who said that?
2003 = The Last Memorable Year For Urban Music
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who said that?
I mean,the likes of Nas, Jada, Ghostface, Banks, Camron, Jim Jones, Method Man, Mobb Deep, and others made their final stand before the south took over it 100%
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
O3 was Aight.
The word is nostalgic.
The word is nostalgic.
So according to this thread, the last memorable year for urban music = the last year new york hip hop was relevant?
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
No classics in 02?
The Fix is better than anything that released in 03.
02 got the 5 mic album in the Fix
The 2nd best selling album in hip hop history in the Eminem Show worldwide
You got 2 very superb Nas albums
And 03 had a lot of great underground releases "Cage, blackalicoius, Jurassic 5,
151_Pr00f
All Star
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yea but i dont think the video dropped until '03.
man, if freeway wouldve dropped in october like he was supposed to, before 50-mania.........
before they axed roctober and went with hovember instead.
good year but not great.
i liked 2005 but it wasnt a memorable year. for every memorable thing that came out of it, there was some super-wack chit that was made to be un-avoidable. and everything in between was pretty forgettable. stuff that was good but would be answers to a trivia question in a legitimately memorable year.
the same could be said about '04, '06 and to a lesser extent '07. then after that, its a wrap for me.
the massacre was trash
no memorable tracks came out of the 50/game beef. just a bunch of stunts that may or may not have all been authentic, but they came off as some wrestling chit either way.
late registration was hot, but if thats one of the first albums you reminisce over, then its a weak year. same with documentary.
jeezy takeover was great tho. but as for the album, it falls in the same category with those kanye & game albums.
thats not the last year new york was "relevant".
and i dont care regardless. im from philly just like you. lol.
the fix wasnt no dam classic.
that was more of an un-official lifetime achievement award. scarface was f*ckin with the source heavy at the time, btw.
nobody cares about sales dog.
jurassic 5 and all that type chit was wack.
'96 was one of the best years, wouldnt you say?
instead of "starting to dip", i think you mean to say that thats when all the principles were becoming extinct, which lead to the falloff.
thats a better way of putting it, imo.
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TM101 was great for its time, but its not a real classic.
you gotta remember that this was when the bar was being lowered in the mainstream.
tm101 wouldnt be anywhere near as big as it was if it dropped during a great time period.
Malik
Superstar
Stretch it to 2004 and I agree.
By 2005 it was on life support, dead by 2006, decomposed and stinking the rest of the decade.
By 2005 it was on life support, dead by 2006, decomposed and stinking the rest of the decade.
2004 had way too much trash going on.
and the best albums were dropoffs in quality in comparison to pretty much every previous year.
Malik
Superstar
2004 seemed pretty straight to me.
You had the Black Album, College Dropout, Street's Disciple, Purple Haze, The Carter, Urban Legend, Hunger for More, Straight Outta Cashville, Beg for Mercy, On My Way to Church. Twista came back hard that year. On the R&B side, Usher dropped Confessions. Alicia Keys and John Legend. IMO rap didn't take a nosedive until the ringtone rappers like D4L and Dem Franchise Boys came through and that was 2005, 2006.
some of those albums were weak.
black album was '03.
correct me if im wrong, but snap rap did in fact debut in '04.
i agree that the year was straight, but rap used to be way more than str8. the fact that the majority of those albums were the 1st joints that you thought of, just goes to show that the bar was lowered that year.