90's Rap misconceptions?

[FreshAIG]

Whole lotta recording shyt off the radio.

Fred.

Man I remember standing by the radio hoping they play the song I'm looking for to record it.

 

[The_Hillsta]

Random thoughts reading the thread:

1. The 2nd DAS EFX album was dope as fukk. After that, aside from a random song here and there I lost track of them.

Man I wore that tape out. Das Efx was killin it, and their crew/production crew Solid Scheme. What in the fukk ever happened to them cats?

I used to sit on the bus bumpin Bakneffek...like my crew is back again....people.....people.....people....people....

Bakneffek how was that....

Our local radio station would play the shyt outta Freakit.

Saw that recent interview wit Books n Dray. They said they shot EPMD the Dead Serious tape finished with all the beats. None of them shyts was E double.

 

[The_Hillsta]

Whole lotta recording shyt off the radio.

Fred.

Literally broke the play/record button off. Crazy glued that bytch back on like it was nothin. Real talk.

 

[gluvnast]

The biggest misconception of 90's hip hop is the internet myth of GANGSTA RAP was created from a secret meeting among label executives and the government to promote the music to build more prisons.

The truth of the matter is most MAJOR LABELS resisted the growing movement of gangsta rap. There were even Congressional hearings and an anti-movement spearheaded by C. Doloros Tucker and Dionne Warwick to end hip hop because of their views of Gangsta Rap. Warner Brothers in particular ended their deal with Ice-T over the song Cop Killer. Interscope lost their own distribution deal over the fear of Tha Dogg Pound debut album. For a whole DECADE there were federal investigations on J. Prince and Rap-A-Lot.

The music industry and the government did NOT want so-called Gangsta Rap to succeed because of fear it has a huge influenced to young white American. They thought it was poisoning. The only reason why it triumphed despite it all is the reason why America capitalism triumphs in general. Because controversy, sex, drugs and violence always SELLS.

 

[BK360NATL]

Random thoughts reading the thread:

1. The 2nd DAS EFX album was dope as fukk. After that, aside from a random song here and there I lost track of them.

2. Mobb Deep blew up off the strength of "Shook Ones II". I'm talking on a street level. If the labels or radio or whatever decided to give them a chance because of Nas or them being from the same hood ok cool but that had zero bearing on people checking for them on a street level. I seen their video on BET, went to school the next day asking people if they'd heard of the group. And then copped the single like 2 weeks later. Passed it around. That's how Mobb Deep blew up.

Fred.

Never got into the 2nd album. They really got lost in the sauce when the EPMD split, which was right around the time after that 2nd album. They and K-Solo went with Parrish. Redman, Keith Murray and Hurricane G went with Erick.

I love Mobb Deep's music and all, but.....Prodigy exaggerated a lot. Playboy channel for Hit It From the Back video??? I remember it getting some play on Video Music Box back then, but it wasn't that popular nor rated R, much less rated X. Super dupa local at that. No record label was co-signing an x-rated/r-rated video by a couple of 17 yr olds in 1993. Tall tales.....

If I recall the story correctly, it wasn't until Q-Tip really took a liking to them and helped them restructure their rhymes and production, and Primo schooled Havoc on his production skills, that the Mobb Deep we now know came to be. I can't speak on the Nas connect, but I'm guessing at some point in QB, Nas, Havoc and his brother connected, and Prodigy tagged along. Shook Ones Pt 2 is when they came out of nowhere and made major noise, and we all took note. But nooooooobody was checking for Poetical Prophets, if we're keeping it a buck in this thread.

 

[BK360NATL]

Man I remember standing by the radio hoping they play the song I'm looking for to record it.

So many late nights up late waiting on the DNA-Hank Love show at 2am on Sunday mornings, then Awesome Two (Special K & Teddy Ted) at 4 am in the morning to play that underground ish on 105.9. They broke Ultramagnetic MCs (Funky), Beastie Boys (Hold It Now, Hit it and Paul Revere were hot back then, and people didn't know they were white at the time. Before the album came out....), Public Enemy (Rebel Without A Pause debuted and was played like 4-5 times in a row, people kept requesting it..)....

These kids don't know the struggle of being technologically challenged back in the day.....but being creative with the tape pops and splices. It was all so simple back then....

 

[BK360NATL]

For those not a around then, that 12 tapes for a penny is no exaggeration btw

Except for when you forget to call and cancel and end up with Taylor Dayne's 3rd album for $19.99....

 

[MisterMajesty]

I got nothing to add cus I'm 26 going 27, but man thsi is a great thread. Thank you for the information brehs

 

[The_Hillsta]

Surgical tryna fix those tapes

@BK360NATL

 

[FreshAIG]

Except for when you forget to call and cancel and end up with Taylor Dayne's 3rd album for $19.99....

 

[Mike the Executioner]

This is a big one. KRS was calling Run DMC "old school" & "played out" in 1988.

A year after that, Slick Rick said they weren't even top five and he's not even thinking about them. That was the same year they performed at WrestleMania, appeared on the Ghostbusters II soundtrack, and put out "Pause."

DMC himself said from 1989 to 1993 (when they came out with Down with the King), the group wasn't on anybody's radar. They were has-beens a year after going platinum.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

When them Columbia House CDs came towards the mid-late 90s it was a game changer lmao. nikkas was coping 12 CDs for like 1 penny or some crazy shyt like that.

Dude, I scammed the hell out of Columbia House, G

I used to use a fake name and order all kinds of CD's.

I actually got into rock music that ways because I had to pick some random ass albums just so I could get the ones I wanted, so I ended up with Nirvana's "Nevermind" and never looked back

Whole lotta recording shyt off the radio.

Fred.

I'm right there with ya

I still got like 20 tapes of shyt I recorded off the radio.

The biggest misconception of 90's hip hop is the internet myth of GANGSTA RAP was created from a secret meeting among label executives and the government to promote the music to build more prisons.

The truth of the matter is most MAJOR LABELS resisted the growing movement of gangsta rap. There were even Congressional hearings and an anti-movement spearheaded by C. Doloros Tucker and Dionne Warwick to end hip hop because of their views of Gangsta Rap. Warner Brothers in particular ended their deal with Ice-T over the song Cop Killer. Interscope lost their own distribution deal over the fear of Tha Dogg Pound debut album. For a whole DECADE there were federal investigations on J. Prince and Rap-A-Lot.

The music industry and the government did NOT want so-called Gangsta Rap to succeed because of fear it has a huge influenced to young white American. They thought it was poisoning. The only reason why it triumphed despite it all is the reason why America capitalism triumphs in general. Because controversy, sex, drugs and violence always SELLS.

Dude, you just killed the talking points of like 1/2 of TLR with their

"The White MAN invented GANGSTA rap in 1983 in a meeting with CIA, right after they decided to drop crack in the BLACK community"

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Word.

 

[DaveyDave]

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For those not a around then, that 12 tapes for a penny is no exaggeration btw

I wish they had that shyt down here. I used to see those ads in The Source, circling all the albums I wanted to get.

 

[god shamgod]

Illmatic was just another album in ‘94 this hip hop bible/top 5 album bullshyt that applies now didn’t happen in real time

I was a junior in high school when it dropped I remember vividly , ready to die,funkdafied,the diary and creepin on tha come up had way more hype