Fall & winter 98 had a nygga really struggling as to what to buy at the record store

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood


These kind of choices had a nikka confused at tower, using them "sample" stands to hear snippets


Kids still struggle like this on itunes?

 

[4:21 The Day After]

the 90s for the win. i kind of miss buying cds at records stores, because it was more exciting. but i only do itunes these days.

 

[h2o_proof]

Man hell yeah, you bringing back memories when a nikka used to buy CDs. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there was a 'super tuesday' in November of '98 that broke all kinds of records. There was a Tuesday that Whitney, Mariah, Garth, Celine, Jewel and R. Kelly all dropped and like a Les Misrables soundtrack or something.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

96 was hard but my bigger bro helped me out..he bought every dope cd out..

 

[re'up]

I could never listen to those sample booth, it would never work for the album. I used to hit up Wherehouse used section, Nas 'It Was Written', The Lox first joint, all kinds of albums, when I was a little 15 year old and I would scrape up like $20, that's where I wanted to go.

I still buy cds in store sometimes, but it's not the same anymore. What I remember the most is putting together change and shyt to buy Mase 'Harlem World', I loved that album, my Mom or Dad had to drive me to the store and shyt. I remember staring at the 'Belly' ost or a new copy of 'Hard Knock Life Vol. 2', (mine got so much play it was almost unlistenable) both like 18.99 a piece or something. I copped 50 Cent 'Power of The Dollar' there too, in 2000, right after he got shot. Ahh man, this is too much sometimes.

 

[ROBEEZYKILLA]

I could never listen to those sample booth, it would never work for the album. I used to hit up Wherehouse used section, Nas 'It Was Written', The Lox first joint, all kinds of albums, when I was a little 15 year old and I would scrape up like $20, that's where I wanted to go.

I still buy cds in store sometimes, but it's not the same anymore. What I remember the most is putting together change and shyt to buy Mase 'Harlem World', I loved that album, my Mom or Dad had to drive me to the store and shyt. I remember staring at the 'Belly' ost or a new copy of 'Hard Knock Life Vol. 2', (mine got so much play it was almost unlistenable) both like 18.99 a piece or something. I copped 50 Cent 'Power of The Dollar' there too, in 2000, right after he got shot. Ahh man, this is too much sometimes.

i copped so many classics from that section when i was a youngin myself

nerd's debut album prodigy's hnic stillmatic, blueprint etc

 

[beenz]

man I was broke as shyt in college back then. luckily, my roommate worked at the local record store and he would let us come in and take anything we wanted, so I had every one of those cd's. even juvenile, and I didn't even like cash money back then.

no bullshyt, I even have survival of the illest and harlem world. that harlem world was a fukking coaster tho. only thing I dont got u listed was the pac's greatest hits.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood

?

tho i remember when disaster strikes dropping earlier no? bobby digital tooo

 

[DaveyDave]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood

i remember buying these ones throughout 98 & others. i didn't get a proper copy of Hard Knock Life til 2000 when i bought it in Korea, it had a bunch of misprints and shyt on the inside of the cover

 

[Danie84]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood


These kind of choices had a nikka confused at tower, using them "sample" stands to hear snippets


Kids still struggle like this on itunes?

Freshman year of highschool

You can call X a crackhead all you want, but noone will ever take away his reign in 98. He was spitting straight gutter music, going 5times platinum, and debuting at number one on Billboard, twice in a year.

He was the only rapper to headline Woodstock too




Look at the crowd and the reaction he got.

 

[Food Mane]

Anyone remember when Bobby Digital dropped and it came with a free t-shirt?

Everyone left school at lunch to pick it up and came back wearing the same RZA shirt. and

 

[OG Talk]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood


These kind of choices had a nikka confused at tower, using them "sample" stands to hear snippets


Kids still struggle like this on itunes?

The bold were easy choices for me...

The summer/fall of '96 had much harder decisions...

 

[The_Third_Man]

Outkast's "Aquemini", Jay-z's "Hard knock life vol.2", A tribe called Quest's "the Love movement", and Black Star's "Mos Def and talib Kweli are black star" all came out the same day. 29-9-1998.


so did "hit me baby one more time"

 

[Broccoli Rob]

Survival of the illest...or belly Sdtk
Hard knock life or aquemini
Docs da name or Da last don
Tical 2000 or 400 degreez
2pac greatest hits...or harlem world
When disaster strikes...or Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood

Not me, I only wanted the bolded titles and those were the ones I purchased.

The chick I was messing with at that time got 400 Degreez and I wasn't really understanding it yet. She was making me listen and I was like

 

[Heretic]

man I was broke as shyt in college back then. luckily, my roommate worked at the local record store and he would let us come in and take anything we wanted, so I had every one of those cd's. even juvenile, and I didn't even like cash money back then.

no bullshyt, I even have survival of the illest and harlem world. that harlem world was a fukking coaster tho. only thing I dont got u listed was the pac's greatest hits.

Lol that was my strategy i.just used to fill a bookbag with cds and dip