>On The Radio/Mainstream front:
>I'm inclined to think Usher and Lil Jon's "Yeah" was perhaps
>the biggest hit of this period in my area (Florida). I still
>can't take that song in any form, including being drunk as
>hell at the club lol. I hate that beat so deeply.


>I remember when 50 Cent's "In The Club" dropped and he
>officially became every high school age hip-hop fan's favorite
>rapper. I played the shit out of Get Rich or Die Trying and
>really thought he'd be a long standing, respect figure of
>hip-hop. I guess half of that is true lol.

Ehh...I still think "In the club" was a bit bigger, but those are EASILY the two biggest hits in the last decade, especially for Rap/R&B, and there's nothing even close enough to call #3.


>Being in the south, of course Young Jeezy and T.I. really took
>off and where bumped at house parties regularly. I didn't like
>Jeezy then 'cause "Soul Survivor" was the big one getting play
>and that's up there with Usher's "Yeah" for me. As for T.I.,
>shit I still get a little hyped for "What You Know".

I didn't care for a lot of the mixtape trap Jeezy, but "Soul survivor" was sick to me. I actually didn't like "What you know" all that much back then, but a LOT of those South songs didn't hit me til around the time I graduated from FAMU in 08...like Pastor Troy "No mo play in GA"

>Underground/Personal Picks:
>Hell this is the era where I discovered "Undergound hip-hop".
>I remember Cage's Hell's Winter really helping me through all
>that teenage angst. Same with a lot of Murs and Atmosphere.

Crazy that I didn't realize Murs was big until 02 when I was in HS...I remember going to Redondo Union (Redondo Beach HS) and hearing a white girl blast it, I said "wait...that sounds TOO familiar...that's.........MURS!!!!!"