I'm officially pushing 40 
- and one of the interesting things about getting older is seeing the younger generation (can't believe I'm even using that term) debate about things that you actually lived through....
I know there are a few of us here, so I wanted to jump this off by just telling the true events and feeling from our culture at the time they were actually happening (and everyone us that's my age or older jump in) - Ask us anything.
*90s kid/Early 00's teen/20s
1. Eminem was widely thought to be a clown, 1-hit wonderish type of rapper, until the "Dead Wrong" by Biggie dropped - when everyone heard Eminems verse it was like a bomb hit. Eminem went from clown white rapper to holy sh*t best verse ever like overnight. (Yea he battled and had a mini-rep but we didn't really have internet like that to even know)
2. Of course there was no social media, but if you did use computers or the internet, you were a super geek. I mean it was def cool to say "Computers?? I don't even know how to use those things"...If you were on SOHH you had to hide it. The internet was like a super-nerd thing to the "hood"...now we have Presidential Twitter Fingers and Social Media Beef. Crazy.
3. When Ether dropped it was like the world stopped spinning. Nas was like a joke for the year or 2 Jay-Z had been dissing him, and Jay-Z was media equivalent to what Drake is now. People like to argue that Nas never fell off, but he definitely had fallen way off in public eye..there was no internet forums for stans to congregate. That's why Ether hit so hard - no one expected it, and no one really dissed Jay-Z hard.
4. You could get shot and killed in a Biggie vs. Tupac argument in late 90s. People took it that serious, and I am not exaggerating.
5. The 50 Cent of 2001 is the biggest rapper I've ever seen in any year ever. I don't think that year can be replicated, even 2009 Drake.
EDIT: I meant 2002-2003...sorry, I'm getting old.
More random thoughts to come...maybe
- and one of the interesting things about getting older is seeing the younger generation (can't believe I'm even using that term) debate about things that you actually lived through....I know there are a few of us here, so I wanted to jump this off by just telling the true events and feeling from our culture at the time they were actually happening (and everyone us that's my age or older jump in) - Ask us anything.
*90s kid/Early 00's teen/20s
1. Eminem was widely thought to be a clown, 1-hit wonderish type of rapper, until the "Dead Wrong" by Biggie dropped - when everyone heard Eminems verse it was like a bomb hit. Eminem went from clown white rapper to holy sh*t best verse ever like overnight. (Yea he battled and had a mini-rep but we didn't really have internet like that to even know)
2. Of course there was no social media, but if you did use computers or the internet, you were a super geek. I mean it was def cool to say "Computers?? I don't even know how to use those things"...If you were on SOHH you had to hide it. The internet was like a super-nerd thing to the "hood"...now we have Presidential Twitter Fingers and Social Media Beef. Crazy.
3. When Ether dropped it was like the world stopped spinning. Nas was like a joke for the year or 2 Jay-Z had been dissing him, and Jay-Z was media equivalent to what Drake is now. People like to argue that Nas never fell off, but he definitely had fallen way off in public eye..there was no internet forums for stans to congregate. That's why Ether hit so hard - no one expected it, and no one really dissed Jay-Z hard.
4. You could get shot and killed in a Biggie vs. Tupac argument in late 90s. People took it that serious, and I am not exaggerating.
5. The 50 Cent of 2001 is the biggest rapper I've ever seen in any year ever. I don't think that year can be replicated, even 2009 Drake.
EDIT: I meant 2002-2003...sorry, I'm getting old.
More random thoughts to come...maybe
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