If Internet message and Social Media was around in 94,what would be the reception to illmatic Ect.

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Everything is truth, particularly the bolded. Something the newbies among us wont understand.

I was listening to rap heavy by '97 and I remember people NOT fukkING with rap. In your face, fukk-this-genre type of attitude. Racist opinions. I watched those same people, circa 2000, suddenly become "hip hop fans."

This is why anything post-1996 is questionable and requires extra scrutiny. There have been classic albums and songs since then, but not as much as hip hop prior to that.

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shyt is exactly like the Coli:pachaha:
There were small BBS boards back then, you can google them. People talking bout Illmatic being overhyped and how the state of current rap (94-95) is wack :mjlol:

Same old same old.

:dead: shyt look like a coli post


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Bootlegged albums were big back then, and it's funny because my first time ever seeing/hearing about Illmatic was from someone selling a bootlegged cassette and this was in fukking Kentucky:deadmanny:
 

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If Internet message boards and Social Media was around in 94 what would be the reception to Illmatic and Ready 2 Die?


I see this what alot of album i hear today, Message board and social media members are totally convinced that people can't be loving these projects that much. And it has to be this huge cover up to push a artist and brainwash the fans.

Obviously this has been going on with Kendrick latest project, but i felt this way since Cole album dropped.

But back to topic i truly believe if these internet outlets were available in 94 that half the people would be screaming from the mountains that Illmatic and Ready 2 die is all internet hype and its nothing compared to Paid in full Ect.

The shyt gets kinda corny and cause u essentially disrespecting the fans by saying they can't think for themselves(and u might be right on some of them), but u can say the same about alot of dudes with who love illmatic, cause the hype around that album have hip hop fans who dont even like that album saying its the goat or classic just cause its the consensus in hip hop. shyt i know people that dont even get the album, it goes way over they head but they keeping naming it in they top album(corny follower shyt)

but there are truly fans that love the music that's being released today, shyt regardless of how people feel this is the music, the youth is living it day in and day out and it will touch them in a way that might not touch a older head that lived through the Nas, Big, Hov, X, Pac(90s era).


these jawns were around back then:

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sometimes its funny to go back and read the posts from the mid 90s
 

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Technology (social media, napster, internet) changed music drastically. No clue how the 90's would have been in today's environment.
 

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Everything is truth, particularly the bolded. Something the newbies among us wont understand.

I was listening to rap heavy by '97 and I remember people NOT fukkING with rap. In your face, fukk-this-genre type of attitude. Racist opinions. I watched those same people, circa 2000, suddenly become "hip hop fans."

This is why anything post-1996 is questionable and requires extra scrutiny. There have been classic albums and songs since then, but not as much as hip hop prior to that.
Y'all really let him get away with this post :dahell:.

This dude admitted to just listening to hip hop a few years ago :what:.
 

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I remember seeing some google or old archived message board from like 97 and reading comments. The shyt was wild and people said illmatic was overrated back then.
 

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Detroit message board in 1994:

"Yeah this Nas guy is good but Closed Casket by Esham is way better"
 

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Aint nobody got time for all that boom bap rap

This ish boring


TK Kirkland said in one sentence exactly what destroyed hip hop and the community in general and made everything so stupid..

 
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