SPIN: Whats The Most Overrated Year For Hip-Hop?
- Thread starter Wacky D
- Start date
2001
That was one of the GOAT years.
I guess cause you're a lil' younger (no dis)... but I remember the early part of the year being dead boring. Then around the summer, there was a lotta good singles out. Then the Jay/Nas shyt kicked off and that was crazy. Blueprint was dope of course, Jada's album was aiiiite, Stillmatic closed the year off on a high note.But going back, there was a lot of disposable shyt poppin' that year. A lot. It wasn't TERRIBLE, but when thinking back on 2001 as an all-out classic year, the only thing that really sticks out is Jay vs Nas. Anything else is a bunch of stuff that doesn't immediately jump out at you as memorable. The music was decent (at least the second half of the year) and a great battle. That about it.
The_Third_Man
Superstar
summer/fall 2001 was the most exciting time I've ever had as hiphop fan
DoomzdayzV
Banned
I hated the cocoa brovas album.
fukk......when I saw the first TV spot for "BCCs own Smif n Wessun are now....The Cocoa Brovas" n it showed the scenes from Won on Won with those cats sittin in bubble baths. ugh...the name was stupid n the video looked gay as hell. Won on Won and Spanish Harlem are great tracks tho.
oh word 1993 was overrated?
-36 Chambers
-Doggystyle
-Midnight Maruaders (Tribe)
-Return of Boom Rap (KRS)
-Enda Da Stage (Black Moon)
-Illegal Business (Mac Mall)
-Strictly 4 My nikkaz
-The Four Horsemen (Ultramagnetic MC's)
-Comin Out Hard (Eightball and MJG)
-Baccdafukk up (Onyx)
-187 - Spice 1
-In God We Trust (Brand Nubian)
-Menace 2 Society Soundtrack
-Domino
-Mobb Deep's - Juvenile Hell
etc..............
Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
beans vs jada >>>>>> jay vs nas
1993 >>> 1994
1993 >>> 1994
Big Mel said:
Aquemini
Capital Punishment
Moment of Truth
First Family 4 Life
Miseducation
Doc's Da Name
El Nino
Soul Survivor
N.O.R.E.
400 Degreez
The Dude
My Balls And My Word
Don Cartagena
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
Retaliation, Revenge & Getback
IDAHIH
FOMFBOMB
Vol. 2
Streets Is Watching
Steal This Album
Bobby Digital
Tical 2000
Black Star
Still Standing
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Besides 88 any year before 94 is underrated.
So many dope albums came out from 87 to 93.
Artfull Dodger
All Star
Nas - illmatic
BIG - Ready to die -
Scarface - The Diary
Common - Resurrection
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
The Roots - Do You Want More?
Nas - illmatic
BIG - Ready to die -
Scarface - The Diary
Common - Resurrection
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
The Roots - Do You Want More?
And then, not to mention most of '93's great albums came out all the way at the end of the year, so they rolled over into early-'94.
So yeah... '94 >>>>> '93 with no debate.
But even on its own, '94 was an all around stronger year. Albums, singles, new artists, etc... it only adds to it that most of '93's best albums were released so late in the year, they carry over. That's only an added thing that makes the year that much better. Even without that, '94 was a big year.
To '93's credit, The Chronic came out in the last 2 weeks of '92, so that has its own mark left in '93. Matter fact, it was the most-loved, played, bought album of that year all the way til damn near the end. Because '93 had a lot of good singles and a nice batch of albums, but it didn't get GREAT until like the last three months. It was OK up until the fall, THEN all the great stuff came out. It still counts as '93, sure... but there was a whole 9 months of that year that was just... good. Whereas '94? From top to bottom, consistently high quality shyt coming out.