nikkas re-write history about the 90s. nikkas got called out just as much back then for trend following, and at times it was accurate.
Many examples of that of that. Speaking of your boy 2pac, he got called out for dikk riding Death Row when they got poppin. So it goes both ways, but i feel what you saying.
Rae & Ghost put the purple tape out and all of a sudden everybody had the mafioso style.
Dre came with Chronic and all of a sudden everybody was on some "blunted" shyt rapping over funk beats. Even Redman got called out for it during the Dare Iz A Darkside era, accurate or not and i love Reggie.
Biggie & Puff got called out for dikkriding Death Rows sound. When they came out 1992-93 their style was typical eastcoast timbo boots and hardcore style raps. By 1994 all of a sudden they looped funk samples & Biggies flow basically got called for riding Snoop's wave with the playa/pimp shyt & the smooth flow. Puff was Dre, and Big like Snoop.
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.
The same shyt happened then. But nikkas is like 18 tryna talk about the 90s just based on what they heard AFTERWARDS. Ask them now and they think 2pac and Biggie were literally gods
and seen as larger than life when they were around like they werent just 2 popular artists like others who caught heat, love & all too.