Status Ain't Hood Interviews Juelz Santana  This is a picture of
Juelz Santana reading a magazine.  Within a couple of weeks of
moving to New York, I'd seen Juelz Santana twice without even
trying, and both times he drove little kids to screaming. I'd
never paid much mind to Juelz, but he's working hard in this
city, and this is his city. One of the things that makes rap the
most fascinating music in the world is its regionalism, the way
someone like the Three-6 Mafia can be absolutely huge in one
city and then be virtually unknown everywhere else. Whereas
someone like 50 Cent is a global pop star who happens to come
from New York, Juelz and the Diplomats are a regional rap group
whose region is New York. They've got the specifically defined
aesthetic and mythical local connections and impenetrable slang
of a regional rap group, and they grind out mixtapes at the same
insane rate. They're also one of the few New York groups to work
with regional groups from other places. Jadakiss might show up
on a Lil Jon al