:flabbynsick: brehs, 2000 was 20 years ago speak on it...

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I was 11 back then :yeshrug:

-Triple H had all the good wrestling matches that year. WCW was basically dead and was a pile of shyt
-eminem was everywhere
-everyone with collected pokemon cards or own pokemon yellow/blue/red
-the debate between the simpsons vs family guy was heating up
-you were considered cool if u had a PS2. A dvd was a big deal back then

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Dreamcast was crazy

That Chronic 2001 was legendary, everyone on every coast was floored by it, esp the first half of the CD

JayZ and R Kelly had that Fiesta joint and they were the two hottest artists on the planet...ppl loved it so much it led to Best of Both Worlds

Cash Money was peaking

Allen Iverson was a God

I did not own a cell phone nor anyone I knew had one (Nokia started the affordable cell craze and didn’t really hit hard till 2001)

Eminem was probably the king of rap

Nas had fallen completely off...wasn’t until the next year he came back to stay (Ether)
 

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Jada and Jay-Z were going at it, on remixes, from Fiesta to the Mya tracks, The Lox "Wild Out", and then "Ryde or Die bytch", was one of the hottest tracks, and came out 20 years ago this month. I was 14 and dubbing cds and radio onto cassette tapes to make mixtapes to walk to school with. Sisqo album was really hot at the time, too. Beanie Sigel "The Truth" dropped in April 2000, and I bought that week one. "Remember The Dayz" was my shyt at the time.

Nas and Jay were slowly inching towards a battle, I think Nas released that track over "Eye For An Eye", around this time. I was getting ready to graduate middle school, and Shyne was the hottest artist in the street to me. Norm Macdonald hosted SNL and Dre and Em were the musical guests, when 'Forgot About Dre" was THE track of the moment. Ruff Ryders Vol. 2 came out that summer, and didn't hit as hard as the debut, but Styles P "Holiday", and Jadakiss solo were standouts. WW3 with Kiss, Snoop, Scarface was another. Everyone was eager for Jada's solo. Cam'ron "Let Me Know" was in my headphones all summer on a burned cd I made at someone else's house.

Desperately wanted a CD burner. Shade Sheist and Nate Dogg "Where I Wanna Be" was out. The video for Busta Ryhmes "Break Ya Neck" playing all summer. Ja Rule "Between Me & You" was a song I loved too, I really wanted it to be on the Backstage soundtrack, but it wasn't. QB's Finest dropped in 2000, so you had some of Nas best work, and everyone wondering where he was, skill wise, after the panned Nastradamus. There was Memphis Bleek 'My Mind Right", that set the whole war off.

There was Bleek's second album and SDE in the fall, "Is That Your bytch" was on the MTV/BET circuit. The Dynasty dropped in September, and I remember I didn't like "I Just Wanna Love You", I thought it was goofy and commercial, Jay had never really done a single like that before. Melyssa Ford in the Eye Candy XXL. Lil Kim in the Eye Candy XXL.
 

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Jada and Jay-Z were going at it, on remixes, from Fiesta to the Mya tracks, The Lox "Wild Out", and then "Ryde or Die bytch", was one of the hottest tracks, and came out 20 years ago this month. I was 14 and dubbing cds and radio onto cassette tapes to make mixtapes to walk to school with. Sisqo album was really hot at the time, too. Beanie Sigel "The Truth" dropped in April 2000, and I bought that week one. "Remember The Dayz" was my shyt at the time.

Nas and Jay were slowly inching towards a battle, I think Nas released that track over "Eye For An Eye", around this time. I was getting ready to graduate middle school, and Shyne was the hottest artist in the street to me. Norm Macdonald hosted SNL and Dre and Em were the musical guests, when 'Forgot About Dre" was THE track of the moment. Ruff Ryders Vol. 2 came out that summer, and didn't hit as hard as the debut, but Styles P "Holiday", and Jadakiss solo were standouts. WW3 with Kiss, Snoop, Scarface was another. Everyone was eager for Jada's solo. Cam'ron "Let Me Know" was in my headphones all summer on a burned cd I made at someone else's house.

Desperately wanted a CD burner. Shade Sheist and Nate Dogg "Where I Wanna Be" was out. The video for Busta Ryhmes "Break Ya Neck" playing all summer. Ja Rule "Between Me & You" was a song I loved too, I really wanted it to be on the Backstage soundtrack, but it wasn't. QB's Finest dropped in 2000, so you had some of Nas best work, and everyone wondering where he was, skill wise, after the panned Nastradamus. There was Memphis Bleek 'My Mind Right", that set the whole war off.

There was Bleek's second album and SDE in the fall, "Is That Your bytch" was on the MTV/BET circuit. The Dynasty dropped in September, and I remember I didn't like "I Just Wanna Love You", I thought it was goofy and commercial, Jay had never really done a single like that before. Melyssa Ford in the Eye Candy XXL. Lil Kim in the Eye Candy XXL.

Born in 86? I feel like u lived my life.
 

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Born in 86? I feel like u lived my life.

85, yeah, anyone with even some similar characteristics, and that age, will share a lot of those memories. 5 years older or younger is nearly entirely different. If you weren't playing Next, "Too Close" in 98 and "Wifey" in 2000, you aren't from my generation lol

If they didn't play "Party Up" at your middle school dance lol

One could go on
 

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Back then it still felt very recent when thinking of pac and biggie’s deaths...it was hard not to compare anything that was hot at the time to them. Today their deaths are so long ago so that comparison is not really done like that before.

Their beef also made it cool for fools to always throw up random gang signs for photos, particularly the suburban pac stans throwing up the W in every photo opportunity (no cell phone photos back then).

I remember thinking it was the coolest thing when those midi beat ringtones could be set on classic rap tunes...cornball ish when i think about it now.

back then freestyle drops were way more common unlike today, you literally could find a “freestyle” of anybody poppin’ back then, reason i put it in quotation marks because it was thing were people would debate whether the artist really went off the top of the dome.

back then most hip hop fans used a lot of eastcoast lingo, this was particularly true if you were posting/reading hip hop forums back then, everyone spoke like 5 percenters.
 
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