...when I came on the internet in the mid-90's. I couldn't relate at all as a swede who had barely heard Freestyle Fellowship and was "still" digging regular stuff but the "cool" thing then in those collegiate Hip-Hop circles was rappers who had intricate wordplay and "clever" punchlines and multi-syllable flows. I remember people going crazy over J-treds saying "I got more presence than attendants in a class of scizophrenics" like "that is SO dope" and Canibus was extremely cool for a while before the Wyclef-fiasco with his debut. Meanwhile, rappers like Guru was pushed to the side and even considered wack with people saying that Primo was the only reason people cared which Bombastic eloquently explained above wasn't true.

People acted retarded in that era, saying that guys in Mystik Journeymen or isionaries were better than Guru... *SMH*