94-96 was the peak time period for hip hop. Every region had their Titans: Pac, Snoop, Dre in the West, Biggie, Jay-z, Nas in the East, and OUTkast, Scarface, and Jermaine Dupri (in terms of production) in the South. Then you had Grunge music still going strong and Pop Music.
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, I was in college during the mid-late 90's. I was sitting in computer labs at 2AM listening to Tical, Ready to Die, Me Against the World, Safe+Sound, The Infamous, etc. Man, we had it soo good
Pac caused the most ruckus during 95-96 with the Bad Boy beef(which morphed into a East vs West beef), AEOM, dropping DK7DT but I wouldn't say he was the most successful commercially.
Fugees had more crossover appeal and back in the 80's and early 90's everybody bought and listened to all kinds of music (I think that led to better hip hop production/sampling). My cousins were gangsta as fukk and they had a Nirvana tape
. Alanis Morrissette, Green Day, Sound Garden, Smashin Pumpkins, Jewel etc were all putting up monster sales numbers.
We are never going to see the music industry as successful as it used to be all the way up until 2000. Torrenting has come through and crushed the buildings. Without a profit motive many record companies folded or were bought out, the record stores all closed, and without any reason to make new music it seams like we only got like 5 big stars for the past 10 yrs and nothing but trap beats b/c producers don't have money for sample clearances.
There's only one person who's putting up sales numbers like real stars did in the 90's and that's Taylor Swift
I'm
, I was in college during the mid-late 90's. I was sitting in computer labs at 2AM listening to Tical, Ready to Die, Me Against the World, Safe+Sound, The Infamous, etc. Man, we had it soo goodPac caused the most ruckus during 95-96 with the Bad Boy beef(which morphed into a East vs West beef), AEOM, dropping DK7DT but I wouldn't say he was the most successful commercially.
Fugees had more crossover appeal and back in the 80's and early 90's everybody bought and listened to all kinds of music (I think that led to better hip hop production/sampling). My cousins were gangsta as fukk and they had a Nirvana tape
. Alanis Morrissette, Green Day, Sound Garden, Smashin Pumpkins, Jewel etc were all putting up monster sales numbers.We are never going to see the music industry as successful as it used to be all the way up until 2000. Torrenting has come through and crushed the buildings. Without a profit motive many record companies folded or were bought out, the record stores all closed, and without any reason to make new music it seams like we only got like 5 big stars for the past 10 yrs and nothing but trap beats b/c producers don't have money for sample clearances.
There's only one person who's putting up sales numbers like real stars did in the 90's and that's Taylor Swift
Damn I didn't remember them being popular that early, my bad.
