2001-2004 Was Such A fukkin Golden Age

[MartyMcFly]

Another thing is people didnt have to say "this is a new golden era" or "were about to enter another golden era" or label artists with 2 albums out that arent even classic "new legends"... people just made good music and everything happened naturally

It's funny how stuff works isn't it? Things can't happen organically anymore. Dudes weren't out saying they're going to drop classics, they just dropped it and let the music speak for themselves. The one album from that era that I remember being a big deal and ended up being a disappointment, for me anyway, was Kiss the game goodbye. I remember my boys were hype for it and the whole school was but I was the one dude on the fence saying I don't know man, and then when it came out...well, the rest is infamous history.

 

[Ziggiy]

First @Ziggiy post that disappointed me golden compared to what

Golden compared to what came after....

 

[Never Broke Again]

Early 2000's

pop radio basically being urban radio

 

[BruhMayne]

Color Changin Click couldnt lose

 

[MINT]

a disaster

 

[LionofJudah]

Color Changin Click couldnt lose

The first Color Changin' Click album I heard was that Starvin Marvin one night when me and my boy was smoking out. That first freestyle

 

[Malik]

Always felt this way. I was 13-17 from '01-'05 so I came up on this era and I'll always feel nostalgic towards it The first albums I ever purchased were Come Home with Me, The Blueprint and Lil Zane (I was 13 man ) Anyway....Come Home with Me, I played that sh*t so much I felt like I was in Harlem. That album really was Cam at his peak. The Blueprint made me a rabid Hov stan. Cleaning up my brother's old room, I found his Street is Watching dvd (some pornos too ) and I was fukkin sold on that nikka. That nikka Jay was tooooo nice, I thought. First time I heard that Dead Presidents beat If the 90s was the golden era, the early 2000s was the silver era. We still had Jigga, Nas, DMX. Cam, Dipset, Beanie and State Prop. Scarface had a good year in 02. Jadakiss and the Lox. Kanye came out in 2004. 50 Cent in 2003. Banks, Buck in 04, Game in 05. Wayne was heating up. Jim Jones came outta nowhere and dropped a couple joints. I'm forgetting alot but, I can't name everyone. Rap was straight from 2001 to 2005. From late 2005 to 2009, I don't know what happened

 

[Brady-Carter]

You forgot..

 

[Wacky D]

yall gotta be f*ckin kiddin me with this thread.

I liked this era a lot but theres nothing golden age about it. at all.
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[Kilgore Trout]

 

[Change]

I guess it depends on your age. Outside of the Blueprint all of those are when the artist fell off imo and started becoming trash.

 

[Wacky D]

Naw man... It was actually a Silver Age....


There are only two golden eras... '87-'90 and '93-'96

3.

you forgetting the early '80s.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

04 is literally the last great music year/capstone to the 90's era greatness to me. I can't count how many albums I had in rotation that year, plus some great r&b dropped too. Like I saw the drop off vividly in 05 and definitely by '06, the type of fukkery that was coming out in 05-08 literally had me

Edit: those years were also the last time regional sounds were big and people sounded like where they were from - bay had our shyt, Houston, ny still had a sound, the south had their sound. Then you had the neptunes doing their thing, kanye, just, track masterz, alchemist, dre, missy...definitely the final years really good mass music IMO (there's a lot of good "Internet" shyt now, but nothing compared to 89-04)

 

[Wacky D]

2004 was half-ass.

I feel sorry for anybody that didn't have real access to mixtapes in the mid-2000s. cuz that's what kept everything together while the mainstream was going to chit.

 

[Mandizi]

Amongst all the BS that was startin to drop in '06, that year still fed me well with the following mainstream releases:

Food and Liquor
HHID
King
The Doctor's Advocate
Fishscale
Morefish
The Big Bang
4:21 The Day After
Some songs off Kingdom Come
The Blue Carpet Treatment