This Woodstock 99 doc on HBO is wild

[Mastamimd]

It hurt me to see how old the Offspring now look. I was legit hurt, I know I’m youthful for my forties but I pray my fifties won’t hit me like that. Yikes.

They're mid to late 50s but Noodles was looking older like twenty years ago iirc...he already started growing grey hair. But they still look beyond

 

[WonderCheeks]

They're mid to late 50s but Noodles was looking older like twenty years ago iirc...he already started growing grey hair. But they still look beyond

Jesus, my boyfriend laughed because I put down my bowl of Blue Bell. SMH.

 

[WonderCheeks]

Really surprised Eminems didnt perform...



shiit woulda been too wyld.



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He wasn’t that big until the fall of 99/early 2000.

 

[WonderCheeks]

Sevendust at Woodstock 99



Sevendust now

I used to love them! Lajon could have had me on a cracker.

I wish more of the alternative and grunge groups with black leads had more shine back then. I remember getting called a white girl all of the time because I loved bands like Sevendust, Bad Brains, anything coming out of England, too. I have only listened to R&B, Rock, and Reggae since I was a pre-teen. I couldn’t relate to most rappers, I grew up in a rough environment and didn’t understand celebrating the life our parents didn’t want for us.

 

[WonderCheeks]

i remember you were getting clowned on sight if you listened to Britney, backstreet boys, spice girls in that era lol etc
but the radio kept playing "baby one more time" by Britney. Like 10 times per hour

also 1999 this dropped



wow that era was amazing every music genre at its peak
pop
hiphop
rock

fred

That entire Santana album was my shyt! If I hear Smooth now I have to do my white girl grind, move my hands up and down my body, and throw my hair around. I heard it in Costco and joined my middle aged peers in singing along.

 

[DonDadda]

at least cacs had their own music genre back then that aligned with their degenerate ways, now they've just latched onto hip hop

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

Everything you said was wrong. Woodstock '94 had a bunch of hip-hop artists. DMX performance was always pretty noteworthy and MTV did show it... and Woodstock '99 was wall to wall coverage on MTV that whole weekend and then the aftermath that followed...

MTV was the biggest thing on cable. TRL was the highest rated daytime program. The MTV video awards were more popular than any awards show outside of the Oscars.

I cosign the previous poster, and no, you're wrong. X didn't get any clout, within the hip-hop community, for that Woodstock performance. It was "BIG" on MTV, for cacs, but nggas weren't checkin for that shyt. Woodstock was a KNOWN white ppl event/spectacle. 99' Woodstock wasn't as revered as 94' Woodstock either, featuring the apex of grunge music (which wasn't as revered as the original).


Although his performance was big (it's X in his prime), it wasn't as iconic as it appears today. I'd argue his performance at the Apollo, was more iconic than that shyt.



Ngga brought up TRL...
Biggest show on cable, according to who?

Everyone I know was watchin Rap City. You might tune into TRL once in a blue, when Jay or someone would drop a premiere.

 

[Drew Wonder]

The feminist angle was fukking terrible.

Newsflash Cacs are violent by nature. I didn't need a doc to tell me that.

Women got sexually assaulted at the concert and the doc said women got sexually assaulted at the concert. Not everything is an "angle" or "agenda"

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I cosign the previous poster, and no you're wrong. X didn't get any clout, within the hip-hop community

There's a thread on here from 2014 discussing X's performance there. it's always been a thing. it was discussed on SOHH too..

 

[Drew Wonder]

There's a thread on here from 2014 discussing X's performance there. it's always been a thing. it was discussed on SOHH too..

Ya'll are both right. X at Woodstock was a big deal as far as expanding his audience to a more rock/mainstream crowd. But it meant little to the hip hop community. But X is often namedropped by people who say "I don't listen to a lot of rap but I love ____" and the Woodstock performance was a big reason why.

 

[50CentStan]

Women got sexually assaulted at the concert and the doc said women got sexually assaulted at the concert. Not everything is an "angle" or "agenda"

Yea, but this doc absolutely had a feminist angle.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

I'll watch.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Yea, but this doc absolutely had a feminist angle.

How so?

 

[3rd Koast Kang]

Finished this yesterday

the levels of disgust

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

Amazing doc going to watch summer of soul now