When was hip hops prime to you?

[Love Sosa]

Im gonna say the late 90s. Album wise, 95-97 was phenomenal.

However the DMX, Jay, Lox, big pun, etc era had a level of lyricism that hasn't been touched since and doesn't get as much shine for some reason. the production and music vids were at a creative all time high.

 

[the cac mamba]

id say 95

 

[Trilogy]

95-96

 

[Ashtrey]

93 94 95

 

[ManBearPig]

92-96

Those are West Coast years but a shytload of East Coast albums came out between that time span too

 

[tuckgod]

'93-'96

 

[SouljaVoy]

1994-1997

But as time goes on I realize it's really 1990-2002

 

[Mr. Negative]

between here, 1993

and here, 1999

 

[Rigby.]

in my life time probably the early 10s/late 00s. Most of the best material from the best under 40 list came out in this span of time. From 2009 to 2012 you have a pretty incredible/innovative span of music

im thinkin a lil bit larger than just hip hop tho

 

[raoulduke187]

2000-2007 was pretty dope and I was old enough to remember it

the 90's are hip-hop's prime without any doubt tho

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

early 2000's>>>>

Every Region Was Poppin​

 

[Living Bait]

93-97

Doggystyle to The War Report

 

[Stick Up Kid]

1992-1996 death row, biggie, Wu, nas, tribe, naughty,krs, rakim, easy e, cube etc

1997 was the beginning of the end
Diddy, Mase, No Limit,

 

[OHSNAP!]

95-97 fa sho

 

[PhonZhi]

To me it was like 02-07 because I discovered the internet and underground acts. The mainstream was becoming trash but I discovered a whole shytload of non-mainstream artists.

Slum Village had a mainstream hit which introduced me to him, but I got into eLZhi real heavy around this time. (His underground work)

I discovered Little Brother and 9th would go on to become one of my all-time fav producers while Phonte' would become one of my all-time fav rappers. I was downloading a new 9th Wonder instrumental daily. Today, I have hundreds of 9th Wonder instrumentals that I listen to very often.

I also got into Joe Budden, Papoose, Joell Ortiz, Saigon, Blu, Termanology, Cory Guns, etc in this timeframe also. I was buying their albums and mixtapes faithfully.

Talib's "Quality", Blu's "Below the Heavens", LB's "Chittlin Circuit" & "The Minstrel Show" , Slum Villages "05" & "Slum Village" album were a few of my fav albums of the time.

Hip-hop was really good around this time, matter of fact, I was MOST into around this time period.