A newly found rivalry in East Coast hip hop was dropped at the floor over the weekend when Harlem’s Jim Jones and Dave East squared off with Brooklyn’s Fabolous and Maino to debate who’s extra recognized for trend between Harlem and Brooklyn throughout a spirited section on the Artist 2 Artist Podcast.

New York has at all times been hip-hop’s trend capital, however the query of which borough wears the crown stays unsettled. In lower than seven minutes, the quartet gave their views on the talk: does Harlem personal the legacy of originality, or has Brooklyn outlined hip-hop’s model for the world?

Fabolous wasted no time staking Brooklyn’s declare. He pointed to the borough’s heavyweights—The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and himself—as arbiters of world style.

“Me, Big, and Hov outweighed Harlem’s [impact],” Fab declared.

He invoked Biggie’s Coogi sweaters and Versace shades as icons of ’90s luxurious, whereas crediting Jay-Z with reshaping rap’s uniform by buying and selling jerseys for button-ups and designer fits. For Fab, Brooklyn’s energy rests in scale, in turning street-born seems to be into mainstream trend language.

Jim Jones countered with Harlem’s case. He traced the borough’s lineage again to Dapper Dan, whose customized Gucci and Louis Vuitton items within the Eighties blurred the road between excessive trend and the block. Harlem, he argued, set the stage for the bling period by Dipset’s pink furs, velour tracksuits, and outsized jewellery within the 2000s.

“The jewelry game, that was us,” Jim reminded Fab, insisting Harlem lit the spark Brooklyn solely amplified.

Dave East added gasoline, citing A$AP Rocky as proof of Harlem’s enduring attain. “Rocky got a generation,” he mentioned, noting Rocky’s skill to merge uptown swagger with Paris runway magnificence.

Jones went additional, joking that Brooklyn’s position has at all times been to “steal” Harlem’s concepts. Fab didn’t dispute it—he reframed it. “I might take a Harlem style,” he admitted, “but I bring it to Brooklyn in my own way.”

The viral clip, already surpassing 454,000 views on X, cut up followers sharply. Harlem loyalists dubbed their borough “the Urban Fashion Capital of the World.”

Brooklyn supporters fired again that “Fab was flyer than the whole Dipset.” Others merely embraced the trade as pure New York theater.

The debate between the 2 boroughs seems to be everlasting.