The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
I can't be the only one who had this tape.....It was dubb but still,
Pre Chronic
Pre Chronic
1991 is such an underrated year in Hip Hop history
- Thread starter Hamza B.
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Late 1991...MJ made us remember why he was king
Paula Abdul was still a threat
Nirvana broke thru mainstream
Paula Abdul was still a threat
Nirvana broke thru mainstream
Boyz II Men came in the game
I'll never forget the first time I ever heard this song.....It just popped up on The Box ...i remember thinking after it ended "That song was kinda sad and dope at the same time" and I waitied for it to come on again....and it did..over and over and over again.
Then there was Jodeci...aww man...this song right here:
I'll never forget the first time I ever heard this song.....It just popped up on The Box ...i remember thinking after it ended "That song was kinda sad and dope at the same time" and I waitied for it to come on again....and it did..over and over and over again.
Then there was Jodeci...aww man...this song right here:
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
With no let up
Out in Cali you heard it outta cars, radio was pumpin it. I was in Musicland the day nikkaz4life dropped, line was all the way to the back of the store. It was wild to see the type of folks that was buying and asking for that album. Lily white mamas and grandmamas buying that album for their kids, still remember that shyt like it was yesterday.
This is the song that will always be the theme of me losing my virginity
This song is like the second theme of me losing my virginity.....Real big in 1991. Both versions actually count.
this is 3rd by default...New jack City was real big in my world that year.
This song is like the second theme of me losing my virginity.....Real big in 1991. Both versions actually count.
this is 3rd by default...New jack City was real big in my world that year.
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
Thought I was smooth tryna play some Ralph Tresvant for this chick I liked, she took the headphones off and asked if I had that "new" DJ QUIK
Thought I was smooth tryna play some Ralph Tresvant for this chick I liked, she took the headphones off and asked if I had that "new" DJ QUIK
DJ Quik represented that moment when cursing on records was really starting to be the norm. I first heard of him by word of mouth in North Carolina...My cousins kept saying the chorus to "Sweet Black p*ssy" which was big at the time because it sounded filthy.(They also kept saying "she swallowed it"...which was also filthy)
Nowadays those kinda lyrics are normal in Hip Hop. but back then it was like
Then u had Pop That p*ssy and fukk Compton....all these themes with filth and curse words.....it was new in Hip Hop. Yeah u had Slick Rick saying Lick The Balls in 88 and NWA saying fukk The Police soon after but by 1991....filth and cursing was taking over........Thats why I say it was justified because at the time it was fresh and new...nowadays its over played out.
Song of the year
Overhyped comeback of the year
I wanna speak on this video.....MTV had this video in heavy rotation. This was big because the visual was so raw u would think they would have banned it but because PE was so big they had to bow down. Def Jam was looking real good promoting this. So when u look at the current state of Hip Hop it really is a head shaking moment because u have to stop and ask..."why did we give up such a pwoerful voice to convince the world that we were gangsters and drug dealers?"
Overhyped comeback of the year
I wanna speak on this video.....MTV had this video in heavy rotation. This was big because the visual was so raw u would think they would have banned it but because PE was so big they had to bow down. Def Jam was looking real good promoting this. So when u look at the current state of Hip Hop it really is a head shaking moment because u have to stop and ask..."why did we give up such a pwoerful voice to convince the world that we were gangsters and drug dealers?"
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
Back in elementary I used to sneak and listen to my brother's bootleg Too Short tapes, man we talkin 4th or 5th grade. Had no business listening to that fool talk about Nancy Reagan suckin his dikk. But from what I remember that shyt was pretty local, some kids at school knew about Too Short, we stiill talkin about elementary....
But junior high? Bruh, EVERYBODY knew about SWP up at the school and around the way. We talkin 13 and 14 year old girls knowin all the words to that shyt. The song was so funny at the time though. From the candyman rendition, to him flippin the pages, the raggamuffin breakdown. Listening to those AMG and Quik albums was like a twisted adolescent right of passage back then. Some of us was listening to some fukked up rap back then, but like you said, today its the norm mainstream wise.
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
Yeah, video was POWERFUL even out here in Cali. Our radio had the trumpets blarin outta speakers. The video that got banned was By The Time I Get, probably the the most powerful hip hop video of all time. That ENTIRE album was a big influence on us for real. Cats came to school with "shut em down" designed in the fades, protested the war, had organized walkouts. I mean it wasn't no full revolution but PE, Cube, KRS, Ice T, had our attention, shyt, had the nations attention.
Where we went wrong? shyt I can't call it bruh, complacency on our part? Weak education, the almighty dollar and greed, muthafukkaz in power always being one step ahead with a game that rigged from the jump?
That first AMG album had my world
was wondering why u didnt post Jiggable Pie.
Gone are the days of Hip Hop billboard ads. I remember the chick in the daisy dukes from the "jiggable Pie" single cover being plastered all over Harlem. I I bought the single and LP just off of that ad.
I always wanted to know who that mystery chick was and I still assume it was shorty in the insert of the "bytch Betta have My Money" Album because they have the same skin tone.
Now the chick who was unzipping AMG's pants on the LP album cover is still a mystery
FeloniousMonk
Dont mind me..Im a azzhole
I got ery one of these shyts on vinyl, too.1991 was the first year where I started building my own little tape collection, and really following this rap shyt closely. Picked up my first issue of The Source that had Slick Rick on the cover, and in depth interviews with him, NWA, DJ Quik, and Shabba Ranks…..copping albums when they dropped and just going all the way in. I was in 7th and 8th grade, and this year set the standard high for me. What a great year album wise. It's crazy to think all these came out in '91…
It's the best year and I've said it multiple times. No year produced more classic albums not even 1994 but since the sound of that era is so unheralded now it doesn't get its proper recognition
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
Yeah, Jiggable Pie is a given....Nice lil tame, lead off single that the girls all liked, it was cool
BUT....The cuts that had us all CLOWNIN on the bus on the way to school, in classs, around the way was....Vertical Joyride
bytch Betta Have My Money
I Wanna Be Yo Ho
The Booty Up
Yo Mama Told Me
Once A Dog
Likem Lo
Man too many to name
