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

[DoomzdayzV]

LL got called out twice actually. 1993 when they felt he tried to switch up to that hardcore shyt like Wu-Tang, Death Row etc. Then like you said once Wu had more shyt out & with Rae & Ghost purple tape? He sounded like he tried to make up cool lingo when he rapped like Wu did.

Im reading this and laughing my ass off. Yeah LL was definitely on some shyt like the white dad from American Pie "Hey kids...look, Im hip. Im cool....right?" 14 Shots era LL was embarassing.

edit: dude was only 23 but already a fossil in the game

 

[Danie84]

When CD booklets promoted albums that never saw the day of light

 

[DoomzdayzV]

Hated when CD booklets promoted albums that never saw the day of light

remember the War Report cd jacket "Coming soon from Penalty Records" sheet? It was like 25 different albums that never dropped....from E Moneybags to Maze and Muzzolini

 

[1-8-7-Skillz]

When CD booklets promoted albums that never saw the day of light

Those old no limit booklets

 

[mobbinfms]

Those old no limit booklets

99% of those albums dropped though

 

[mobbinfms]

other coasts always complaining about regional bias blah blah blah. But let's keep it 1 fukking hundred. Were other coasts dropping albums as brilliant as Illmatic, Ready To Die, Cuban Linx, Infamous, Liquid Swords, Dah Shinin, Main Ingredient back to back?

Breh really?

I don't agree with every album he listed. But his point is correct at least with regard to the South. Which I continue to contend does not have a single true GOAT album contender.
@SirBiatch you dead wrong about the west though.

 

[the cac mamba]

I don't get the Wu and Pete & CL connection at all. Explain it slowly and without big words breh.

yeah @KravenMorehead™ curious too. had to go revisit this classic fukkin beat



whats this have to do with the wu?

 

[SirBiatch]

Breh really?

I'm being serious. I got love for the other coasts too. I really need receipts on this

 

[Mr. Negative]

remember the War Report cd jacket "Coming soon from Penalty Records" sheet? It was like 25 different albums that never dropped....from E Moneybags to Maze and Muzzolini

that E Money Bags shyt had him in some cheezy pic with like sunglasses on and some shyt, right. It looked like a G Rap cover from the 80s.


But I swear that Maze and Moose album didnt drop cause one of them got killed. I could be wrong. All my knowledge came from hip hop mags back then cause the internet wasn't invented yet.


And No Limit was HORRIBLE for this shyt, too. It seemed like the last No Limit CD I bought (Charge It 2 Tha Game) had a 9 page fold out full of albums. 2 pages full of albums that never dropped. And that 504 Boyz album that was supposed to be Silkk and Mystikal wound up having different nikkas photoshopped into the promo art every month.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I never liked the whole mafiaso thing. glorifying italian mob culture. even though some classic music came out of that era it never really sat well with me

Add the blatant plagerizing of the Scarface movie.

Some of them clothes in the 90s tho...daam

 

[DoomzdayzV]

I'm being serious. I got love for the other coasts too. I really need receipts on this

yeah I hear u. Southern hiphop is like Feminism to me. Their chest has been so pumped full of air over the last 10 years that they think they have been equal all along. Nah.....your ass still belongs in the damn kitchen.

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

@mobbinfms you don't think the South has a contender?

ATLiens, Aquemini, Southernplayalistic (less so), Soul Food, The Diary (less so). Idk if there are more, nothing comes to mind. But everyone can agree the East has the lions share of classics and GOAT contenders.

ATLiens is a top 10 album OAT imo

 

[Mr. Negative]

other coasts always complaining about regional bias blah blah blah. But let's keep it 1 fukking hundred. Were other coasts dropping albums as brilliant as Illmatic, Ready To Die, Cuban Linx, Infamous, Liquid Swords, Dah Shinin, Main Ingredient back to back?

I don't agree with every album he listed. But his point is correct at least with regard to the South. Which I continue to contend does not have a single true GOAT album contender.
@SirBiatch you dead wrong about the west though.

Even me being from the deep DEEP south, I kinda agree.

I mean, I tried to think of some albums and defend Da Souf, but really.... I can't think of many southern albums that made me go " Holy shyt this is a masterpiece" from the mid 90s.

SouthernPlayalistic, ATLiens, Soul Food. Lotta other stuff was on the verrrrge or slipped through the cracks of nationwide recognition.

I dunno. Some arguments can be made about impact and all that, Not really anything else I'd classify as classic without being nostalgia'ed by my " look yall I'm a gangsta too" phase. Plenty of great singles. Nothing nationwide, though.

 

[mobbinfms]

@mobbinfms you don't think the South has a contender?

ATLiens, Aquemini, Southernplayalistic (less so), Soul Food, The Diary (less so). Idk if there are more, nothing comes to mind. But everyone can agree the East has the lions share of classics and GOAT contenders.

ATLiens is a top 10 album OAT imo

I think all those albums are classics (Soul Food maybe not). But not GOAT contenders. They just aren't in the conversation with Illmatic, Paid in Full, Chronic, It Takes a Nation, etc.
I think The Diary and Atliens are the closest based on consensus (which is all that matters for this type of thing).

 

[Mr. Negative]

@mobbinfms you don't think the South has a contender?

ATLiens, Aquemini, Southernplayalistic (less so), Soul Food, The Diary (less so). Idk if there are more, nothing comes to mind. But everyone can agree the East has the lions share of classics and GOAT contenders.

ATLiens is a top 10 album OAT imo

and even as readers can see....


SouthernPlayalistic Aquemini.


Though I'll freely admit, more people will go with Aquemini.



ATLiens, though, all you south classic naysayers.