Things About 90's Hip Hop You Didn't Like?

[Taadow]

west coast cats stay sleeping on some of their best albums and instead prop up wack ass nikkas like brotha lynch hung

This chit right here. This muthafuccin' chit right here.

The "you should like ____ because _____."

That's the worst chit about the 90s, mayne.

Get your hand out my pocket, niccas.

 

[feelosofer]

I didn't care for over the top cartoonish gagnsta rap.

 

[Prince Mongo]

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[Prince Mongo]

no breh. Let's keep it 1000. Those albums ARE NOT on the same level of Illmatic, Cuban Linx, Infamous, etc. that I already mentioned.

Each of those albums have a couple cool tracks. But nothing, over the course of the entire album, that makes you go HOLY shyt: these beats are next-level incredible and these rhymes are next-level incredible.



talk about ignorance then act like OB4CL doesn't belong in the all-time great album convo

Each album he listed is just as quality and significant, if not more so, than OB4CL. You'd have to be from the south, and specifically Memphis for 8ball & MJG and 3-6, to fully grasp their impact. As a Memphis nikka I could say that Playa Fly's Fly shyt and Moving On are in the same league. Its a regional thing

 

[H.I.M.]

Each album he listed is just as quality and significant, if not more so, than OB4CL. You'd have to be from the south, and specifically Memphis for 8ball & MJG and 3-6, to fully grasp their impact. As a Memphis nikka I could say that Playa Fly's Fly shyt and Moving On are in the same league. Its a regional thing

Don't put the east coast (or the south for that matter) into a box breh. I'm from DC born & raised (gotta lotta fam out in the M tho) and shyt like Ball & G and 3-6 had the streets on absolute smash in the late 90's early 2000's...UGK too. Ain't a whole lot of nikkas up here that knew about Fly...but i've honestly ran into more people up here that did than fukked with that wutang shyt.

And some of this local NY shyt these canadians & caucasians in this thread are naming i've never even heard of..."jeru" fukk is this shyt?

 

[mobbinfms]

Each album he listed is just as quality and significant, if not more so, than OB4CL. You'd have to be from the south, and specifically Memphis for 8ball & MJG and 3-6, to fully grasp their impact. As a Memphis nikka I could say that Playa Fly's Fly shyt and Moving On are in the same league. Its a regional thing

This actually makes sense to me. Nobody is saying those records or artists aren't legendary in your neck of the woods.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

this guy has the audacity to put brotha lynch hung on this list but neglects Freestyle Fellowship - To Whom It May Concern

west coast cats stay sleeping on some of their best albums and instead prop up wack ass nikkas like brotha lynch hung

You smokin rocks. nikkaz don't fuvk with no wack ass freestyle fellowship

Lynch is a west coast legend

 

[Ronnie Lott]

I hate that everyone says Jay bit Biggies flow from back then but to me Jadakiss sounds more like Biggie than anybody else.

I hate how people put Pac on a pedestal lile he is this revolutionary save blacks God when he's the reason we have more gangster rappers sagging.etc. 90% of the time he was on some ride on my enemies biz.

Dumbest post in this thread

 

[Ronnie Lott]

That's right. The O.G.'s from my old hood Randolph Street, Lakeview, SF made "Stressed Out" and "Tell Me Something Good" on that West Coast Bad Boyz Vol I. West Coast Bad Boyz Vol II was also a classic and they represented again on "Roll Yo Vogues".

UNLV, imp, cellski, cougnut, bald head Ric, swoop

 

[mobbinfms]

UNLV, imp, cellski, cougnut, bald head Ric, swoop

 

[NasirJr]

Not sure if anyones mentioned it but all the fukking sex interludes . Breh im not trying to hear you fukk a bytch in the middle of vibing to the album

 

[Nostalgic]

That cheap keyboard sound that was ushered in the late 90's

Huh?, Show me some examples.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Heavy D and Hammer had background dancers in their videos before puff was puff.

Puff actually started out as q background dancer.

 

[Awesome Wells]

I didn't like the whole "Real Hip Hop vs Hater Player" thing that started going on.

Rappers taking pride in being "underground" complaining about rappers pretending to be rich....

This was another thing I didn't like.

I always thought this was corny. It was like the underground turned into a community of complainers. Hip Hop's always had MC's who spoke about the good life or whatever. Some of Hip Hop's best MC's ever did that, so I never understood why dudes started making songs complaining about it. Or why it become the thing to say that that wasn't "real Hip Hop". Dudes really got in the habit of separating the culture, and that was a bad move.

 

[Scoop]

Production has improved significantly from the 90's.

90's is the most overrated era. It was the first full decade we really had hip hop. There will always be nostalgia for it.

There were plenty of terrible rappers in the 90's, but they weren't who was popular. Now a lot of the bad rappers are popular while Run the Jewels, who would've been "legends" had they dropped in the 90's, sell like 12K first week. I think that makes people think this era is worse when really it's just what's popular got worse.

There's only about 10 albums from the 90's I spin anymore.