Remember hearing that one on KMEL and being blown away
Best Rap Single of the 90s Tournament: 1992
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I voted for TROYJesus Christ!!!
What a list!!!
Kinda sucks how you can only pick one
Scenario got the middle school dance PUMPED
Das efx was huge too but I think voting for troy is the right thing to do.
Hard to not vote for Scenario
Or Punks Jump Up
I had to pick TROY but 1992 is damn near impossibleI voted for TROY
Hard to not vote for Scenario
Or Punks Jump Up
But the album actually materialized when... last two weeks of the year. So it was way more synonymous with the following year. People weren't just dead for 50 weeks listening to nothing else and wondering about The Chronic.
Its biggest impact was throughout '93, it was one of the only albums bumping everywhere for the better part of the 1st half.
Juicy was big right away in the Bay.
I don’t remember if Big Poppa was 94 or 95. But it was big too.
Now i agree that Big in 95 was
And it was a non album b side
I was a Puba stan in 92
That single got radio play out here too
Diamond D was only on the video shows.
I wonder what the list for 2017 will look like :prodigylol:
Here's the thing tho' Wacky...
You're saying "people like" Brand Nubian, Souls, etc... this was a different era, bruh. This was when you didn't have to be a 'name' to score a hot record. Even in '91, one of the biggest records was from a group on a semi-independent label with no huge hit records to their name- they dropped some shyt, it blew the fk up and is remembered to this day. "Mind Playing Tricks" wasn't some song that got a gang of play cause of who they were. Same for Cypress Hill- they didn't come out with hype, they dropped some shyt that was hard and people took to it. Even a joint like "Aint No Future In Ya Frontin" by Breed- this is just a dude from Flint, MI on a small label, shyt was slappin', it's a hit. So how come Brand Nubian or Souls or Jeru don't belong when, if you were there, them shyts were poppin'... does everyone on these things have to be artists who went platinum, even if MFs were bangin' these songs in real time? It's about the songs, not the artists.
Exactly. There's a lot of songs from 1992 that were more "Popular" than some of the list. Like "What Your Man Got To Do With Me" by Positive K, "Jump" by Kriss Kross, "Tennessee" by Arrested Development, shyt I can keep going. But I'm picking songs that as a culture, we played or I heard a lot during that time from the people around me, not just shyt that got the most radio play and had the biggest cross over appeal. To me it's not about what song was the biggest necessarily, yes it did have to have some nationwide recognition but it also had be shyt I really felt was dope and also stood the test of time. I feel like all these songs I picked are genuine classics. Not songs that were just hot when they dropped.Here's the thing tho' Wacky...
You're saying "people like" Brand Nubian, Souls, etc... this was a different era, bruh. This was when you didn't have to be a 'name' to score a hot record. Even in '91, one of the biggest records was from a group on a semi-independent label with no huge hit records to their name- they dropped some shyt, it blew the fk up and is remembered to this day. "Mind Playing Tricks" wasn't some song that got a gang of play cause of who they were. Same for Cypress Hill- they didn't come out with hype, they dropped some shyt that was hard and people took to it. Even a joint like "Aint No Future In Ya Frontin" by Breed- this is just a dude from Flint, MI on a small label, shyt was slappin', it's a hit. So how come Brand Nubian or Souls or Jeru don't belong when, if you were there, them shyts were poppin'... does everyone on these things have to be artists who went platinum, even if MFs were bangin' these songs in real time? It's about the songs, not the artists.
Flex by Mad Cobra probably got played the most in my hood because I'm from Flatbush and we were surrounded by west indians
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