Ya'll remember when cassette tapes were the sh*t?!

[Why-Fi]

only thing that really used to blow me was it seemed like i could never catch the beginning of joints when i recorded off the radio...i mean NEVER

*click* but im the kane so yo, you know the outcome

 

[Theabbot]

Winding that tape was

Remember when you would wind the tape up with a pencil after it came out, and somehow, some fukking way, a part of the tape got flipped over backwards and got tangled up and shyt.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Remember when you would wind the tape up with a pencil after it came out, and somehow, some fukking way, a part of the tape got flipped over backwards and got tangled up and shyt.

I usually just gave up when this happen.

 

[Danie84]

Used to save up my allowance and buy a pack of these from Conway

My older brother had all those Flatbush dub tapes of Earth Ruler and Stone Love crew.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Life after Death on cassette

Nas Street Dreams single with The Firm on the B side

I miss those days

 

[Rapmastermind]

"I let my tape rock, till my tape pop" - Biggie
"Never put me in your box if your shyt eats tapes" - NaS

Yes, I am apart of the Cassette generation. It's so funny to me that kids are going to grow up and not even know what Cassette or VHS are. What's cool about being an 80's baby is we grew up still in the Vinyl era that transition to the cassette era that transition to the CD era that transition to the MP3 era. We litterally got to live damn near the entire musical transition in 20 years. But I loved tapes besides rewinding. I love how you could make mixtapes and they would be like your own little album. MP3 just can't do that, Mini disc could but your Ipod is just a collection of songs. I use to love to put certain songs in order on my tapes and mini disc. I actually still have my "Big Poppa" and "One More chance" Cassettes. It's amazing that "The Purple Tape" is a collector's item now. I don't know even though we've moved on, I'm happy to be apart of the cassette generation.

 

[god shamgod]

I remember Coppin the juicy single wit unbelievable on the b side

I copped the big poppa single despite already having the ready to die album just to get who shot ya on the b side

 

[Rakim Allah]

"I let my tape rock, till my tape pop" - Biggie
"Never put me in your box if your shyt eats tapes" - NaS

Yes, I am apart of the Cassette generation. It's so funny to me that kids are going to grow up and not even know what Cassette or VHS are. What's cool about being an 80's baby is we grew up still in the Vinyl era that transition to the cassette era that transition to the CD era that transition to the MP3 era. We litterally got to live damn near the entire musical transition in 20 years. But I loved tapes besides rewinding. I love how you could make mixtapes and they would be like your own little album. MP3 just can't do that, Mini disc could but your Ipod is just a collection of songs. I use to love to put certain songs in order on my tapes and mini disc. I actually still have my "Big Poppa" and "One More chance" Cassettes. It's amazing that "The Purple Tape" is a collector's item now. I don't know even though we've moved on, I'm happy to be apart of the cassette generation.

Never hated rewinding cuzz that's all I knew besides picking up the needle...like U said we saw Vinyl/tapes/cds/mp3...wasn't around for 8 track but worked in radio where in the late 90s/early 00s they used those 8 track tapes for certain drops and lazy DJs!!

 

[phatphuck]

those 120 minute joints were sick

 

[Karamellion]

I was one of the last cats hanging on to the cassette. Sheit, you can look up a thread from me back in '02 on asking if anybody was still coppin shyt on tape.

Them TDK and Maxell joints were the truth. Family were always getting me to dub copies, they'd give me a TDK and get a generic joint back on some.. what TDK? You gave me a $5 for 5 pack joints.

 

[raw613]

i remember 92q radio station in bmore, used to have rap attack every saturday morning i used to get up early to record that shyt on tape, put it in my walkman that day lol

 

[Doctor Wily]

Having to make the difficult choice of dubbing over a album or singlr cassette tape just to dub over it with something better.

I dubbed over the John Forte album with one side of stretch and bobbitto when they were briefly on hot 97 & the other side was a CD dub of the songs I was feeling off that queen pen album

 

[Danie84]

Remembers sitting at the radio for an eternity, waiting for that one particular song

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

Flipped it for you.

The walkmans I'd have with the flip switch would always fukk up over time and just start playing the side your listening to backwards when you flipped it. Sometimes I'd just check how certain songs sounded backwards.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

the bad thing about dubbin tapes is that if you leave it in the machine, chances are, somebody in the house is gonna pick it up, assuming that its theirs and it ends up in their chit.

theres a bunch of dubbed albums & radio tapes that i havnt heard in 10-20 years and are probably still in somebody else's collection.

I used to let my tape rock 'till my tape popped.

realest line in the history of hip-hop

fukk having a cheap Walkman with no rewind button, had to flip it over a d fast forward to get back to the start of the song

I HAD ONE OR TWO OF THOSE!!! i forgot all about that.