Why do people act like rap before 1994 doesn't exist?

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Because 80s babies have a unique appreciation for the culture and equate their perspective w/ everyone elses (youngins). I'm old enough to remember "The Humpty Dance" when I was kid. I remember "Mama Said Knockout" or Tribe (early 90s shyt) gettin blasted at cookouts during my childhood. Witnessed the golden age of West Coast hip-hop (The Chronic...Snoop..Cube)...Pac and BIG...the birth of Wu....Mobb Deep..Pun...Nas..Bad Boy...X...Jay....50. The east coast golden era....

A lot of 90's artists we grew up on...paid homage to their 80s forefathers by shoutin em out or flipping their tracks...so we had a point of reference and knew of the Rakims or Kool G Raps.

The issue is...the bulk of rap fans from our generation equate the perception of what we've witnessed to what these lil nggas know and see today... which are 2 totally different things.

A lot of the earliest hip hop heads...basically abandoned the culture once it leftthe "hippity hop..." era whereas we grew up on the drugs...guns...violence aspect of rap. The content hasn't changed much from the 90s to now. Just the calibur and pedigree of artists....:scusthov:

Point is...the late 80s and early 90s was a long ass time ago...and might as well be the 50s and 60s to these young nggas now... Rakim might as well be Elvis status as far as their concerned. :dead:

whereas millennials and xers still equate that 80s shyt to....

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in our heads and shyt we grew up on which doesnt seem so far removed (but it is)...:manny:


The young Bois today came up seein Lil Jon and D4L as their Sugar Hill Gang...and everything thereafter...:scusthov:

Much hasn't changed since the south and Drake took over. These are young nggas points of reference and all they've ever known...:scust:

90s might as well be dead to them.

The point is.. hip hop (like rock before it) has grown.....:flabbynsick:
 
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Michael's Black Son said:
And what’s crazy is that all of that 1991-1998 shyt is still light years ahead of what came after it
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I'm sure there are people that feel that way about the 80's, which is why this thread exists. '88 is considered one of the greatest years in Hip Hop, but if we ran a poll on this site, most would vote 1994 as being better.
 
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Tommy Knocks said:
Them dry ass static ass beats don't knock in the whip. Drums be uncompressed unlayered with some clarinet and white noise looped in the background. Flow sounding like a sesame Street countdown :scust:
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this outside a few greats most of that era did not age well

I can still listen to Cube, Kane, Slick Rick and Ra but I wish to death some of their music could be remixed

but I still think it's blasphemy when people forget about cats like Cube and Ra to talk about a fukking Eminem in a top 5. Go slap your mother if you that stupid. Eminem doesn't have 1 album touching Eric B and Rakims shyts. or cubes first 2 solos.
 
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On whole i find those in my age group (early 30s) never went backwards as far as hip hop. Maybe 1/10 hip hop fans will imo. Maybe 3/10 of that age group even fukked with the 90s that we are speaking on.

When i found out rakim, slick rick, PE etc influenced biggie nas wu i checked their stuff and loved it.

Most people dont do that tho.
 
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Emeritus said:
this outside a few greats most of that era did not age well

I can still listen to Cube, Kane, Slick Rick and Ra but I wish to death some of their music could be remixed

but I still think it's blasphemy when people forget about cats like Cube and Ra to talk about a fukking Eminem in a top 5. Go slap your mother if you that stupid. Eminem doesn't have 1 album touching Eric B and Rakims shyts. or cubes first 2 solos.
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If you put this shyt on at party today you'd clear the dancefloor


Chief keef on fruity loops on a laptop making hotter bangers with faneto

Beats so hard got slim Jesus flow sounding legit
 
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UpAndComing said:
Kool G Rap is in my Top 3


And I was born in 1990 :yeshrug:
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oh ok you're definitely an anomaly

and i don't expect any millenials to put 80s or 70s rappers on their goat lists. not at all, i just want them to simply know who these artists are and maybe a few key records they did

not too much to ask :yeshrug:
 
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DANJ! said:
So realistically, people who only know about their era and nothing before it, should probably NOT be having "GOAT" conversations... cause in order to speak on "all-time", you gotta acknowledge "all-time". :manny:
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Dapping this wasn't enough. This irks me in general, and it goes for anything. How can you talk about Greatest of All Time anything when you aren't even aware of all the candidates? And you have people chime in on "Who/which is better, X or Y" questions who say, "Well, I don't know X, so I'll choose Y because that's the one I know."

Huh? If you don't know X and Y then how can you comment on which one is better? Most people should just stick to talking about favorites, since by definition that's only talking about what you've been exposed to. But, of course, they don't.
 
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These message boards have always been a trip. You never know WHO or WHAT the muthafukka is typing behind the keyboard.

A lotta misinformed non descript cats who were NEVER rap/hip hop fans from the muthafukkin jump. Wasn't even old enough to attend house parties. Never been to a fukkin show in they life. Couldn't get into a club, never watched rap videos on public access, never stood in line for a muthafukkin record or tape. Never ever even had a dope radio station in their city or country that even played hip hop....

You got new so called DJ's, bloggers, writers claiming to be authorities on rap music who don't even have any type of foundation or knowledge of this rap shyt. Lookin up albums on wiki, muthafukkaz started out as rock fans n shyt, grunge, pop records, justin bieber...this shyt is crazy....

Lost white muthafukkaz or others claiming to be black on here...Jet black muthafukkaz claiming "non pro black". Cats who just started listening to Drake tryna give a muthafukkin opinion on who's who in the rap game when some of us been in the turf from the jump...

Before PAC n Big and that East West shyt...Before Gucci, before Outkast was rockin Brave jerseys, before Eminem and Vanilla Ice....

Eat, breathe done lived this shyt...Done listened, copped, peeped and partied to damn near every hip hop record, cassette, CD ever printed.

West Coast, East, down South and beyond. No bias....Muthafukkaz forget about pre 94 because they were not there or wasn't in love with this shyt from the jump.

A Lotta late to the party muthafukkaz..that's okay tho...:mjpls:


Just stay outta rap discussion with them weightless ass opinions:sas2:
 
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