25 years ago, the most prophetic hip-hop album was released

[Lucky_Lefty]

The Bizness, Its So Easy, Stakes is High

Weren’t those the singles? I don’t think The Bizness was but I know the other two def were

 

[mobbinfms]

Weren’t those the singles? I don’t think The Bizness was but I know the other two def were

The bizness was the b-side to its so easy I believe. I have the vinyl. It was all over the place when the abum dropped.

 

[Greenhornet]

The bad thing about DelaSoul which is one of my favorite groups of all time easily

is the fact that the convo surrounding them always ends up in elitist hipster garbage and not just how good the music was
none of the "internet" talking points on this album were spoken about at the time or years after. This album just is what it is, just like all the other albums afterward.
people have been doing the whole thing surrounding this album before and after. Its not like they stood in one place after this album either like people try to project
This album just what what it was, nothing more nothing less.

you cant say this album was a turning point when it also mimicked the same thing it was going against. That's just my opinion on this and always has been.
This was the year following direct disses etc Its basically a grown man diss album, reprimanding all topics at once. That's nothing different than All Eyez On Me etc
all of them albums listed, are people saying normal hiphop shyt like "my shyt is better, your shyt is trash" This album just said "you are trash because you follow trends and are phony"
thats still the same thing as Jay-z or Ice-T saying "you dont own your shyt, I'm actually the ultimate... your cashmere aint my quality"
I dont see why average fans tried to loophole this into some hipster shyt, they always do that with DeLa and everytime they tell you... they arent peaceful they fight etc. Cats always try to label DeLa as some fantasy soft underground pillar and they arent... they are just a solid legendary group... Every album just is what it is and they tell you exactly how they feel at that moment. All of the shyt they said on this album could directly apply to 1992 or whatever. People selling out will always be a great concept in any medium of life. Its also not like DeLa didnt try to get airplay and make hits, they had a bunch on albums following this
People need to stop trying to box DeLaSoul into one corner it looks foolish

 

[Damnshow]

That's a good collection of albums other than a few mentions. My point is 96 was the beginning of a downfall. You compare that year to previous years and you'll see the quality was starting to drop.

It's the same year we also got Doggfather garbage, the absolutely atrocity of a Dre presents the Aftermath the fake rasta Fugees joint, Cube dumbing down to the cheap Westside Connection gang banging bullshyt, etc.

 

[Damnshow]

This album is overrated to hell and back outside of the title track they just kept going on and on

Like someone else said if they just focused on making dope shyt rather than whining for a whole damn album

De La had kinda fallen off which made them complaining about nikkas seem weak

The whole underground backpacker movement of the late 90s was inspired by this idea of "make hip-hop great again"
rather than actually making great Hip-Hop shyt was lame

They were always pretentious mfs but they would back it up with a classic album....not this time

Then after this they ditched Prince Paul and fully put they heads up they own asses for good

Whaaaat?

That is not true at all. Underground backpacker movement of the late 90s got boosted by talentless garbage like EL-P and other internet geeks who can't make a coherent instrumental nor can they rap on beat, but they used internet to spew their fake reviews and hate on everything that's popular. De La Soul is real Hip Hop, if anything the backpacker movement got massively inspired by the musical garbage that is called "funcrusher plus"

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

That's a good collection of albums other than a few mentions. My point is 96 was the beginning of a downfall. You compare that year to previous years and you'll see the quality was starting to drop.

It's the same year we also got Doggfather garbage, the absolutely atrocity of a Dre presents the Aftermath the fake rasta Fugees joint, Cube dumbing down to the cheap Westside Connection gang banging bullshyt, etc.

I can’t even go there with you but let me say this. 96 is the best produced year in Hip Hop history

 

[Mike the Executioner]

 

[Damnshow]

I can’t even go there with you but let me say this. 96 is the best produced year in Hip Hop history

fukk them fugees real talk. And LL destroyed Clef with one song



Wyclef is so bad he destroyed a promising rappers career couple years later with some of the worst uninspiring beats I have ever heard

I don't see what's so good about Bow Down. It was Cube selling out making cheap gangbangin tracks again after dropping classic albums like Death Certificate. Bow Down is the very definition of the underwhelming

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

fukk them fugees real talk. And LL destroyed Clef with one song



Wyclef is so bad he destroyed a promising rappers career couple years later with some of the worst uninspiring beats I have ever heard

I don't see what's so good about Bow Down. It was Cube selling out making cheap gangbangin tracks again after dropping classic albums like Death Certificate. Bow Down is the very definition of the underwhelming

This song in the whip will make you feel like the hardest nikka on Earth

 

[mobbinfms]

That's a good collection of albums other than a few mentions. My point is 96 was the beginning of a downfall. You compare that year to previous years and you'll see the quality was starting to drop.

It's the same year we also got Doggfather garbage, the absolutely atrocity of a Dre presents the Aftermath the fake rasta Fugees joint, Cube dumbing down to the cheap Westside Connection gang banging bullshyt, etc.

I hear you. I actually think of 96 as the last, by and large pure year. Compare it to 97. You could also argue 96 was the peak of lyricism. I made a thread about it.
And I loved the Westside Connection album.

 

[mobbinfms]

Whaaaat?

That is not true at all. Underground backpacker movement of the late 90s got boosted by talentless garbage like EL-P and other internet geeks who can't make a coherent instrumental nor can they rap on beat, but they used internet to spew their fake reviews and hate on everything that's popular. De La Soul is real Hip Hop, if anything the backpacker movement got massively inspired by the musical garbage that is called "funcrusher plus"

Fax. El-P and those wack ass sitars, pots and pans ass beats

 

[semicko82]

That's a good collection of albums other than a few mentions. My point is 96 was the beginning of a downfall. You compare that year to previous years and you'll see the quality was starting to drop.

It's the same year we also got Doggfather garbage, the absolutely atrocity of a Dre presents the Aftermath the fake rasta Fugees joint, Cube dumbing down to the cheap Westside Connection gang banging bullshyt, etc.

I don’t agree with you, but I can definitely understand your perspective
From a 2021 viewpoint ‘96 is a great year, but coming off 93, 94, 95 I can see why 96 is an underwhelming year

 

[mobbinfms]

I can’t even go there with you but let me say this. 96 is the best produced year in Hip Hop history

Nah. 96 was a tad too glossy.

 

[mobbinfms]

I don’t agree with you, but I can definitely understand your perspective
From a 2021 viewpoint ‘96 is a great year, but coming off 93, 94, 95 I can see why 96 is an underwhelming year

It felt pretty amazing in real time to me. It was the year I started buying everything
Went from 10-12 albums a year to 1-2 a week

 

[Damnshow]

Fax. El-P and those wack ass sitars, pots and pans ass beats

Atrocious, truly atrocious music.