Is my gen allowed to start reminiscing about the 2000s yet?

[ElMorenoFeo809]

If we’re being honest 2000-2010 was one of the more trash decades of the last 60 years in terms of music and culture.

Nah i gotta disagree with you on that when it comes to music. I'd say its 2010-2020.


Them performances on the versus ( the lox vs dipset, fat joe vs jarule ) had me grateful that i grew up listening to them on the radio even though i prefer 80s and 90s rap.

Boost mobile Ringtone era rap >>>>> 2010s.

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

Iknow this came out in 1999 but still was getting play in 2000s. Don't act like ya guys never sang to this while riding on school bus for a field trip.


Man i wish i can go 22 years back

 

[Spade]

I don't feel like I was robbed of a childhood and neither do most other 00s kids...



Every era bleeds into the next like this, it takes a couple years for an era to form its own identity. The early 80s were an extension of the 70s, the early 90s were an extension of the 80s, and I was around for the early 10s which were an extension of the 00s...

By the time you got halfway thru 2012 there was a morphing of a unique era personality from the 00s, and by the time '13 hit certainly you were fully in and of the 00s...

It's 2021, this year is not particularly distinct from 2019 or '18 or '16, but these first two years of the '20s are transforming gradually in front of us whether we realize it or not. Some time next year and definitely by '23 it'll be easier to note the separation from the 2010s...

Yeah this is true . Been saying this for a while. You won’t see a transformation of the new decade until around that the middle of that third year of the decade. Mid 2022ish and then the cycle will be complete in 2023.

I will say the early 00s was a bit different because I think 9/11 ushered in the start of a change. Before 9/11, 2001 and especially 2000 was just an extension of the late 90s. 2002 was holding on but the change was starting to become rapid. Not much of a difference at all imo culturally and musically though in 00 and 01 from the late 90s.

The early 00s were cool though even up to 2005. 2006-2009 though.

 

[RTF]

200's hip hop and rnb ranks extremely high for singles and videos. But the albums were poor. Snap music in the right crowd will have amazing crowd reaction. As it should, it's made to dance and laugh along too. And the earlier stuff - Nelly, Neptunes, 50, Ja etc. are exceptionally well-written pop songs.

2009 - 2014 mixtape era ranks lower for singles and videos. But higher for albums.

 

[Yinny]

I remember my childhood dying on 9/11

Literally my first day of high school

 

[Zime]

Yeah this is true . Been saying this for a while. You won’t see a transformation of the new decade until around that the middle of that third year of the decade. Mid 2022ish and then the cycle will be complete in 2023.

I will say the early 00s was a bit different because I think 9/11 ushered in the start of a change. Before 9/11, 2001 and especially 2000 was just an extension of the late 90s. 2002 was holding on but the change was starting to become rapid. Not much of a difference at all imo culturally and musically though in 00 and 01 from the late 90s.

The early 00s were cool though even up to 2005. 2006-2009 though.

You bugging 2006 & 2007 was a great year for me

 

[Spade]

You bugging 2006 & 2007 was a great year for me

The only thing good about 2006 was January 4, 2006 in the Rose bowl. The rest of that year was trash and 2007 was worse. But hey, that’s me

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

Everything was better 2000-2007ish except internet speed. Music. Fashion. Culture. From 2008-2020 everything became cookie cutter bs. From music to fashion to ovrrall culture. Everyone is the same. No originality at all. Every city got the same restaurants and copcat restaurants and all the other shyt.

nah i'd say the originality kept going until about 2015. late 2000's was the rise of Odd Future, J.Cole, Drake, T.D.E., etc. Honestly I would call 09-2015 a second golden age in hip-hop. Then you had the beginnings of alt R&B with The Weeknd's first 3 mixtapes, Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, Miguel, Solange, The Internet, and so on.

In film you had the Marvel Cinematic Universe and modern horror movies like the Conjuring, in TV you had prestige television in it's prime and fashion was transitioning from streetwear brands like L.R.G., Bathing Ape, Stussy to the euro centric bullshyt we got now.

I'd say the wheels fell off after 2015. Last truly original shyt was Chief Keef's I Don't Like, Dirty Sprite 2 and Frank Ocean's Blond from 2016. shyt been stale as fukk since then. Something needs to come and knock out this overly glammed up, empty, soulless, blonde hair and too much makeup, fake luxury, scammer culture we have now

 

[Redwood]

The 2000s were decent, but it's a lot better compared to the last decade to what's current.

 

[murksiderock]

Meh...tbh the vibe of the 2000s started changing around 08.

2008 was just one of those years that a lot of shyt happened that just changed life as we know it for real.

2010 to me was completely different vibe from even 06 lol.

as for the thread, due to corona we have people out here feeling nostalgic about 2013-16 so yeah the 2000s is fine

In the moment, '10 felt different from '06 because I went away in '06 and came home near the dawn of '10...

In retrospect they weren't really that different...

The largest and most unique contrast from the mid-00s to the early '10s was the literal explosion of social media and the advent of super technology like WiFi, smartphones, tablets and HD TV. Those things technically existed in the mid-to-late 00s but they were in their infancy as a technology; the 2010s is really the defining era of these things..

And personally I'm nostalgic for the 2013-16 era, the music was better than it is currently, sports were fukking dope, and I made a lot of money in '15 and '16 (surpassed that in '17 and and peaked with the most money I've earned in '18). So honestly I'm slightly nostalgic for the entire 2013-2019 era, that was a pretty dope time in my life but these early '20s aren't all that distinct from the late '10s...

Yeah this is true . Been saying this for a while. You won’t see a transformation of the new decade until around that the middle of that third year of the decade. Mid 2022ish and then the cycle will be complete in 2023.

I will say the early 00s was a bit different because I think 9/11 ushered in the start of a change. Before 9/11, 2001 and especially 2000 was just an extension of the late 90s. 2002 was holding on but the change was starting to become rapid. Not much of a difference at all imo culturally and musically though in 00 and 01 from the late 90s.

The early 00s were cool though even up to 2005. 2006-2009 though.

The only thing good about 2006 was January 4, 2006 in the Rose bowl. The rest of that year was trash and 2007 was worse. But hey, that’s me

100%...

June 7, 2006 to September 28, 2009 I was locked up, so yeah those years all fuxking sucked. Early '06 was super dope to me; late '09 is a blur and kinda just bled into 2010 quickly for me...

I felt like the first 5 months of '06 were wavy. The mixtape scene that would come was just beginning its early roll and we were approaching Peak Wayne, Peak Tip, Kanye was in his prime. Early '06 was the last wave of BET still being BET, showing music videos. Granted, I was 16, but early '06 I felt like a baller with the little drugs I was selling, beating nikkas up in the street, had the lil girls all on me, I was able to buy my own clothes and I had the fly kicks and shyt. During my teenage years, 2004 until the point I went down in '06 was a "golden era" of fun and mischief for me lol...

The '10s really stamped their impact with the arrival of Drill and the West Coast resurgence going mainstream. Mixtape circuit at its peak, that new style of RnB that basically was rapping ass singers, all that. 2012 is when the 10s truly announced their arrival...

As you said, there's going to be some culturally relevant and significant occurrence that happens during '22, and certainly by '23, that firmly distinguishes the changing of eras...

We in lockstep on most of this!

Something needs to come and knock out this overly glammed up, empty, soulless, blonde hair and too much makeup, fake luxury, scammer culture we have now

Something will; something always does!