You literally are ignoring the point. Dudes been dissing dead opps and all that, s*** been a thing probably even in the 90's. However, there wasn't anybody back then to hype it up for the masses like Ak does.

Fire song

Those .308s hit like 808s

f*** akademiks

Gimme some youtubers who did this s*** before Ak.

Man jus say u misspoke and leave it. U said wat u said and I addressed it.

I mean he played a huge role in it thats just the facts. There’s a reason why a lot of people from Chicago don’t f*** with dude. He made others view what we see and go through on a daily seem exciting like a video game. Now we got little Zach in Idaho talking about how he GDK and got niggas wilding cause they know AK go report that and give free clout their way. If AK was just reporting on s*** normally or not even reporting at all, “fan” culture surrounding street rap wouldn’t be as problematic as it is.

Kollege Kidd?

yea there was 4sure dudes from the streets back in the day but street rap wasnt on the same scale nor was it as mainstream back then, i agree w the rest of your post

if a nigga did get picked up back then they got molded into a rapper but now they throwin money at any hood nigga w 100k plays on his songs, and them niggas cant leave they environments cuz it takes away from their “credibility”

No because I didnt. We agree so im not gonna press it but I was saying he was the dude that made this s*** mainstream. I never said he INVENTED talking about this s***

As far as I know He just reposted it. Ak took things a bit farther than that

For wiz?

This is an example from around the time Keef and Lil Jay nem popped

Peep the view count and date, there were hella videos at the time sayin wat was poppin off

Even KollegeKidd got most their clout at the time off covering Chicago (they Chicago based tho) and they weren’t sensationalizing wat was happenin

Pinning everythin on Ak not accurate or realistic, he fasho contributed and ate the most

Okay thats a good one. I do remember knowing who they were before AK but I always thought of them as a local blog. Didnt know it was nationally known unless you from Illinois

Not a youtuber but WSHH and damn near every rap forum(where ak came from) were covering it heavily

It was also a focus of major news networks at the time

Not the same tbh. Yeah they reported on what was happening but they didn’t report on it in a way it’s animated.

Whats crazy now tho is theres a new “Ak” for every hood in the nation you got that guy who does videos on Memphis beef somebody on Cali beef somebody on Brooklyn/Bronx beef Florida etc.

Okay I get what you mean now. I still say Ak deserves the most blame cause like AMAN said, he made it onto some reality tv type s***. He may not have originated it but like I said, he made it mainstream which imo is worse

Niggas been doin this bro, before Ak, he took the flavor got hot, and the whole nation caught on

Niggas oc misremembering wat went down at the time

People see the career path and wanna end up on Complex too

I remember being on KTT back then and I didnt see too much of people following and wanting to know who dudes were unless theyade music, unlike today where the reddit niggas wanna know everybody including blockheads

S*** crazy. I heard about a channel for Jacksonville but all that other s*** is too wild to wrap my head around. Like how do these people not feel like cornballs speaking on that s*** being outsiders.

Ya

Tbh that the only way to hear about Illinois music, well them and fakeshoredrive for out of towners

I remember saying “damn Ak really ran off with kollege kidds sauce” when he started blowing up

WHEN DID I SAY THAT