When did this "get hype over tracklist" era start?

[L2014]

Look the name of the songs




I ain't heard it yet but "In the ass for the Homies" gon be lit











Music ain't even out yet and some folks be gettin all moist for 30 tracks of bullshyt



When did this happen?

 

[TransJenner]

I haven't felt this way about a track list in years FYM

 

[Taadow]

It started when rappers started putting out their track lists before the albums came out.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

It’s not so much about song titles as it is the features and producers

 

[swerve]

Tracklist hype is an art 50 has had huge problems with and never really realized.

He gots to have the most generic sounding tracklists of all superstar rappers

 

[Cladyclad]

It’s always been around. Anytime any albums track list leak. Speculation begun.

 

[PhonZhi]

This gotta be an internet/messageboard thing right?

Before the internet you simply went and copped the album .

All of this dissecting the album off the strength of a released tracklist wasn't happening .

 

[boskey]

The Black Album?

 

[Tayne]

The Black Album?

That’s what I was thinking. That ad listing out the 12 tracks / 12 producers

 

[L2014]

This gotta be an internet/messageboard thing right?

Before the internet you simply went and copped the album .

All of this dissecting the album off the strength of a released tracklist wasn't happening .

Thats what I was thinking. I can't remember people going into CD shops and buying the album because that tracklist was appealing. Maybe the album cover but not the tracklist. Its weird, that's too much blind faith.

 

[Bugsmoran]

Song titles didn't matter until Wu Tang came out

I remember reading song titles from Wu artist and being mad curious what the song would sound like

Titles like

Verbal intercourse
Duel of the iron mic
Night the earth cried
Winter warz
Apollo kids

 

[Lord Mecca]

It's hype for people who actually know the work of the artists/producers on the album. Ain't nobody drooling over a song title, if that's what you thought (@Bugsmoran with the exception of that case... you can't help but be curious them times)

I can't speak for this new generation though... anything gets their dikk hard.

 

[obarth]

Thats what I was thinking. I can't remember people going into CD shops and buying the album because that tracklist was appealing. Maybe the album cover but not the tracklist. Its weird, that's too much blind faith.

But copping albums off the basis of a hot single back in the day wasn't blind faith?

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

Track lists don't mean shyt

 

[Piff Perkins]

It started when rappers started putting out their track lists before the albums came out.

Been that way for awhile tho. Especially when you learned who produced what.