CD's basically helped every rap artist go gold and platinum.

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

With cassette tapes it was easy to bootleg shyt. I was rocking Illmatic a month before it dropped. People used to record songs off the radio. It was simply easier to dub a tape rather than buy it.

When CD's dropped you got that sound and clarity that tapes didn't have and once CD's became the standard people started buying CD's with more regularity. People didn't have the equipment to burn CD's yet so they were harder to burn.

That's why you had artists making double albums like it was nothing. They knew people were going to cop.

It felt good seeing artists like The Roots and Gang Starr finally go gold.

 

[boskey]

On point. Redman, De La Soul, Eric Sermon, Pharoah Monch, MOP, Styles P...suddenly EVERYBODY had a plaque in the late 90s/early 2000s

If you flopped in those days you mustve fukked up

 

[Cheech&Chong]

music in the 90s was the greatest thing ever

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

With cassette tapes it was easy to bootleg shyt. I was rocking Illmatic a month before it dropped. People used to record songs off the radio. It was simply easier to dub a tape rather than buy it.

When CD's dropped you got that sound and clarity that tapes didn't have and once CD's became the standard people started buying CD's with more regularity. People didn't have the equipment to burn CD's yet so they were harder to burn.

That's why you had artists making double albums like it was nothing. They knew people were going to cop.

It felt good seeing artists like The Roots and Gang Starr finally go gold.

Tapes still sounded better than CD and still do but the sound quality deteriorates drastically with play and that is why it took a while for cd's to catch on. People used to call CDs flat sounding including myself but I also witnessed the transition to digital files and those early formats and bitrates made for terrible listening.

As a music lover if you are into fidelity and dynamics you will never hear better sound than analogue. That first playthru a tape is godly, bass hits so right... Same with records.

Tapes used to break down do fast though damn. But having to buy music made you appreciate it. Once them CD burners came thru and file sharing it was over. Eitherway record labels ate the most and lost the most from the transition. Artists were still getting jerked even with plat plaques...