Tariq Nasheed was part of the video that started the downfall of Hip Hop

[360dagod]

breh bringin back memories

 

[smokeurobinson]

I never saw it on rap city either.
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I do remember it being heavy on BET tho....

 

[TEH]

idgaf this is lit

 

[KOohbt]

NYC is never gonna be relevant again

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

And who is L.A. Snow


Classic dance song

 

[360dagod]

I do remember it being heavy on BET tho....

i think it was on rap city...They used to play all the indie and under the radar southern joints...

this was during the cablevision skinny black remote days

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Video got me nostalgic as fukk. The old AUC.. so many hoes on the "strip".

RIP Stegalls.

 

[jilla82]

Tariq is about making money.
"Pro black" is his current hustle.
If you cant see that...thats on you.

 

[IWunD3r]

fukk all this, congested apartment roach, and rat neighbor having ass nikka.
This song still kicking , and shyt was ahead of its time... song rangs truer than evrr

 

[Methodical]

Oh shyt. I do remember Baby Daddy and U Know U Ghetto songs.

U Know U Ghetto sounds like Juvenile would rap about it.

 

[Mowgli]

@ the 1:49 mark...


This was a discussion on Hot97 in the early 2000's. Hot 97 changed its format from dance/freestyle to Hip Hop in 1993. And prior to this song Hot 97, had a certain standard, it didnt allow low brow bamma fukkery on its airways....U didnt hear songs from that whole 2Live Crew/Luke movement in the early 90's .....Sir Mix A Lot had girls putting them on the glass back in the day but Hot97 wasnt having it.......Now you did hear Scarface and you did hear Snoop because NYC only allowed quality....... but when early 1997 hit , the song "My Baby Daddy" won battle of the beats for a week on Hot97 which didnt even sound right(Even Angie Martinez had to sigh), so now we had this bamma ass song getting heavy airplay in NYC. The high standard was now loward. Soon afterward Master P and his "lacking of hot lyrics" crew started getting heavy rotation in NYC airways and its been downhill ever since. Once FunkMaster Flex(The man who sh*tted on Shaq and Deon Sanders because they were trying to rap in the mid 90's ) started spinning E.I. by Nelly, the NYC standard had changed forever and the flood gates of fukkery and wack rappers had fully infultrated on a mainstream level because Hot97 was the standard. And it all started with this one song. Listening to this song now....It fits so well with the current climate of ratchetness but back then it didnt. The bamma-ness of this song (WHO DAT IS??....THAT AINT NOBODY!!!, yeah because the baby daddy is a nobody) was something that was kinda looked down on by a few from the previous generation(The same way Black folks who cant talk right on camera is still looked down on). This current generation tho, welcomes this type of ratchetness



Now I fuxx with Tariq Nasheed all day and its obvious he was younger in the video and back then we didnt know who he was and he's obviously on another level to where he wouldnt even be apart of such nonsense in this climate...But I find it a little bit funny and ironic how years later dude is the advocate for anti-rachetness but was in the 1 video that opened the floodgates for ratchet acceptance in Hip Hop.

Negged. We still fukk with you even though you said you ilke trannies, in the present tense. How we gonna knock Flex for something he did in his early 20's

 

[Taadow]

Fucc what you talmbat, "My Baby Daddy" a classic.

Sick and ti'ed GUH
You 'bout to get fi'ed GUH
Don't even try it GUH
Behind already done lied GUH

From the same camp that gave us the classic: "Splackavellie"

 

[cjlaw93]

breh bringin back memories

I remember watching this in 2nd grade

 

[Newportbox]

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 ruined hip hop radio. Conglomerates started consolidating radio rotations nationally. The same lowest common denominator type shyt around the nation. Local DJ's started getting handcuffed as to what they could play. Less local DJ's breaking local emcees.
Some corporate executive in Indianapolis pushing the same songs in every city.
If you want to blame anyone, blame Bill Clinton.

 

[Wild self]

When you let outsiders and thots dictate the music, that is what happens. Catering to the lowest common denominator ruins the standard of everything.