Is "Aint No Ni**a" the WORST quality sounding song on a retail album?

[Rapmastermind]

of course when youre on multiple hits at once, its a combination. the point was, you were giving all the credit to "aint no ni**a" when "touch me tease me" was clearly the bigger song and you didnt even mention it.

just say you typed your post up real fast without thinking it thru. no need to backtrack. if "aint no niqqa" never dropped, foxy wouldve still been in the same standing. jay benefited from the song way more than she did. foxy was already on pace to stardom, as you just said.

Backtrack? Well the reason I gave the credit to "Ain't No N#gga" if you want to be technical is cause the song was released 1st as it came out in March of 96 as was the video. Also if you read what I said, I said it was "A Huge Introduction to the Mainstream for Foxy" and it was. But I do acknowledge that "Touch Me, Tease Me" ended up being the bigger hit but it was an RnB song that featured Mary J Blige. Sure I think Foxy was destine to blow no matter what but I think it's a hypothetical to say she didn't need "Ain't no N#gga" cause for rap audiences that song did a lot for her. Regardless the song was huge for Jay and Foxy.

 

[Alessandro]

How about the worst quality good album as a whole?

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De La Soul - The Grind Date

(1st post in this bytch!)

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Backtrack? Well the reason I gave the credit to "Ain't No N#gga" if you want to be technical is cause the song was released 1st as it came out in March of 96 as was the video. Also if you read what I said, I said it was "A Huge Introduction to the Mainstream for Foxy" and it was. But I do acknowledge that "Touch Me, Tease Me" ended up being the bigger hit but it was an RnB song that featured Mary J Blige. Sure I think Foxy was destine to blow no matter what but I think it's a hypothetical to say she didn't need "Ain't no N#gga" cause for rap audiences that song did a lot for her. Regardless the song was huge for Jay and Foxy.

im pretty sure "touch me tease me" came out before march '96. i remember melting in the middle of the winter when i saw that video, but we dont need to get into all of that.

and i clearly remember "aint no nicca" being somewhat of a slow burn in terms of airplay & success. also, the "i shot ya" remix was out well before the jay joint so foxy already planted her foot in the rap market.

im not saying that the song didnt do any good for foxy. im not taking anything away from the song either. just pointing out how you were giving undeserved props to this song in the initial post that i quoted. it was moreso "the other song" as far as foxy brown is concerned. its like youre dancing around trying to cover it up and its not even that serious homebwoy.

 

[InstantKlassik]

I think "Unconditional Love" on 2pac's greatest hits is a bit worse, i never understood why that track wasn't cdq? shyt sounds terrible and it's edited

shyt sounds like it was recorded off an old cassette tape that somebody kept recording on, over and over

 

[Gifted one]

Song is a classic, like the homie @YBE said, it brings back a certain time in my life, also an 88er too, best year to be born in.

 

[PHamm]

Anyone who says this song is wack was born after 1990

not really breh. shyt was wack back in 96.

 

[verbalkint]

...always felt like it was lifted straight off a clue tape.

 

[Guess Who]

What's Ya Poison off Murda Musik sounds worse, imo

 

[Urahara_Kisuke]

That's the second best song on that album, after "Feelin It"...

 

[JYoung24]

Last year real nikkas was made

C/s lol

 

[DANJ!]

im pretty sure "touch me tease me" came out before march '96. i remember melting in the middle of the winter when i saw that video, but we dont need to get into all of that.

and i clearly remember "aint no nicca" being somewhat of a slow burn in terms of airplay & success. also, the "i shot ya" remix was out well before the jay joint so foxy already planted her foot in the rap market.

im not saying that the song didnt do any good for foxy. im not taking anything away from the song either. just pointing out how you were giving undeserved props to this song in the initial post that i quoted. it was moreso "the other song" as far as foxy brown is concerned. its like youre dancing around trying to cover it up and its not even that serious homebwoy.

Nah...

"Touch Me Tease Me" dropped around May '96... it was out a month ahead of the Nutty Professor soundtrack.

"Ain't No nikka" had been buzzing just on mixtapes and radio through the early part of '96 and dropped as a video/single in April '96. It was practically already a hit before the video even came out.

Both of 'em played a part in her name being built up, and them both being out around the same time only added to it because it kept her on the radio every hour that summer. They did a lot for her equally.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Nah...

"Touch Me Tease Me" dropped around May '96... it was out a month ahead of the Nutty Professor soundtrack.

"Ain't No nikka" had been buzzing just on mixtapes and radio through the early part of '96 and dropped as a video/single in April '96. It was practically already a hit before the video even came out.

Both of 'em played a part in her name being built up, and them both being out around the same time only added to it because it kept her on the radio every hour that summer. They did a lot for her equally.

how could they possibly have helped her equally when one was considerably bigger than the other?

 

[Danie84]

Blasphemy on Makaveli sounds horrbly mixed too, which is blasphemous for me to even say

 

[surv2syn]

Why do young dudes always want to comment on the sound quality of 90s music when they know today's music sounds way cleaner than back then?

Plus, the song ended up being a big hit anyways regardless of sound quality... so that should tell you something about the people who enjoyed it back then.


Also in the 90s, some songs were meant to have that dirty/grimy effect. Some engineers and producers preferred that vibe back then... the stuff people are speaking about with Kingdom Come & Blueprint 3 was just subpar mixing and mastering, period.

actually a lot of them were meant to sound like that....its sort of what was cool back then...especially when everyone was using SP 12s and s**t. there also were not as many "notable" engineers who could mix a HIP HOP record. some of these engineers were doing Rock records and stuff....not the same. Like I didnt like a lot of Joe The Butcher's earlier hip hop stuff. Wasnt dirty, just didnt sound like Hip Hop to me....remember, he was doing a lot of Billy Joel stuff.

As far as Aint No N**ga, I remember an interview with Jaz and he was talking about it and how the quality of the sample he had was bad and how they tried to clean it up and even though the track sounds simple as hell....they had to do a lot to that sample and loop. S**t is actually offbeat.

I was one of those guys who didnt like bad mixes...but at the end of the day, the albums with the worst mixes were the biggest hits and the ones with the best were not.

I used to love anything Troy Hightower did....although it didnt move a lot of units....the mix of OK's Equinox was brilliant!

Some guys knew how to mix and some didnt, simple as that. Marley was damn good too....listen to Capone Bone again....excellent mix.

 

[jalamanta]

Ol' Frank Ocean listening ass nikkas