The "shiny suit" era was a myth

[rantanamo]

Even had rock dudes jumping on the bandwagon

LOL, I remember workin with these white dudes in the summer that loved this song and video. I would watch just for that hispanic chick and the black chick in the front. That little pump they both do @ 3:43 had me

But just in case you don't believe this was a wide spread movement

http://www.complex.com/style/2012/09/the-best-shiny-suits-of-the-shiny-suit-era/

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Why do nikkas try to rewrite history, the shiny suit era was real, that shyt was huge, and it was needed, just like the gangsta rap era doesnt negate that a huge afrocentric/jazzy sound was going on, the shiny suit era doesn't mean other hip hop wasnt dropping and just as influential

 

[patscorpio]

Yeah...the shiny suits were just something visual easily associated to the whole "big willy-ism...flossy rap" thing going on at the time...and it definitely wasn't a myth...you can't dismiss the entirety of Bad Boy (the Lox and Big were doing the shyt right along with Puff and Mase) and Jay-Z and even Hate Me Now era Nas like they weren't titans in that scene and largely defining the times...

that whole vibe and aesthetic to a large part dominated mainstream east coast late 90's rap, to the point that you had random tough guy thug rappers like Mic Gerimono going from this:




to this

this was a disgrace...this shyt killed mic g's career even though that song was his highest charting song evert

 

[Danie84]

The shiny suit phase affected everyone except for the W

 

[IllmaticDelta]

NaS
R. Kelly
will smith
112
Total
Biggie

And while it was mostly a bad boy thing,they had shyt on lock so they defined that era. Also the flossing in there lyrics was influencing others even if they didn't rock those suits.

This is what really paved the way for the Southern takeover

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The shiny suit phase affected everyone except for the W

I actually never realized this

 

[CrimsonTider]

How are you arguing the shiny suit sound didn't define an era?

 

[ISO]

Well the bolded is an entirely different argument completely, and if you wanted to make a "back in the day was these day it's " thread you should've just went ahead and made it (as it stands in this thread, it's just a strawman)...but it's pretty much impossible to say the "Shiny Suit Era" was a myth...you say it's a "handful of artists" like they weren't the biggest artists in all of east coast rap and didn't have massive influence on the rest of the game Big, Mase and Puff went 20xPlatinum off of 3 albums in the span of 2 years...Mic wasn't the only one that switched up trying to fit into their steez...already mentioned Jay and Nas doing it...Big Pun, a 400 pound 5'4 dude was putting out "I'm tired of being such a fly player" songs with rnb singers on the hook for singles trying to tap into the sound of the times...it was by far the preeminent force in mainstream East Coast for a period of time...there was other stuff going on, but the "Shiny Suit Era" being a myth because there were other trends existing at the same time is like saying the West Coast Gangsta Rap Era was a myth because Tribe was putting out albums in the early 90's too

Pun was 6 feet and could dunk in his younger days...

 

[Take_Note]

love that era in music

 

[Drew Wonder]

if the shiny suit era was a myth, then what was RZA complaining about here?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

if the shiny suit era was a myth, then what was RZA complaining about here?

Cant see the vid but prob the same shyt Common was crying about on "I Used to Love H.E.R." or whatever Ghost was crying about on the "Shark Biters" skit.

nikkas just love to complain about shyt even if it's not necessarily true, myself included :scumbag:

 

[beenz]

Yeah...the shiny suits were just something visual easily associated to the whole "big willy-ism...flossy rap" thing going on at the time...and it definitely wasn't a myth...you can't dismiss the entirety of Bad Boy (the Lox and Big were doing the shyt right along with Puff and Mase) and Jay-Z and even Hate Me Now era Nas like they weren't titans in that scene and largely defining the times...

that whole vibe and aesthetic to a large part dominated mainstream east coast late 90's rap, to the point that you had random tough guy thug rappers like Mic Gerimono going from this:




to this

yeah that was there. mic geronimo was the LAST cat I was expecting to go to the shiny suit route.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

if the shiny suit era was a myth, then what was RZA complaining about here?

the lyrical themes of the the shiny suit/bad boy era is what allowed stuff like this to blowup from the South

 

[beenz]

the fukked up thing about the mic geronimo video, is that the remix for the song is actually hard with black rob and dmx,.

 

[IllmaticDelta]