Share YOUR limewire story

[jensyao]

full threads here for some reminders:

www.reddit.com/r/hiphop101/comments/jv8yeq/back_in_limewire_days_which_album_did_you_not/

www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/jvaket/back_in_limewire_days_which_album_did_you_not/

• i.e. downloading a file and getting something completely different like some random guy's parody of it, etc

• having to virus scan multiple times a week using different software

• Running dial up ALL THE TIME and having to begrudgingly disconnect when someone wants to use the phone

• Freaking out when your computer decides to start up in the middle of the night when you know you shut it down

learning to not download .exe files, files suspicious in size, being able to download limewire pro, etc

• finding rare music or new artists for the first time, elaborate

I remember finding out about immortal tech for the first time and downloading canibus and papoose freestyles

• finding classic mixtape joints like this line-up that features everybody/mega remixes/g-unit remakes

• random songs from limewire that are still not on youtube today or mislabeled/hard to find

• downloading music videos like Hit Em Up etc

 

[Complexion]

Let me play you the song of my people...

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...Can it be that it was all so simple then?​

 

[Peter Parker]

It was so hard to get an album all with the proper uniformity, same track names, same bitrate, etc. I ended up just using it for porn, got my first porn flicks ever off there(EBT: China and some shyt called Chow Dong with Diamond Foxxx).

Some cat had a blogspot back in the day called Classic Hip Hop albums or something where he would upload nikkas whole discog if you requested it and datpiff had every mixtape I ever wanted so I just used that for music. plus i was starting to fall out of rap fandom and it was easier to find direct downloads of non-rap shyt at the time.

 

[Deltron]

I remember getting looped bullshyt of the eminem show

Was trying to bootleg it to sell

 

[Breh Obama]

Leaving the computer on all night just to download J-Hood/DBlock and Banks/GUnit mixtapes...

 

[JustCKing]

Out of all the programs, Limewire was the only one I hated. I only used it to download songs. I never used it for albums. They were crafty at blocking a lot of material. I don't remember seeing anything on it with proper tags.

 

[zayk35]

U had to put in much work but I was excited about searching and finding shyt.

 

[Deltron]

Audio galaxy was the goat

 

[JustCKing]

Audio galaxy was the goat

Scroll and click and voila, you have a full albums in queue to download. If you had the right connects, you could request an album and it would appear in your queue.

 

[xiceman191]

I never tried to download full albums off limewire I always went to music blogs for that. But I heard that damn Bill Clinton speech a thousand times

 

[How Sway?]

Back in highschool My friend ended up getting a virus on his mom's computer messing around with limewire

Started having random P0rn ads and websites popping up on his mom's PC.

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

looking for songs and seeing shytty blends titled as a remix like "eazy e and 2pac are on the how we do remix!"
downloading songs to make a mis match album with all different qualities
accidentally downloading clean versions

 

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[Paper Boi]