up all night with my finger on the pause button. same shyt with video's
90's Rap misconceptions?
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had to do a full transplant when a tape I had got crushed
I was always trying to come up on batteries and blank tapes
used to rewind tapes with a pencil to save batteries
The_Hillsta
Neva missin a beat
Nas I Am double album talk was not really a thing in the same way it is discussed on here.
Like at the time of release there was very little discussion or disapoinment with I Am song selection. It got 4.5 mics, a half a mic a way from a 5 Mic rating in The Source.
Like at the time of release there was very little discussion or disapoinment with I Am song selection. It got 4.5 mics, a half a mic a way from a 5 Mic rating in The Source.
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So when did illmatic start to get the classic mentions?
Early 90s Rappers dressed to look “gangsta” but wasn’t really gangstaz. They took the real gangsta street look and exploited it for money. They where more in the line of actors and enjoyed being the very stereotypical mad ni66a on tv. About 99.5 % of rappers from the 90s is really Studio gamgstaz.
edit: It was the behind the scenes guys that you should have been afraid of!
edit: It was the behind the scenes guys that you should have been afraid of!
BulletProof
Just a B@stard Living in a Suit
Since it first came out when it was the first album to get five mics in the Source when that meant something.
And only to be reinforced when Biggie won rap album of the year to respond that belongs to Nas.
- People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm – A Tribe Called Quest
- Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em – Eric B. & Rakim
- AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted – Ice Cube
- One for All – Brand Nubian
- De La Soul Is Dead – De La Soul
- The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest
^^^ all got 5 mics before Illmatic.
It's so interesting how narratives change throughout the years. Great thread.
I would say the amount of street nikkas/studio gangstas in rap has always been the same. The only difference is, the real street nikkas that are rappers nowadays actually have more of a voice/name recognition because of social media, whereas back in the day the street nikkas who rapped rarely made it past their block.
Also another big difference is there were real life gangsters who didn't really rap about gangster shyt like Little Shawn for example. If you go listen to old DMX records from 1991-1993 he never talks about street shyt like that, and that's during the time he was in and out of prison all the time. A lot of real gangsters liked to keep it separate. Some was rapping what they was really doing though like M.O.P.
BulletProof
Just a B@stard Living in a Suit
When it first came out.
BulletProof
Just a B@stard Living in a Suit
DaveyDave
Superstar
nope, those all got 5 mics in The Source, first time around. They used “broken records” before they had the mics. And before that they just have it a number
they'll never know
