Maybe you were young?

Maybe it was just a fad?

It's just between Me and you......and Everyone else in the Lesson.

I was only 12 or 13, but I dug him.

>I was only 12 or 13, but I dug him.

Not to mention he had beats.

had a few cuts though

I think I only really liked one song "Who's Da Flava?". But I didn't cop the tape, cuz I could never find it at Strawberries or Sam Goody.

But I had that song a couple of self made mixtapes and played it in my walkman. I think it was around the same time as my Red Hot Lover Tone phase.

for some reason.
I was 14-15.

Also, Sage Francis... But I don't regret that one the same way though, because that dude can WRITE. But I was being influenced by the hip hop internet of the time.

It's just that back then, backpackers were the ones really dominating the forums and ANYTHING that was outside of the norm was championed as being so much smarter and better.

Same with Anticon.

Same wtih most of Def Jux. ESPECIALLY Cannibal Ox. I TRIED to like that shit. Cats STAYED raving up and down about how great the album was, but, I just couldn't get with the industrial beats.

Wonder where all those fans are today...

Kinda like how, back in the 90s how EVERYONE was a Bulls fan, and not because they like Jordan. THEY'D ALWAYS BEEN Bulls fans...

Can't find but a few nowadays.

got check ANY best of 00s list and thre cold vein is on their from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone, it's one YOU didn't get. we all have albums like that

>got check ANY best of 00s list and thre cold vein is on their
>from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone, it's one YOU didn't get. we
>all have albums like that

I just STILL can never get into that album. To me, it's that weird, out there hip hop that tends to mostly be praised by non-urban denizens. Which is why I brought it up when Anticon and Sage Francis came up, because, if my memory serves me right, they were all lauded the same amount of praise by those same media outlets.

And, my main beef is that, at one point, the only hip hop albums that got praise by those kinds of guys was either Jay and Kanye albums or REALLY underground stuff like the aforementioned artists.

It wasn't until Pitchfork saw a market for praising lesser known gangster rap artist that everyone else followed tow and started to actually listen to these albums with a different, more OPEN ear.

forming a whole separate sub genre of sorts of 'their own' style of what they call hip-hop.

Man i tired to give all that shit a honest listen..and I could NOT fuck with it at all..Im SO glad all that didnt stick.

I liked Aesop Rock in doses, but it seems like he started going more and more AWAY from that sub culture. El-P seemed to as well even though he's kind of the Godfather of that style, but it seem like he realized how asshole-ish that scene was and moved on too.

If I remember right didn't Murs put a nail in the coffin in that genre too with a song?

..."Music for the advancement of Hip-Hop" (LOL!!!) and that was also solely because of the internet and "everyone" there loving them and calling them the future and shit.

For me, it wasn't peer-pressure or any shit like that-I was too old for that-but rather me feeling I just HAD to hear them due to the hype and just felt the need to have an opinion (maybe that is some kind of peer-pressure). I didn't like it at all though so no regrets even if I could have bought beer for the money instead (=my other expense at the time)...

that'll ride for me" with DMX was AMAZING for like two weeks, smh!

When i really wanted drag-on to be there


I lost either way

i meant to say i stole it

Never heard any of his albums, so, can't really say if they were any good, but, dude could spit.

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"and suddenly the ghetto didnt seem so tough u thought u had it rough we always had enough"~tupac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqSdeuIYkM0

He just didn't provide.

i don't regret it though. a lot of fun times were had to that album.

That album was a loy of fun


Fuck these nose bleeding difficult rap fans telling me othewise

i hated when i had to put up w/ that damn record bc idiots i was riding w/ had shitty taste in rap

I actually gave it a spin about 6 months ago... it's STILL a lot of fun.

the bar.

i loved this shit tho... NEver let em see you sweat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRShhhoRawo


after this album, only other Nelly track i really liked was #1

this was when Quik's first album, which I loved, so I was like damm I guess his homeboys (weed carriers nowadays) got some dope shit too
copped their tapes...
WRONG! (c)
I can't even remember one track from them dudes now
AMG's Bitch Betta Have My Money was a Miami classic, and that's about it

than just those songs. Jiggable pie, If you want it, Be alright, and a few of their songs back then were dope. And Hi-C's album in 2003 was FIRE...Quik got the hell off on "Do it." AMG has made a few randomly good songs since Rhythmalism as well. Oh, and 2nd II None "Classic 220" had GREAAAAAAAT production on it...Quik murdered the whole shit, with "Up in da club" as the main single.

But yeah, I'd say 220 were pretty damn average. Hi-C and AMG were funny as hell, all personality really.

that first album is a personal classic. and i know we used to run the hell out of numerous tracks when i did college radio and parties. AMG and 2IINone to a smaller extent had legit fans out this way.

CD's.

One was half West Coast, with Mack 10, Ice Cube, Snoop, Quik, Suga Free, along with Outkast, DMX, Jay, Timbaland, a few more.

The other was.....................ALL NO LIMIT CD'S.

In 98, I actually felt "Da Last Don" might have been the greatest Rap CD of all time.

I even bought the Basketball compilation and the Lil Soldiers album.

I used to like you man.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvls6bu6f41qb3l9f.gif

>I even bought the Basketball compilation and the Lil Soldiers
>album.

That dude looked like he was THE WORST lol

But SOMEBODY was driving those albums to gold status every time around. I remember HELLA dudes that was buying every No Limit album. I think around that time it was one a month.

Dudes be having convenient amnesia nowadays.

I'm happy you're willing to admit to your sordid past...

...somebody from my hometown opened up a No Limit carwash. The stannery a grip of niggas had for NL was somethin' serious back in the day.




Since 1976

>...somebody from my hometown opened up a No Limit carwash.
>The stannery a grip of niggas had for NL was somethin' serious
>back in the day.
>
No Limit carwash!? Were they affiliated with th label?

...with the airbrushed sign and all. Mug wasn't the type where you would drive your car through the automated washer. It was the joint with a hose and cleaning supplies. Remember, I'm talking about the era niggas were jockin' No Limit at absurd levels, lol. Wasn't jack about that joint that was affiliated with P an'nem.





Since 1976

having a debate with someone whether No Limit or Cash Money was best label out....

At ALL times. Her bookbag had her big ass sports bra for PE, and every NL release to the date.

Why is Heather late on a random Tuesday? Because her parents took her to Blockbuster Music to cop new No Limit shit.

Niggas was buying that wack shit every two weeks. Outside of Mac, Fiend and Soulja Slim, they got no play from me.

...that didn't mess with NL too tough. They had joints here and there that I was feeling but for the most part, them niggas gots no play from me. You're right, though. As I pointed out a few posts up, niggas went cuckoo for NL. I'm wondering if they laced them cds with drugs as well, lol.



Since 1976

From What I Was Told? Soulja Life Mentality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQr4zf32N4


sad story.

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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

my boy Jmac was the same way. enwurd had all dem pen and pixel joints

I wrote off the label completely on the basis of Master P and Silkk the Shocker (oh yeah, the cover-art too!)...

However, I remember hearing a song by Young Bleed on the radio that wasn't too bad (don't remember which one) and Mia X was decent from what I remember.

Basically, there *might* be some gems on that label that I consiously avoided but I don't care enough to find out honestly...

>I wrote off the label completely on the basis of Master P and
>Silkk the Shocker (oh yeah, the cover-art too!)...
>
>However, I remember hearing a song by Young Bleed on the radio
>that wasn't too bad (don't remember which one) and Mia X was
>decent from what I remember.
>
>Basically, there *might* be some gems on that label that I
>consiously avoided but I don't care enough to find out
>honestly...

As was Fiend. Those are the only two from that label that I'd recommend to anybody.

Mac and Soulja Slim were dope too. I forgot about Young Bleed though. Dude is dope!

Bossalinie was my shit

I loved P, Da Last Don was the shit. that shit bangs. don't be ashamed of that one. I didn't buy anything outside of P, Snoop, C-Murder and a couple Tru albums.

i remember buying a No Limit CD and inside the liner booklet there'd be ads for 15 upcoming No Limit CDs


I did have that All Stars comp album too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMy-qxoI2bA

I still to this day never seen as much dedicated devotion from it's core fans than that time period, outside of 2Pac.

I admit I copped a couple of those multicolored, Pen & Pixel designed collections myself. Mystical, Fiend, Bleed were some good artist tho.

Whats crazy is damn near everybody was die hard No Limit then all of a sudden, a unorthodox bounce by one Mannie Fresh with Juvie talkin bout "Ha!?" crushed those buildings all the way down.

I was in my late teen early college phase where i thought lyrical skill= saying something *deep* on the mic


Shudder

'Ghetto Supastar' was revolutionary and anyone who told me 'Blue Angels' wasn't the best song ever made was clearly an imbecile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKbZRHLknQ

Listening to this again for the first time in YEARS was a weird experience - there's an in-built part of my brain that reverts to being a child again and can't help but enjoy it, despite everything the intervening years have taught me.

sorry, the name just reminded me of the song title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHxu-4aFkc

sike haha

Don't know if anyone remember them; it was Michael Franti's project before he went all "soulful" and "spiritual" with Spearhead. They did some industrial-meets PE-type beats with Franti rambling on top and got lots of hype in non-hip-hop circles (I don't remember the Hip-Hop media giving them much props at all). That was some bullshit in retrospect; nice "message" though.

I never dug Consolidated though, that's some kind of relief...

They were from the Bay so it got a lot of hype. Wasn't particularly good or anything, but I don't regret it.

>Don't know if anyone remember them; it was Michael Franti's
>project before he went all "soulful" and "spiritual" with
>Spearhead. They did some industrial-meets PE-type beats with
>Franti rambling on top and got lots of hype in non-hip-hop
>circles (I don't remember the Hip-Hop media giving them much
>props at all). That was some bullshit in retrospect; nice
>"message" though.
>
>I never dug Consolidated though, that's some kind of
>relief...

Shit...Disposable Heroes were pretty big in the Bay...They were actually pretty good live...

I remember listening to it once and giving it a shrug; have never heard it again since then. In retrospect that's weird because back then I was prone to like all kinds of hip hop or related stuff that was big-upped by alternative rock people: Basehead, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, etc. No idea why I wasn't into the Heroes, but I never revisited.

.

I believe it was at 12, I went and bought Juvenile's 400 DEGREEZ. I mostly bought it for "Back That Azz Up" and "Ha" but would listen to the full album. I use to play that album out. A couple years later i started getting even more into the OkayPlayer artists and was pretty much done with Cash Money, No Limit, and anything else like it by that point.

I also use to be a big DMX fan in middle school, but had lost interest in him as well by the time I started high school.

That's an important southern rap album though...I would not include Juvenile....

Prince Markie Dee, Dred Scott, Rappin 4 tay, Hi C, RIchie Rich, Celly Cell, Dru Down.

Mack 10. Krazie Bone, Monie Love, Yo, Yo

>Prince Markie Dee, Dred Scott, Rappin 4 tay, Hi C, RIchie
>Rich, Celly Cell, Dru Down.
>
>Mack 10. Krazie Bone, Monie Love, Yo, Yo

The stuff he did with Adriana was also good too.

Everyone else on there can get it, though.

I NEVER understood the allure of Mack 10. He always seemed second rate to me.

Food & Liquor? Modern classic, I said (fuck no).

Tried getting I Gotcha (fail) and the Everybody Nose Remix (success) played at parties.

Got Superstar used as a stinger for school broadcasts.

CRS?! AW MAN, this'll be a legendary supergroup. Can't WAIT for LupEND...

I knew something was wrong after my first playthrough of The Cool (Gold Watch and Paris, Tokyo still go, though). Pawned it off to a girl as a birthday present.

I knew it was a wrap the second I saw the NAME "Lasers".

I don't have an issue with his albums, with the exception of Lasers. That brotha lost my respect when he belittled the fuck out of the George Zimmerman acquittal and used it as an opportunity to attack his own people in a half-ass anti-intellectual manner.

He became mid-late 2000s Nas.

And his recent mixtape has about 3 bangers. But, he's another one of those artists that, if he actually stopped dumbing down his music and let go of his trap music crutch, he could be a force to be reckoned with.

dope shit on his mixtapes.

>dope shit on his mixtapes.

I know that when folks say drugs, they don't mean weed...

Although, I dont know if I regret enjoying his music as much as I regret following him after bad album after bad album

First album had great production though.


``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"king of rain." http://bit.ly/GNVnDp
"untitled 4." http://bit.ly/1772QTW
"doctor who nursery rhyme." http://bit.ly/18oC1gH
"1.5.2.0" http://bit.ly/18UMv7A
"for vini." http://bit.ly/19HQbtF

actually, I'm still kinda sorta into him. He's good for one dumb auto tune song and two good/great verses a year.


but when he did that 28 mixtapes in 28 days two or three Februarys ago I knew he was a cornball brother.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

I'm like, Zoe ain't got that kind of content to warrent 28 mixtapes. He REALLY shouldn't have done that. That much product in such a short period of time will DEFINITELY expose his weakness.

Kind of like Lil B.

The fact that a nigga threw 28 MIXTAPES in 28 DAYS out in the wind and not ONE song stuck? Damn...

an album it ain't even funny

He was my favorite rapper. I'd tell people he was (technically) better than Jay-Z, and that he deserved The Game's spot, even when I was in Game's camp I felt that way!

The early freestyles and guests verses I thought he was the best thing out then the album dropped and it was all downhill from there





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“We must become the change we want to see.” - Ghandi

>The early freestyles and guests verses I thought he was the
>best thing out then the album dropped and it was all downhill
>from there

I think it actually showed MAD potential. Would have rated it a B+. But, by the second and everything after that, it was all downhill. And, then, he just CONTINUED to make bad career and personal decisions.

An Eminem Stan album? Seriously?!

I didn't hear it when it came out but a few years later i got around to it. shit is tight, hype-nitus, how we roll, channel zero, get retarded, what's goin on, i honor u, how come. i could see why people didn't get into it, but you like his style shit was cool.

i remember only really liking buckingham palace

PM Dawn
MC Hammer
Dream Warriors
College Boyz
Me & My Cousin
G.Love & Special Sauce

Gangster's Paradise had him hot.


soundcloud.com/mictao

twitter.com/mictao

mic.tao.music@gmail.com

...fucking banging. I love like 90% of that shit

my friend mentioned how Coolio didn't have any other hits. had to remind him of Fantastic Voyage and See You When You Get There

i remember playing the shit outta Kinda High, Kinda Drunk

it wasnt a game.
i learned about the clash from the sample for Will 2 K.

i thought the MJ "working day and night" interpolation was hot.

that interlude where he raps with DJ Jazzy Jeff,
i thought they both killed it.



every corny line on the album, i thought it was hot.






anyway, i went back and listened to that album
after years of getting a crash course on hip hop from my roommate.
the album is unlistenable*


*noteable exception: "the rain," f/ Jill Scott is still awesome.
i still fuck with that record.

the rest is embarrassingly bad.

Since 1976

nuthin move but the money

got Hi-Tek's first album, loved it.
got RE, thought it was ok

figured out i dont like hearing this guy rap, at all

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“Floyd Mayweather should be taking fights up to 157 or 160 pounds...His frame can hold the weight..it's not even a lot of weight....Go to the gym and lift weights man..lol.”-- Warren Coolidge

has classics, but he'll put ANYTHING out

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“Floyd Mayweather should be taking fights up to 157 or 160 pounds...His frame can hold the weight..it's not even a lot of weight....Go to the gym and lift weights man..lol.”-- Warren Coolidge

isn't his strong suit.

"accidental racist".

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“Floyd Mayweather should be taking fights up to 157 or 160 pounds...His frame can hold the weight..it's not even a lot of weight....Go to the gym and lift weights man..lol.”-- Warren Coolidge

come to think of it, i still like that shit. haven't heard anything from him in years but that shit was funny.

Palmdale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjoOAuLGQoE

What if ft. E40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WH6vTj8kU

We would rap along to that whoooole shit

yeah he corny
and yes you outgrow him
but he aint the wackest cat out

i aint ashamed to tell somebody i used to listen to Kweli.

>yeah he corny
>and yes you outgrow him
>but he aint the wackest cat out
>
>i aint ashamed to tell somebody i used to listen to Kweli.
>

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Lately I've had the strangest feeling.... that you were GOOOONNNNEEEE

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Lately I've had the strangest feeling.... that you were GOOOONNNNEEEE

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Lately I've had the strangest feeling.... that you were GOOOONNNNEEEE

Not sure what I was hearing back then