When was hip hops prime to you?

[ba'al]

2010-Currently anything before that is

 

[Bugsmoran]

86 - 96



In them 10 years u got everything u need when it comes to Hiphop

If u think about it... besides Melle Mel's The Message joint nothing really matters on wax before or after 86 - 96

It was all said and done in them years

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

Wayne era

 

[No Hook]

1989-2005

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

1988-2004

 

[I love Latina women]

88' to like 96'. 97' was the starting decline. Still some great moments but it was changing

 

[Lord Mecca]

I think '95/'96 is sort of where it peaked. The early 2000s had a lot of good hip-hop but it was just different by then. '96 is when everybody was still spittin that pain
Even the party music was fire. Listening to the radio wasn't a perilous mistake like it has been for the past 15 years.

The very minute it was cool to listen to hip-hop by kids in my age group... I knew it was a wrap.

 

[Vandelay]

96-06...

No coincidence, those are my teen to young adult years.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

1984 - 1997.

That covers the whole gamut from B-boys to Gangster/New Jack Swing to Conscious/Underground hip hop to the end of the Shiny Suit Era.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

If u think about it... besides Melle Mel's The Message joint nothing really matters on wax before or after 86 - 96

............you leaving out some iconic hip-hop pre-86, tho.......

1984.....

(this came out late '83)



1985.....





This is just a small sample. I could post a LOT more, but you get the idea, breh.​

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

97-98 easily

 

[TruDatz]

Biggie - Nas era

Biggie with the hits - Nas with the stuff that made you think

Still really haven’t had that feeling since then

 

[tkmc]

I think music is the soundtrack to peoples loves at the time...for me, it’s the mid 90s when I was in high school, college.

In 20 years, cats will think late 201x years was the shyt cause the were young, wilding out, etc.

 

[Bolzmark]

'85 - '88 (King of Rock, Raising Hell, Paid In Full, Follow The Leader, Radio, Bigger and Deffer, Long Live The Kane, Criminal Minded, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick,Strictly Business)

'93 - '96 (Enter the 36 Chambers, Midnight Marauders, Illmatic, It Was Written, Ready To Die, Reasonable Doubt, The Score, Doggystyle)

 

[JayBaldacci]

87-96