put out by lil young L.A. kids who had no direction or even major connects, and they got big from being viral on YouTube. ------------------------------
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