It looks like there’s a turf war brewing. Nassau (County) State of Mind, a remix of Jay Z’s “Empire State Of Mind” was an instant viral hit, and Suffolk got a little jealous. So a group of Suffolk residents fired back with their own video Tuesday.
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If this were the 1950s, they’d meet in a park at dusk and have a rumble. But since its 2010, they’re battling in cyberspace. Namely, the mean streets of YouTube.
The minds behind Suffolk (County) State of Mind rap about many of the same things as their Nassau enemies: traffic, shopping malls (Americana Manhasset vs. Tanger Outlets), pizza, italian ices and bagels. They also do their fair share of Nassau-slamming (“Nassau couldn’t compete/even on Suffolk’s worse day.”)
In their defense, Nassau attacked first (“Suffolk’s for the working class…”). Tyler Gilden, the Syracuse University film student and Long Island native who produced the Nassau video, was blown away by the response so far.
“I knew the video would be pretty good, but I completely underestimated how big it would be,” Gildin told his school newspaper, The Daily Orange. “I was shocked by how many people, especially parents and older people, were posting the video on their Facebooks and mass e-mailing it.”
While both videos have sparked ardent diatribes of Nassau and Suffolk loyalists—many of which we cannot quote here—Nassau (county) State of Mind leads with more than 650,000 views and counting since being posted Aug. 13.
West Babylon-based radio station WBLI FM, which is mentioned in the Suffolk video, currently has a poll where fans can vote which video is the best.
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wow nassau is so much better. all these kids are fags in these videos. if u come down to seaford,massapequa,wantagh,freeport and levittown. u will see who the real kids are
LOL, The Both videos are great.The suffolk one is better. Im from suffolk but love Nassau cuase its the only way to get off this shitty island. LOL.
if anyone in suffolk takes any of these tools from hewlett or jericho seriously, ur retarded. come by by east meadow, levitown, farmingdale, freeport, or massapequa and see the real nassauians. those kids are as gay as it gets.
suffolk forever! 631 ~ thaats whaddup
US nassausians have one thing suffolk can never get two words all american
suffolk blows. gold coast, baby
Um…lol…only reason the suffolk county one blew up was because it shows up when u look up NASSAU COUNTY STATE OF MIND….the difference between them….Nassau county was the funny video, suffolk county seemed a little butt hurt, MAYBE BECAUSE THEY REALLY KNOW NASSAU’S better. and lastly…we don have girls in our video cause we dont want them singing as crappy as the girl in the suffolk video…NASSAU 4 LIFE HAHA
At least Suffolk had girls in it.That girls voice was kick ass. Nassau had a bunch of dudes pullin on thier croch wishing they had a girl to sing back up . If they did maybe they would have cleaned up the profanity from thier version.
Nassau leads in web views because the Suffolk video just came out Sunday but already has more than 100K views.
Suffolk couldn’t even get someone as hot as Alicia Keys to sing the chorus. Thanks Suffolk. Nassau County 4 Life!