Educate a late stage Millennial on why the "Shiny Suit Era" was the beginning of the end for rap

[Street Knowledge]

This isn’t true at all

Carl Thomas, Faith, 112, Black Rob & Shyne kept it going till like 2000

Half the people you named was RnB. Blac rob and shyne were like C list artists they got surpassed by so many rappers in NYC after running the city

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Half the people you named was RnB. Blac rob and shyne were like C list artists they got surpassed by so many rappers in NYC after running the city

I mean…was nikkax shyt in heavy rotation or not?

 

[Street Knowledge]

They got six years in post 97.

By 2003, everyone wanted to move south, numb their brains of 16 bar verses, and dance like hoes to attract hoes

Nah, they was lapped in nyc hip hop by the end of 98

 

[UnQuantized]

Stakes Is High was made in 1996. The Roots What We Do was 1995 and Diddy was offended by the video. So the concern about the direction of the genre was already present in the midst of the golden age.

 

[Street Knowledge]

I mean…was nikkax shyt in heavy rotation or not?

Compare to whom tho, DMX? Jay Z? Ja?

They was the hottest rap label world in 97 and wasn’t top 3 in their city by 2000