For my HipHop old heads, where were you when these records dropped? I copped both at The Wiz on Georgia Avenue in DC.

Twenty years later, I wound up writing a book on 36 Chambers: http://amzn.to/2lsJYxU

Pretty sure it was released a few months before the album. I was enamored by the song and video. There was nothing else like it. I was obsessed with it.

Not sure where I was when 36th chambers dropped, but I know my crew had it from day one.


Regarding MM - Low end theory was already a classic to me, and I remember not understanding What or Who Steve Biko is and what an award tour was. But that album cover had me. Of course this might be their best output, but at the time everything was being judged against LOW END. Hard bar to measure up to.



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I'm pretty sure I must have had midterms that day, because I didn't head out to pick them up until Tuesday evening (usually it'd be a late morning/early afternoon trip).

Listened to Tribe first on my Walkman on the way out and over to the McDonald's in the Gallery.

I don't think I listened to Wu-Tang until I got back to the dorms. I was expecting it to be dope, but my mind was blown at exactly HOW dope it was.

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I played Wu's joint much more than I played ATCQ's which I liked but didn't love the same as I did Low End Theory.

That Wu played all night long on low levels while I slept and very loud ones when I was awake. Midnight Marauders rocked parties for everybody while that Wu banged when the fellas was shooting the shit, playing Spades, dominoes, and drinking.

Months later, we got jewels and gems from Queen Latifah, Heavy D, Snoop, Biggie, Nas, Jeru, Gang Starr. For real, I think this was the beginning of the greatest run of rap music ever. And definitely of some of my greatest memories ever.

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what a day for rap music..what release day even compares

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>added to my amazon wishlist immediately
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>what a day for rap music..what release day even compares


September 29, 1998


Aquemini
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Brand Nubian-Foundation
Jay Z- Hard Knock Life
ATCQ-The Love Movement



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I bought Aquemini and Black Star on the same day and those 2 are still linked by nostalgic feeling.

I didn’t recall that the Love Movement was the same day. If so, I bought that too on the release date, but I must have blocked that traumatic memory from my mind.

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Kast and Blackstar make it hard to pick, but the latter contains classics (Thieves In the Night, Respiration) blended with songs that are very good (Children's Story) and songs that are uneven (love the hook of Knowledge of Self, but not the verses).

I've gone years without hearing Vol II and don't have any particular desire to play that album front to back, although I acknowledge the bangers therein (Jay was in rare form on Reservoir Dogs..funny thing is though, that style he used on there aged badly....Kiss and Sauce's verses are timeless).

But Midnight and 36? No skips. Front to back fire.

Shoutout to Aquemini tho. Straight flames throughout too.

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Love Movement is obviously slaughtered by MM lol

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Listened to Midnight and loved it. Just what I expected from Tribe. Listened to Wu and was stuck on a park bench for 10 minutes trying to process what I just heard.

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And since my parents didn't really allow my brother and I to buy rap music, at least rap with the Parental Advisory sticker on them, I wasn't able to buy these albums that day.

But I do have a memory of my younger brother and me going to Streetside Records (Florissant!) in St. Louis a few weeks after the albums dropped with my older brother who had a car.

I was a big Tribe fan but I didn't buy the album that day.
Mostly because I didn't have a CD player. But my brother bought the edited Da Mystery of Chessboxin' cassette single, which I think had Protect Your Neck on it. I dunno.

My older brother bought MM and just in aural heaven listening to his subwoofer bump.

Then he played the Wu single and I remember thinking that I had never heard ANYTHING like that before. And also being a bit scared because that beat is so dissonant and off-kilter. Haven't felt that way about a song since.

I bought both albums a couple of years later when I got old enough to have a job and a CD player. It's amazing how both albums were landmarks of the genre. Enter the 36 established a completely novel take on hip hop and was executed at the highest level of craft. Truly a one of a kind piece of art.

Then Midnight, which may not be the more important album between it and Low End, but to me it perfected everything that Low End sought out to do. I don't have a Top XX list of albums. But Midnight is probably my favorite hip-hop album. Not necessarily the best, but it's an album that is the foundation for my musical and hip-hop tastes.

I feel like a curmudgeon talking about, 'Music was better back when I was young.' But to have two amazing, true classic albums drop on the same day is something I wished happened today. Granted, it may still happen. I'm in my early 40's now and modern hip-hop just doesn't speak to me like it did back then. But, 'what a time to be alive'

of 36 chamber acapellas x midnight beats

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But - I dunno, not sure it's worth the hype it's been receiving.

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Friend who worked at tower came home with it, and we had our own listening party

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I didn't listen/hear Wu-Tang until early '94.

I HONESTLY , no joke - thought they were a Boo Ya Tribe spin-off for some reason. Wasn't until I went to a friend's house and heard it there that I realized I had to listen to it.

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Interviews of each member of the Clan, except Rae for whatever reason. But the filmmakers did interview Ol' Dirty's son, who seems a bit like his old man.

>For my HipHop old heads, where were you when these records
>dropped? I copped both at The Wiz on Georgia Avenue in DC.
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>Twenty years later, I wound up writing a book on 36 Chambers:
>http://amzn.to/2lsJYxU


No one in my family was connected to hip hop, and I was the youngest child (at the time, till my folks split up). Watched TV more than I listened to music, and radio was much better than, as was video programming. Rap City, Yo MTV Raps, the Box, etc. In high school, I had folks who would make tapes for me, and I had Midnight Marauders, Tical, and Ready to Die in some combination on a tape. Can't remember what the 4th album was or if one was alone.

Release dates weren't something I tracked until I got to college, in the middle of nowhere and at the cusp of the internet (1996). My first CD was Mobb Deep Hell on Earth. I bought Ironman on tape because I didn't have a stereo that played CDs yet. My two closest friends were a big influence because they stayed playing the latest stuff. I remember one saying how "this Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z is pretty dope." In any event, they started putting me on to stuff. I think I got a Columbia House or BMG membership and started building the catalog. By the time Wu Tang Forever came out, I was a full fledged head. I had heard 36 chambers several times by then, but it was only through repeated extended listens that stuff started to really seep in. I don't have a "when I first heard it" moment, that started with Ironman as far as Wu albums went.

MM, because Tribe was generally more accessible and radio/video friendly, was getting many more regular listens. As a matter of fact, I had been through MM no less than 30-50 times before I ever listened to LET, which many say is better. I will forever put MM at the top.

Regardless of being there for the release date, with time and experience, I can truly appreciate the significance of what they represented, especially at that time. Those two will always be in my top 20 hip hop albums of all time (likely my 10).

That 1998 release date was a hell of a day as well, but I wouldn't put any of those albums over either of these two. This wasn't just a "great day for hip hop releases," it was a seminal day in hip hop history.

...Sitting in my car listening to these between classes and not getting any studying done whatsoever

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Driving in the car that day after getting them was crazy. I remember thinking Tribe was dope as fuck, but I was completely blown away by the Wu joint.

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