Can you be a rap fan if you don't enjoy 90s hip-hop?

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

1991...

 

[Apex]

I'm taking about the 80s though. Didn't you say you don't like hip hop before 92?

Never really gave it a shot. When you look up classic hip-hop albums, the oldest one is usually The Chronic in 1992.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

My thing is, 90's hip-hop is a broad ass category. I get that when most people say it, they usually mean like 94-98 east coast shyt, or 92-96 west coast shyt, but even then, there are so many sub-categories and sub-genres.

I'm gonna always be biased, but if nothing from that entire decade (probably the best decade ever for hip-hop) appeals to you whatsoever, then I don't know what to say.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

What "melodic" means exactly to you?
Jay is not singing for example, he's rapping you still call him melodic
besides that there's 2Pac, Snoop, Dre or Emiem, all of them were huge and none of them sang like Drake or Ye

Exactly.

If Dead Presidents isn't melodic than I don't know what is. And on the song it samples, Nas has Pete Rock singing on the hook...

 

[mobbinfms]

Never really gave it a shot. When you look up classic hip-hop albums, the oldest one is usually The Chronic in 1992.

Do yourself a favor and listen to as many of these albums as you can find.

Also, do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with these 100 songs if you aren't already.

 

[tuckgod]

Also, I don't consider all this sing rapping to even be hip hop. This is something different and should have its own genre.

 

[Illuminatos]

I used to listen to some 90s hip-hop growing up but don't bump it as much these days. What ya'll fail to realize though is that there's several generations of black kids growing up that don't give a fukk about 90s hip-hop music. 80s and before? Forget about it.

Of course people know the popular songs back in the day (Juicy, California Love) but most around my age and younger don't give a fukk about that shyt.

Ya'll nikkas on this site aren't representative of the average hip-hop fan. I remember in high school (08-12) I wouldn't even bump 90s hip-hop around my homeboys cause they used to call that shyt dusty.

There was this clown in high school that was on that "real hip-hop" shyt and used to try to force everyone to listen to his 90 Wu-Tang shyt talking about "this is that real shyt." No one could stand dude cause he was on that pretentious shyt.

Most kids are gonna be more in tune with the shyt that is more contemporary with the time they grew up with. Get out of here with that not liking 90s hip-hop means you're not a real fan bullshyt.

 

[DaveyDave]

Never really gave it a shot. When you look up classic hip-hop albums, the oldest one is usually The Chronic in 1992.

you're saying there are no classics before The Chronic?

just to name a few

 

[mobbinfms]

I used to listen to some 90s hip-hop growing up but don't bump it as much these days. What ya'll fail to realize though is that there's several generations of black kids growing up that don't give a fukk about 90s hip-hop music. 80s and before? Forget about it.

Of course people know the popular songs back in the day (Juicy, California Love) but most around my age and younger don't give a fukk about that shyt.

Ya'll nikkas on this site aren't representative of the average hip-hop fan. I remember in high school (08-12) I wouldn't even bump 90s hip-hop around my homeboys cause they used to call that shyt dusty.

There was this clown in high school that was on that "real hip-hop" shyt and used to try to force everyone to listen to his 90 Wu-Tang shyt talking about "this is that real shyt." No one could stand dude cause he was on that pretentious shyt.

Most kids are gonna be more in tune with the shyt that is more contemporary with the time they grew up with. Get out of here with that not liking 90s hip-hop means you're not a real fan bullshyt.

All of this is fine. But you have to understand why people like me (who started high school in 94) aren't going to take your opinions about what's a classic or whose the best emcees seriously. You don't have the knowledge base that us brehs have
Also, so you're 22? When I was that age I was already going back and checking out albums before my time like Long Live The Kane, It Only Takes a Nation, Criminal Minded, Paid in Full, etc. And I was actually going to the record store and paying money for them
They are at your fingertips.
At some point, if you are truly serious about this shyt, you'll do the same too

 

[Unknown Poster]

No you can't

THIS.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

If you grew up with young black parents during the 90s, you heard all the oldies plus the modern shyt.

I never realized that a lot of guys probably had to discover Hip Hop on their own. Slick Rick to Eazy E to Outkast was banging in my house when i came home from school

 

[mbewane]

Like I said in some other thread years ago, I think this comes from at least two things :

- Sampling being more less dead : in the 90s, when you were listen to "current" HH (Nas, Jay, Biggie, Wu, Dre, damn near everyone) you were ALSO listening to old stuff. So your ears were already used to it, whether you wanted them to be or not. Now some stopped there, others (like myself) went digging for those sampled tracks which opened up even more decades of dope music. Personnally, I left the US when I was 8 so I basically discovered Soul, Jazz, old school rnb thanks to HH. ON TOP of older HH albums obviously. Which is amazing when you really think about it : HH opened decades of AA music to me.

- The divide between this young generation and the former ones is waaaaay bigger imo than what it was. I think up until the 00s older people and younger people more or less listened to the same stuff. I know when I was growing up in the 90s, me and my friends (anywhere from 13 to 20 years old) were listening to the same stuff as the older brehs (anywhere from 20 to 35) were. Don't really feel it's the same thing now tbh, but I could be wrong.

Anyway like others said I guess anyone saying this is not really a fan. I would see them as someone who reads two books a year and say "I love litterature". No you don't, you like reading something when you're bored. If you love litterature, then you're gonna be digging up classics, reading all kinds of different stuff from all eras. Doesn't mean you're gonna like everything you read, but you will give that effort because what you like NOW was built on that history. If you love HH you're gonna spend hours on youtube (so easy now too) or on whosampled or whatever digging up obscure side B remix instrumentals.

And yeah, 90s HH is SO diverse (which is what makes it an amazing era) that is you don't find ANYTHING you don't like tbh I think it's either laziness or hating

 

[patscorpio]

If you love HH you're gonna spend hours on youtube (so easy now too) or on whosampled or whatever digging up obscure side B remix instrumentals.

this is what i do..hell sometimes i contribute to whosampled every now and then

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

What "melodic" means exactly to you?
Jay is not singing for example, he's rapping you still call him melodic
besides that there's 2Pac, Snoop, Dre or Emiem, all of them were huge and none of them sang like Drake or Ye

Snoop and Eminem wasn't melodic with the hooks?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I'm listening to the "gold school" playlist on Spotify and thought of this thread. In less than 40 minutes:

Spottieottiedopalicious
Wanna be a baller
Can I kick it
Jigga what
Ambitionz Az a ridah
Gimme the loot
Tootsie roll
Nann nikka
Shook ones
Five on it
You know how we do it

What the fukk is op talking about