After XXL posted a clip of Metro Boomin saying music needs to go back to being regional, it sparked a convo we couldn't ignore. In the video, Metro reflects on how social media made everything feel the same. How sounds, styles, and even slang are getting blended to the point where you can’t tell where anything’s from anymore.

So we had a real DEHH style discussion about it. Is Metro right Has music lost its regional identity And does his new mixtape A Futuristic Summa actually bring that feeling back Pull up as we unpack the video, reflect on how regions used to shape hip hop from Atlanta to NY to LA to the Midwest and ask whether the game can ever really go back Let us know in the chat if Metro is just reminiscing or if this is the wake up call hip hop needs

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