“I think 2 albums define the era: Dr. Dre - The Chronic & Nevermind - Nirvana; those 2 albums by themselves held the 90’s together IMO” Idalis DeLeon

[Controversy]

on a smaller scale Jay's The Blueprint and The Strokes Is This It is the definitive early 00's New York version of this.

The Blueprint didn't change rap

Ghostface & Beans did a soul sample album before Jigga...Jigga just rode that wave

 

[Awesome Wells]

Yeah, back then, we were not paying attention to sales.

We loved the music when it was great.

Oh I believe it!

I was in VA and for us down here, it was the same way. Yeah, those albums transcended beyond their target audience.

Great music was great music and Nirvana was one of those groups a who’s who of everyone embraced because the music was undeniable

I don’t even know if I can really explain how impactful The Chronic was because that album had like a domino effect on hip hop. That’s the first hip hop I got in trouble listening to! Lol

There’s will be another time like that again.

All true.

Which is why I always say, you can tell a lot of these people weren't there. The Chronic was a "west coast" album. But nobody cared about that back then, in NYC. Sh*t was dope and a classic. We played that all day, everyday. Nobody was gonna front on Dre or anybody from Cali because of location. We went crazy for anything that was dope.

I was a serious Hiero junkie as a kid, and was copping all kinds of classics, no matter where the artist was from. And everybody I knew, was the same way.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

A woman that actually knows about music. A rarity.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

NY rappers were barely going gold in the 90s

while making genre defining classics that were not all commercial cash grabs

you think you said something but you only exposing yourself. no region kept it more music over bullshyt than NY and when the mentality changed the artform was degraded permanently. so the jokes on you. i dunno why a fan of art would be concerned about sales like a soulless corporate clown.

 

[L $ C]

not mad at the take.

ten by pearl jam gotta be up there and im not a fan


i feel like to define a decade it had to drop 90-95 or you too late imo

 

[bigde09]

while making genre defining classics that were not all commercial cash grabs

you think you said something but you only exposing yourself. no region kept it more music over bullshyt than NY and when the mentality changed the artform was degraded permanently. so the jokes on you. i dunno why a fan of art would be concerned about sales like a soulless corporate clown.

This thread is about albums that defined the 90s not dust ball music

 

[Amo Husserl]

Ill

Illmatic ? Lol. shyt couldn't even go platinum in the 90s when everyone was going platinum.

You're not being serious.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

This thread is about albums that defined the 90s not dust ball music

and dusty boom bap defined the 90's. cry about it

 

[I love Latina women]

All true.

Which is why I always say, you can tell a lot of these people weren't there. The Chronic was a "west coast" album. But nobody cared about that back then, in NYC. Sh*t was dope and a classic. We played that all day, everyday. Nobody was gonna front on Dre or anybody from Cali because of location. We went crazy for anything that was dope.

I was a serious Hiero junkie as a kid, and was copping all kinds of classics, no matter where the artist was from. And everybody I knew, was the same way.

Yessir

Exactly. That’s how it was for us in VA. We was loving that shyt and everything that was great music, the region it was coming from didn’t matter to us

God I miss those days man

We ain’t know how good we had it

Bruh, not only was we quoting lines, but slang and shyt too and incorporating into our daily lingo lol

Oh hell yeah; Heiro was dope as hell. The Bay Area has so much talent.

Saafir (RIP) was one of my favorite lyricists from The Bay. I still listen to Boxcar Sessions daily

 

[Iverson_64]

It's not about sales though.

Because if it were, we'd be talking Hammer, Whitney, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks and Metallica and sh*t like that.

She said two albums, not artists. The Chronic changed Hip Hop, more than any other project for the first 1/2 of the decade. And anybody that was around back then, knows that Nevermind did the exact same for grunge/rock. It's not about sales or who we think was better. It's about impact. Which is why Buzz from The Melvins said, "We taught Nirvana everything, and they took what we gave them and became the face of the era." That's just a fact.

I'm the last person on here who thinks sales = cultural impact.

I was more so touching on the other poster's point about how there were so many musical waves, subcultures, and waves in the 90's that it's hard to narrow it down to just 2 albums.

As an example, where I'm from, I'd say an album like Life After Death had just as much of a cultural stranglehold on people as the Chronic but obviously the Chronic is more influential overall.

But, if we're talking strictly early 90's music and not the 90's as a whole, I'd agree.

 

[Knicksman20]

All true.

Which is why I always say, you can tell a lot of these people weren't there. The Chronic was a "west coast" album. But nobody cared about that back then, in NYC. Sh*t was dope and a classic. We played that all day, everyday. Nobody was gonna front on Dre or anybody from Cali because of location. We went crazy for anything that was dope.

I was a serious Hiero junkie as a kid, and was copping all kinds of classics, no matter where the artist was from. And everybody I knew, was the same way.

This is shyt @spliz & me have been saying for years but nikkas act like we're lying or they say that goofy ass east coast bias shyt lol. If someone was actually old enough & alive during the 90's, you heard the Chronic everywhere outside

Same for when Snoop dropped Doggystyle. You couldn't go anywhere in 94 & not hear it. I was playing both those albums my damn self lol

 

[Awesome Wells]

This is shyt @spliz & me have been saying for years but nikkas act like we're lying or they say that goofy ass east coast bias shyt lol. If someone was actually old enough & alive during the 90's, you heard the Chronic everywhere outside

Same for when Snoop dropped Doggystyle. You couldn't go anywhere in 94 & not hear it. I was playing both those albums my damn self lol

Truth.

The first time I heard Doggystyle was outside by St. Nick Projects, across from the church on 7th. Some dude was out there blasting that sh*t in a damn beat down MPV. I'll never forget that. HAHA! Middle of the afternoon, and we stood there and listened to a few joints, lol.

Back then, especially Uptown, you would hear a lot of albums for the first time coming from cars. And it was usually whatever was hot at the moment. It didn't matter where the artist was from. If it was dope, we would hear all kinds of sh*t out there.

 

[Jigganaut]

My pops bought the chronic fam. He never bought rap like that. That's how hard that shyt .

 

[JMD]

My pops bought the chronic fam. He never bought rap like that. That's how hard that shyt .

first time I heard the Chronic I was around 12/13 on the subway train with my mom and there was this breh by himself with a boombox blasting bytches aint shyt

 

[I love Latina women]

first time I heard the Chronic I was around 12/13 on the subway train with my mom and there was this breh by himself with a boombox blasting bytches aint shyt

My sister had the tape and my mom caught me listening to