What was the 90's weird obsession with skits?

[Baka's Weird Case]

i despise them, but death row and wu tang had some decent ones

yeah sometimes the skits added to an album

but posters in here are overrating them

“they made the albums more cohesive”

that was just the good ones. most skits were lazy and filler

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Redman Muddy Waters Skits greatest of all-time don’t @ me

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Depending on the artists, they can fit seamlessly into an album with the theme and be entertaining. Stuff from Wu-Tang and Little Brother are the first ones I can think of. Big Krit too. 21 Savage had Morgan Freeman narrating his last album and it was great. Lil’ Flip at Teddy Long doing stuff on his album and it was . But outside of a handful of guys, they’re not really needed. I mean, would you really want to hear a skit from Migos, Lil’ Uzi, or Young Thug, despite them basically being real life Boondocks characters??

 

[Awesome Wells]

Prince Paul started that in the 80's.

And everyone started doing them after that. He was doing whole concepts with skits for those early De La projects. It was genius back then. But then MC's started doing them just to do them, throwing them in places where it was mad unnecessary and didn't even fit the sequencing of the album. It became a trend, like everything else in Hip Hop. People hop on what they see other dudes doing.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

anyone ever figure out why rappin 4 tay was the receptionist at No Limit?

 

[Carlton Banks]

lack of skits is one of the few things i appreciate about modern hip hop

Facts

 

[Pedro Negro]

My dumb ass best friend left the whole Biggie skit from the OG "One More Chance" on my answering machine () one time way back when and my mother was SO confused/upset

Mind you, I was like 12.

I came home from playing in the street like kids did in the 90's () and she was on my ass asking me who Stephanie was and where was she waiting and who robbed her?!?

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

used to love The Madd Rapper skits on Bad Boy albums

Heard him a few times recent, on Benny and Dave East songs

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

 

[Kaydigi]

Styles is back...

 

[DaHNIC82]

Skits were apart of many classic albums.. It brought a movie feel to it on certain albums as well as comedy relief . Fukk outta here with this trash thread

 

[bobbiewishbone]

Prince Paul started that in the 80's.

And everyone started doing them after that. He was doing whole concepts with skits for those early De La projects. It was genius back then. But then MC's started doing them just to do them, throwing them in places where it was mad unnecessary and didn't even fit the sequencing of the album. It became a trend, like everything else in Hip Hop. People hop on what they see other dudes doing.

On the Iron Mic Eagle podcast he said he had to use skits on De La Soul is Dead to add some levity to the album, otherwise the record was too mean spirited.

 

[Insensitive]

What's your favourite skits?

I'm so late.

lol.
There's too many to name breh.
At least off of the top of my head.

I think I made that post around the time I was cool off of TheColi.
I took a LONG break around that time.

 

[DaveyDave]

Or how about Gin & Juice where we gotta hear a nikka pissing in the beginning of the song every time we wanna replay it smh

I think the original release had all the skits as their own tracks. And then the remaster made it 13 tracks. Maybe it the other way around but Im sure I remember Doggystyle having 19 tracks on one of the cds I bought.

 

[Donny]

Skits gave the feeling you was really in the artists world listening to the album I was just playing Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the Love skit came on little things like was a huge part of what made Hip Hop so great rap is the only genre to include skits on their album shyts like a movie and that’s why GKMC and MBTF are probably some of the last truly classic albums they gave that movie feeling