Midnight Marauders, 36 Chambers, Buhloone Mind State, Doggystyle, 93 'til Infinity, No Need for Alarm, Get In Where You Fit In, illmatic, Hard to Earn, Southernplayalistic..., The Sun Rises In the East, Fear Itself. That's all I can remember off top.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader
Dilla - V2: Vintage
Viktor - Vaudeville Villain
Jay - Black Album
Lil Bro - Listening
T.I. - Trap Muzik
Speakerboxx/TLB
Get Rich or Die Tryin!!!!!!!!!!!
Southerunderground
Diplomatic Immunity
Beg for Mercy
Shadows on the Sun
Da Drought 1!!!!!!
Philly Freeway
Killer Mike Monster

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Philly Freeway too

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas
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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

You was ballin'!

bought myself a PS2 with Smuggler's Run on release night, then an iPod when that dropped.

man iPods were bad news though. I went through like four in HS, I spent a lot of what little money I had on those things. pretty sure that first one went through a washer and dryer.

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas
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All my money in high school went to Burger King. You was a smarter man than me.

It was a good year for me: College Dropout, The Grind Date, Tipping Point, Tha Carter, Long Hot Summer, Connected, Madvillainy, Viktor Vaughn-Venomous Villain, MURS 316, Jean Grae-This Week, The Black Album, Conversations With Dudley, True Notes Vol.1, MM Food, Joyful Rebellion

BUT, I remember bumping College Dropout & Get Rich Or Die Trying non-stop pretty much the whole year on my iPod.

I remember seeing something on KTLA9 about Shaq buying iPods for everyone on the Lakers...when they explained that shit? you could hold how much music on it? I saved up birthday $, Christmas gift cards, & birthday $ from my next year to get myself one.

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He has the confidence of Vernon Maxwell on a yayo binge.

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Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Busta Rhymes - Genesis
Nas - Stillmatic
Truth Hurts - Truthfully Speaking
Luda - Word of Mouf
Fabolous - Ghetto Fabolous
Outkast - Greatest Hits

1) Now I feel old as shit
2) What a great year for rap music

Notorious B.I.G. "Life After Death"
2Pac Makaveli album
DJ Shadow "Entroducing"
Mobb Deep "Hell On Earth"
Wu-Tang Clan "Wu-Tang Forever"
Ghostface Killah "Ironman"
Redman "Muddy Waters"
Camp Lo "Uptown Saturday Night"
KRS-One "I Got Next"
Scarface "The Untouchable"
The Roots "Illadelph Halflife"
Beatnuts "Stone Crazy"
CNN "The War Report"
M.O.P. "Firing Squad"
Keith Murray "Enigma"
O.G.C. "Da Storm"
High School High OST
Xzibit "At the Speed Of Life" (wasn't up on him until next CD tho)
Wyclef Jean "The Carnival"
Artifacts "That's Them"
Jeru The Damaja "Wrath of the Math"
DJ Muggs Presents Soul Assassins Vol. 1 (bumped this one HARD)
Westside Connection "Bow Down" (also played the shit out of this)
Twista "Adrenaline Rush"

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OL' DIRTY BASTARD on himself:
"I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.

Whitesnake, "Whitesnake"
George Michael, "Faith"
Tiffany, "Tiffany"
Richard Marx, "Richard Marx"
Exposé, "Exposure"
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, "Spanish Fly"
Cinderella, "Night Songs"

nice

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whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me

he was everywhere if u watched mtv or listened to pop radio, both of which i did heavily at the time

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whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me

>

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whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Between those, Black Moon, Onyx, Snoop's Doggstyle, shit. Started off high school real well.

I remember for my birthday that summer my mom got me that Sony auto-reverse walkman. Best believe I had a rack of tapes on me going to high school

Aquemini
N.O.R.E.
400 Degreez
It's Dark, and Hell Is Hot & Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
Capital Punishment
Black Star
Moment of Truth
Miseducation...
I Am...
Black On Both Sides
Slim Shady LP
2001
Things Fall Apart
Hov - Vol. 3
Missy - Da Real World

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

Ruff Ryders Vol. 1
JD - Life In 1472
112 - Room 112
Biggie - Born Again
R. Kelly - R.
Puffy - Forever
Mase - Double Up

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Gang Starr / Nujabes blend - https://youtu.be/lsci1vu6ick
DOOM Tribute - https://youtu.be/qmBQ2BDefKM
Donut of the Heart cover in Javascript - https://youtu.be/afLc2CkC8lk

Blueprint 2/Blueprint 2.1
Lost Tapes
God's Son (maybe had more impact on me than any album ever. I lost my mom the year before and this was the soundtrack for this whole year)
I Phantom
Diplomatic Immunity
Get Rich Or Die Tryin (never loved this album, always thought the Massacre was better)
Philadelphia Freeway
Phrenology
Electric Circus (never got into this)
Snoop Dogg - Paid the Cost to be Da Boss (Beautiful!)
Gang Starr - The Ownerz (came out right after school finished up)
K-Os - Exit (I don't know when this came out but I bought it the same day as the Ownerz)

random songs:
Ras Kass - Catch Me If You Can (I remember he came out with this...he was on the run for a month or two which let to the first jail stint. He also had the freestyle over the Dipset song which was sick)
Alchemist/Twin - Different Worlds (final version didn't come out until I think two years later but I distinctly remember this song with the original beat at this time)

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America - Kurtis Blow
Back to the old school - Just-Ice
Big and Beautiful - Fat Boys

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thats them
chopper city
equinox
ghetto millionaire
mood doom
the pick sickle shovel
soul assassins vol 1
the war report
jewelz
hatred passions...
when disaster strikes
back in business
funcrusher plus
life after death
wu forever
in my lifetime vol 1
uptown saturday night
soundbombing 1
likwidation


98
aquemini
don cartagena
3rd eye vision
slam soundtrack
capital punishment
moment of truth
heavy mental
black star
vol 2 hnl
first fam 4 life
hello nasty
bobby digital

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

96-97 was a good year too but after pac and biggie it basically got stamped as the year of puff. i remember my first biology test kicked my ass and i went out and bought "one day it will all make sense." summer ended with miseducation.

but we did get deja vu in the winter. i'll always love deja vu.

destiny's child and usher broke but the year before was better for r&b. rock and pop were weird

first I'll mention Naughty by Nature since the whole world was wearing OPP T Shirts on the 1st day of Freshman year

also mentioning A Future w/o a Past as it stayed in my walkman well into 92 even tho it came out b4 school started

Low End Theory
Death Certificate
A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing
Apocalypse 91
Mecca
Daily Operation
Sex & Violence
Return of the Funky Man
Dead Serioys
FU Dont take it Personal
Fabulous Chi Ali
Totally Krossed Out

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whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me

i would hear that song every morning on the radio when waking up for school

As far as hip-hop goes...

The Blueprint
Stillmatic
Come Home With Me
Ghetto Fabolous
Word Of Mouf
Eminem Show
Iron Flag
Expansion Team
Bulletproof Wallets
The Realness
Disposable Arts
I'm Serious
State Property Soundtrack
Bulletproof Wallets
Watermelon Chicken & Gritz
Pain Is Love
Kiss Tha Game Goodbye

I remember riding my bike to get Blueprint the Saturday after 9/11. Bought Stillmatic over X-Mas break and LOVED it. Listened to that shit while playing Gamecube and eating george foreman cheeseburgers all break lol

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Yes Yes Y'all

First of all, I was still bumping D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It Better" and BDP's "Ghetto Music," even though both dropped the summer before school. And even though it dropped in the summer, I got up on EPMD's "Unfinished Business" album a little late. Like in December or so.

Other than that, I spent that school year bumping, in vague chrnological order:

Ice-T - The Iceberg
Donald-D - Notorious
Sir Mix A Lot - Seminar
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
MC Lyte - Eyes on This
Queen Latifah - All Hail to the Queen
Above the Law - Livin Like Hustlers
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect

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>First of all, I was still bumping D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It
>Better" and BDP's "Ghetto Music," even though both dropped
>the summer before school. And even though it dropped in the
>summer, I got up on EPMD's "Unfinished Business" album a
>little late. Like in December or so.
>
>Other than that, I spent that school year bumping, in vague
>chrnological order:
>
>Ice-T - The Iceberg
>Donald-D - Notorious
>Sir Mix A Lot - Seminar
>Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
>3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
>MC Lyte - Eyes on This
>Queen Latifah - All Hail to the Queen
>Above the Law - Livin Like Hustlers
>Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
>Digital Underground - Sex Packets
>Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
>Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect

Damn I remember this....also my freshmen year....

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nas-it was written, heltah skeltah-nocturnal,redman-muddy waters,
lil'kim hardcore, foxy brown-ill nana, basically anything that came out in '96.

The Infamous
Purple Tape
Do You Want More?
Dah Shinin
Big L
LabcabinCalifornia
Temple of Boom

OutKast - Stankonia
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Radiohead - Kid A
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswanaseing
Jay-Z - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
N*E*R*D - In Search Of... (UK version... it wasn't *released* while i was in my freshmen year, but they had the whole album up online and i got a rip on cd during my freshman year, so i'm counting it)
Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Ruff Ryders - Ryde or Die Vol. 2
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
St. Germain - Tourist
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
The White Stripes - De Stijl
D12 - Devils Night
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Usher - 8701
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Straight Outta Compton
Long Live the Kane
...And Justice for All
Don't Be Cruel
Born to Be Wild
G N' R Lies
Just Coolin'
Strictly Business
Giving You the Best That I Got
Follow the Leader
Critical Beatdown
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Knowledge Is King
Lōc-ed After Dark
Youngest in Charge
Raw Like Sushi
Electric Youth
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Spike

*School went from June to July, September to May

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"Come to your house like a check from Columbia House."

92-93

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you forgot some shit too

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>you're like the most known unknown poster
- Mr. Buildingblock

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

Too Short - Born to Mack

Steady B - Bring the Beat Back (play the living shit out of this tape)

Skinny Boys - Weightless (I still own this cassette)

Salt N Pepa - Hot, Cool, Vicious


I know there is more but this is all I could think of.

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Uncle Jam Wants You
Candy-O
I Am
Rust Never Sleeps
Risqué
Fear of Music
Reggatta de Blanc
Tusk
Prince
The Kids Are Alright
Three Imaginary Boys