Let's be real...THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER GOLDEN ERA.

[MegaTronBomb!]

Firstly, cause New York will never be in a position of prominence again.... but mostly for this one simple fact.


We don't appreciate music in the same fashion anymore..... Nothing is allowed to be great in it's own right,everything has to be compared to the magnum opus of the 90's...Album drops, and it's " oh it's good, but it's not Illmatic" "b-bu-but Nas was 19 when that came out... Chief Keef 17 and made THIS "

Albums come out, and the first thing we do... is compare them to other shyt.

Albums drop, and in a month or less... we don't care anymore, cause we got 20-30 mixtapes to come out, and get new music daily.

No other genre consumes music at the rate we do... or the pace that we do.

at this point, it doesn't matter how great the music is...it'll never be the 90's ( even tho there was more trash that dropped in the 90's than any era)

Wishing for another "Golden Era" is just pointless now..

 

[smokeurobinson]

....the internet is currently walking into its golden era.

 

[BlackDroog]

you don't know it's a "Golden Era" until you compare it to a later one. late 90's through late 2000's was wack compared to the good early 90's rap...so that's when the "Golden Era" talk started...

 

[L. Deezy]

man all these new nyggas rap like Sugar Hill gang now over south beats.

fix the lyrics first.. fukk a beat

 

[O_Cyrus]

Old man rant...

As one of the angry old men who post and lurk on the board, the difference in the 90's compared to now, as I see it, is that you have no connection to your favorite artist. Those who lived there and had hip hop solidified and quantified back then don't want a literal return of the Boom Bap era or even to that type of rhyming. It is the sense of being on the same page as an artist that we are missing. At that time there was somebody at the top of the game for nearly everybody to feel that someone was speaking for and to them. You could have groups like NWA, Tribe, Mobb and many other that people could look at and see and hear themselves in and all were getting spins on the radio and in clubs. If that was not your steeze you still had space, at the top, for your MC Hammers, Toc Loc, Fresh Prince, Coolio and other good times type artists getting spin too. To me, all they push now is getting high, getting women, getting money and getting over. Not saying the 90's didn't have it because it did and a lot of it but there was some other messages coming across the airwaves. They are just pushing one extreme lifestyle and it is one that very few people can ever live up to. I know not na'an nikka dat woke up in a new Bugatti. Ever.
The only reason I even listen to the radio is because I have a son and I want to know what he listens to. How the does every urban station across the nation all play the same set of songs and then every song sounds the same? You can probably throw the top 10 artists and not have much variance. You can get by on the music one just as well as the next. Just varying degrees of mediocrity.
Bottomline: You don't have anything to build that bridge to the music or the artists like there used to be. They are designed to be disposable and that is how we and the industry treats them.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

....the internet is currently walking into its golden era.

the internet in 2004-07>>>>>>>>>>

 

[smokeurobinson]

the internet in 2004-07>>>>>>>>>>

I can't bite the bait cuz we both know u lying to yourself. Thats like saying the Playsation is better then the Playstation 3

 

[Fmju]

It's a golden era for me. Iont give a fukk what y'all like or not lmao

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

I can't bite the bait cuz we both know u lying to yourself. Thats like saying the Playsation is better then the Playstation 3

that's like saying 2013>>>>>1996, cause we have more technology.....right?

 

[keon]

you don't know it's a "Golden Era" until you compare it to a later one. late 90's through late 2000's was wack compared to the good early 90's rap...so that's when the "Golden Era" talk started...

the true golden era is and will always be around 87 - 89..the east was droppin classic after classic, the west coast gained national attention with N.W.A and basically birthed gangsta rap..even the south started getting some recognition thanks to the Geto Boys

 

[smokeurobinson]

the true golden era is and will always be around 87 - 89..the east was droppin classic after classic, the west coast gained national attention with N.W.A and basically birthed gangsta rap..even the south started getting some recognition thanks to the Geto Boys

87 - 92 Golden Era

93 - 2002 Platinum era

2003 - 2006 Southern Takeover and ringtone era

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Well I think we are currently in the midst of the EMO ERA myself....

But with the direction record sales are headed

Not to mention the fact that rap music videos and rap groups are pretty much dead.

I would have to probably agree with the OP.

Its will still be dope music thats comes out and that will be produced but I doubt if it will every be the same

 

[JuvenileHell]

The South fukked everything up in the 2000s

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

The South fukked everything up in the 2000s

was this before or after new yorkers tried to emulate them?

 

[Mac Casper]

you don't know it's a "Golden Era" until you compare it to a later one. late 90's through late 2000's was wack compared to the good early 90's rap...so that's when the "Golden Era" talk started...

Uhhh . . . no, golden era was a term used to describe the late 80s