Old heads.... When Pac dropped HOW DO U WANT IT.... what was it like?

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

To me, imo, it was a crossover song that was aimed at the ladies.

Redman, nas, jay z, heltah skeltah, the roots, cella dwellas, lil kim, Mobb deep, outkast, and de la soul all had classics that year. I'm sure I'm missing a few with that. But then again Baltimore was an east coast market.

No doubt it got spin though.

Yep.

I'll add Smoothe The Hustler, O.G.C., Jeru, Ghostface, Poor Righteous Teachers, M.O.P., Nine, Ras Kass, Bush Babees, The Fugees, Keith Murray, Shyheim, Xzibit, and Al-Tariq to that list of albums I copped or bumped that year.

I was still in high school, but I do remember that Pac song getting plenty of video play. But '96 was a smorgasbord of dope shyt to choose from just about every other week, so a crossover radio song wasn't really on our radar like that in my circle.

 

[WesCrook]

The X rated version of the video had us like

True story

Pac passed out on the set due to smashing so many of those video thots.

 

[Food Mane]

I started to realize how thorough K ci and JoJo were.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Pac just wasn't the artist people looked for in clubs or in the streets on the East Coast (or the South) at that time. Sure, you had a few cats that loved him, but the overwhelming majority of us would just FFWD/Skip his tracks. Most of us didn't buy his albums. Hell, if my boy hadn't thrown AEOM into his stereo while we was getting blunted one time, I'd have probably never listened to him at all. I still don't listen to him like that and I don't know of many who do in my generation.

I'm not saying he's not a Legend or doesn't have any 'classics'. Just revisionistic history paints a picture of his ascendancy that is FAR from the reality for those of us who actually lived through it at an appreciable time.

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[god shamgod]

I'm not saying he's not a Legend or doesn't have any 'classics'. Just revisionistic history paints a picture of his ascendancy that is FAR from the reality for those of us who actually lived through it at an appreciable time.

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Facts

these lame groupie 90's babies want it to be one way but it was the other way.

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Please do

Both Sample Isaac Hayes “A Few More Kisses to Go”

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Please do

Isaac Hayes “Walk On By”

 

[Bushmaster]

I was 11

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Please do

Isaac Hayes “The Look of Love”

 

[King Poetic]

LA radio was playing it every hour on the hour with california love

i was a young teen, but you couldn't help but see hoes shaking they ass in nikkas 6'4s or hearing cousins talk about the song playing at hood and hollywood clubs

Many young nikkas was made off that song as well as with jodeci freek'n you

 

[Mr. Negative]

they played it a lot but it was

California Love was getting a lotta burn

2 of America's Most got play but was

I ain't mad at ya blew waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay the fukk up.

 

[Change]

You have to erase how you view music now to understand. It wasn't about likes or clicks.

You also have to think about there being no mp3's.

It's funny this came up. I just found an old mixtape i used to drive around with all the time and this was on it. I don't like it as much now but i realized i really did like it when i heard some of my old mix it brought me back.

It was a good time song. You know? A lot of us still had tapes so we would have our mobb deep, jeru, BCC, Biggie. I still played the Chronic a lot at this point. A LOT of street mixtapes. But if you were having a good time and this came on in the mix it was dope. Fast forwarding was still a pain. You had to come correct with a full album most of the time.

Video was good too. Definitely a bit different than most videos of the time. Was huge on weekends when BET and MTV really promoted rap on the weekend nights.

 

[patscorpio]

how do you want it was a cool song and a classic but it didnt like run things

the x rated version of it though ..i think playboy used to air that shyt

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Isaac Hayes “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic“

 

[Elim Garak]

I like how people keep ignoring the cold hard fact this song went to number 1 on the Billboard charts lol. But they claim no one was checking for it that makes no sense.