The "Jiggy Era" appreciation thread

[Kilgore Trout]

Spike Jonze brought this back in otis

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

People have to remember how shellshocked everyone was from Biggie and Pac getting clapped back to back

It was all about having fun and getting that shmoney

 

[Newportbox]

The Jiggy or shiny suit era got started up around the time Pac and Biggie were killed and it marked the end of Hip Hop's creative peak(87-96). You still had quite a few classics on majors but mainstream Hip Hop for the most part was trash while the underground was striving in the beginning and then, for the most part, became corny like the mainstream.

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IDK bruh No Limit had the platinum tanks... they were bamma jiggy... Cash Money too

You can't be Jiggy in Reebok Classics though........

 

[The War Report]

The Jiggy era is when shyt shirted becoming formulaic.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Hype Williams ate good off that era

Revisited this topic to say this.

Hype Williams paved the way for Little X in 01-05-ish.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Revisited this topic to say this.

Hype Williams paved the way for Little X in 01-05-ish.

X used to be hypes assistant.

Really good in a commercial way but never really found his style

 

[Yehuda]

"Is my body so right I could even attract a dyke?"

 

[TheRtist]

"Is my body so right I could even attract a dyke?"

GOAT era in hip-hop.

Videos were actually entertaining. Classics dropped left and right. Dance floors stayed packed.

 

[TheRtist]

Shabazz Palaces (Black Up is ), the Odd Future cats (especially Earl), Blu, Roc Marciano and Killer Mike are making great music in this era in spite of the "swag" (Shiny Suit equivalent) dominance in the mainstream. Kendrick is that "saviour" crossover artist who appeals to hip hop purists and the mainstream.

You stills haven't mentioned anyone who dropped a classic.


We got Ready To Die, Life Story, Harlem World & No Way Out in a span of 2 years from one label. None of those you mentioned have classics.