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

[Listen]

It’s definitely tied to how you experienced it, but 88-94 was fukking magical in hip hop and nothing like todays music.

Every single Tuesday there was someone new dropping something new with all sorts of different styles, beats, samples, lyrics, flows etc.

I’d buy A Low End Theory one week, and 36 Chambers the next brehs. Boogie Monsters, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Black Sheep, Common, Das Efx, Ice Cube, Nice and Smooth, GangStarr, Tha Pharcyde, The Liks....it was bananas, all new and fresh every time.

Golden age of creativity.

 

[Regular_P]

:PGucci:
We shytting on Paid in Full now? :PPicard:

Calling it a classic is shytting on it?

 

[_genocidecutter_]

I always wondered that

 

[DaveyDave]

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.

After seeing The Show back in 95 was when I started buying Run DMC cds and shyt, keeping an eye out for older stuff. No one else my age was doing that, it was Wu, Snoop, Pac and Bone for most kids I knew plus some outliers like BCC and OutKast even. NWA/Eazy-E was the gateway drug to this tap shyt for most kids where I grew up unless you had an older brother or something that was already listening to stuff.

 

[WhoShotCha]

It's getting lost because yall dont play it in yall homes. While I listen to new shyt, I always go back to the shyt I heard my people play over and over ( Pac, Nas, Kast, Face, ect). You actually have to introduce the new generation to the old shyt, they not gonna seek it on their own. It's too much music these days for dat.