To y'all old heads who were 18-25 during the 90's....what was it like for real?

What was your favorite/best year of partying?

What song, at it's peak, seemed to be the biggest thing ever when it was out?

Were clubs always 10PM-2AM?

What was VIP really like? Was it better than the bottle service thing that goes on now?

Because the overall sound of Rap/R&B changed so much every two years...how far back did DJ's tend to go? Such as...in 1995, would they play a lot of records from 92-93, or would it all be 94-95?

Day parties and Brunches are trendy now. What seemed to be trendy/new at the time back then, and does it still happen?

Was Freaknik and any other big weekend really the most amazing thing ever? What's the wildest shit you saw?

Any random stories you have?

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women could get as wild and crazy as they wanted without worry about cell phone footage.

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them go-go pool parties????

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that was a DC/PG county thing.

imagine a live go-go band & girls in bikinis...

OH MAN

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Only time I'd seen ALL of the WU together.

Best Show goes to Nas at the Hacienda when dropped It Was Written.

Worst Show goes to the WU at an old bowling alley in Lynwood...they billed it as the WU but only Ugod and Cappadonna showed up...shit was terrible...I fell asleep in one of the chairs.

The Good Life had some awesome performances too. I remembered Fat Joe getting boo'd out the cafe for cursing on stage... cats hit him w/ "please pass the mic" chant. KRS always got love there...at one time I thought he owned the spot cuz he was there so much.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan" (c) Martin Luther King Jr.

>The Good Life had some awesome performances too. I remembered
>Fat Joe getting boo'd out the cafe for cursing on stage...
>cats hit him w/ "please pass the mic" chant. KRS always got
>love there...at one time I thought he owned the spot cuz he
>was there so much.

Oh shit you were there for that?

I missed the Good Life era, but I was at the Blowed for a grip of Thursdays during the time Chu was hosting.

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To y'all old heads who were 18-25 during the 90's....what was it like for real?

What was your favorite/best year of partying? 94-96

What song, at it's peak, seemed to be the biggest thing ever when it was out? well.....we are a club music city...it's very hard to say...DooDoo Brown and Perculator were the staple but in hindsight...'Ayyyyye...you knuckleheads...walkin down the __insert CNN/MSNBC/FOX camera's location'

Were clubs always 10PM-2AM? round here...9-2 ...DC was/is till 3

What was VIP really like? Was it better than the bottle service thing that goes on now? NO...it was the same as it is now...erybody standing lookin at erybody else...walkin amongst the big time...easier to get drinks tho..i didn't get into vip till the very late 90s

Because the overall sound of Rap/R&B changed so much every two years...how far back did DJ's tend to go? Such as...in 1995, would they play a lot of records from 92-93, or would it all be 94-95?

Yep...there was always a good 1/2hr i guess ya'll call em sets....where stuff from the 80s up till about 92-93...when 'Shame on a Nigga' came on....man listen

Day parties and Brunches are trendy now. What seemed to be trendy/new at the time back then, and does it still happen?

i would go with the 'dress up'/no jeans parties...we had something called the Millenia parties... it was 25+ and i was too young...but we would catch the let outs...this is when coogi's and mauri's were cool...and the chicks were doin their thing....
Pool parties and All Black Parties was around too


Was Freaknik and any other big weekend really the most amazing thing ever? What's the wildest shit you saw?
One of my biggest regrets in HS...folks in my school went on a college tour...in ATL....during Freaknik..i didn't go..niggas in my class came back with crazy ass stories...the next year i was in college and i heard it was gonna be wack...i didn't go...and i think it was the last one ... erybody wanted to hit Daytona
Any random stories you have?

(the old)Hammerjacks...95....DefJam 'Concert'....RIDICULOUSLY packed....mofos was carrying people over the crowd because they were passed out before the shit even started...
Meth climbs up on the upstairs rail....leaps into the crowd.... the most crowded i think i've ever seen that club.... i didn't even have a ride home(dumb i know) and me n this girl n her homegirls i ran into from round my way caught a hack @ 3am home......had to get up in 3hrs to go to school
i loved Hammers

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The original Hammerjacks
Trilogy's
Paradox
Orpheus
Anywhere Boobie, Shawn Caesar, or Mike Crosby was DJ'ing if you could find a way to get in.

Where I first cut my teeth was this spot on Greene Street, Indigos. We would catch the #3 downtown to Lexington Market drinking Mickeys in the back and then take a hack home or Sedan when it closed.

Snuck into Colossals at 16 (I grew facial hair early, but not like they were ID'ing). Glad I got to go because it got raided a week or so later.

Crazy times but taught me how to maneuver young.

Streets won't let me chill.

Farenheit was later college years...

the new Hammerjacks was REALLY poppin when it 1st came back but of course this was the 2000's




settle this debate for me


(the old) Hammerjacks vs The Dox

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>(the old) Hammerjacks vs The Dox

Admittedly, I didn't get to experience much of Hammers when it was like that. I was still kind of young then and it was hard to get to w/o a car. I only went Easter 96 and 97 maybe? And by that time it was on it's last leg and ready to be torn down for the Stadium. I remember being pretty underwhelmed...and I think this was when Crush on You was out and all the chicks in there were dressed like the video with the colored wigs and shit (LOL). I went to the Dox more often, so I guess I have to lean toward that, although it was the smaller of the two.

When Hammers reopened though, that was immediately post-college for me and me and my boys used to go in there and get RIPPED off their bottomless cup nights. I wasn't sad when they rebranded and eventually closed though.

Streets won't let me chill.

off the strength of Western High c/o 95 senior party. It was unreal.

girls actually still danced. not just ass popping, though there was plenty of that too. you were expected to do something besides just stand there and be pretty.

some clubs stayed open til 3-4am until that Ray Lewis shit. they scaled the buckhead clubs down to 2am and eventually killed the entire club scene.

the music would range from the whatever was current to mid 80's hip hop. they'd also do the 'old school' sets with frankly beverly, prince, michael. heavy on the reggae. they'd also 70's shit with parliament, earth wind & fire, etc.

I only did vip a couple of times. It was lame to me since I didn't go pay to sit down somewhere.

I remember a few times being at a club that had one light in the whole spot. it was for the dj. it was called the warehouse and it was over near the west end train station. shit was hot, sweaty, and fun. til they started shooting inside. closed.

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that was THEE HEIGHT of the Jiggy era, so shit was DEFINITELY poppin in the clubs.

What was your favorite/best year of partying?

My best year(s) were probably like '01 to '04. Music was EXTREMELY club oriented, it was height of the Neptunes, and G-Unit blew up during that time period. One of the main reasons those were my best years though is because that's when I was doing promo HEAVY so I was out 4-6 nights a week, and that was the era in Seattle of Yo, Son! which is probably the best club night to ever happen (and hands down nothing as good has come along since). That night was world famous and rated a top 10 club night in America consistently by various publications during that time.
>
>What song, at it's peak, seemed to be the biggest thing ever
>when it was out?

In Da Club. it's not even a contest. I can remember the first Yo, Son! after it dropped. DJ spun it back to back something like 8-10 times and the whole dance floor was packed and turnt.

>Were clubs always 10PM-2AM?

Always in my experience. There were after hour clubs but no alcohol, but then drugs were way more heavy at those spots.
>
>What was VIP really like? Was it better than the bottle
>service thing that goes on now?

Can't answer. Seattle clubs, until lately, were never that bougie to have VIP. At Yo, Son! I danced with Gwen Stefani and rapped at the bar with Ray Allen because if you were there, you were in there. no hiding in VIP.

What's the wildest shit you saw? Wildest shit I saw is people fucking in the bathrooms and fights...nothing TOO out of the ordinary I suppose.

>Any random stories you have? As mentioned, just meeting random celebs and athletes. but dancing with Gwen Stefani was probably one of the better ones.

edit: i just realized even though I started clubbing in the 90's I was talking mostly about the '00s. my bad! even in the 90's though, shit was great. you had bad boy, murder inc, rocafella, no limit, cash money all on the rise or at their heights. so in my opinion the music was more fun and more danceable than anything in the last 10 years so you just had more fun going out.

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Men actually danced with the women vs. just grinding on them. It was fun. And you usually left the dancefloor a sweaty mess. I wasnt a big club goer but when I did I always had fun.

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Dress to Sweat parties were a thing

>To y'all old heads who were 18-25 during the 90's....what was
>it like for real? 1997 I was 22
>
>What was your favorite/best year of partying? 1997 I was 22
>
>What song, at it's peak, seemed to be the biggest thing ever
>when it was out? I cant even answer that tere were
>
>Were clubs always 10PM-2AM? In the D yep but there were MC clubs and afterhours joints *cough*
>
>What was VIP really like? Was it better than the bottle
>service thing that goes on now? Meh overrated then and now
>
>Because the overall sound of Rap/R&B changed so much every two
>years...how far back did DJ's tend to go? Such as...in 1995,
>would they play a lot of records from 92-93, or would it all
>be 94-95? Old school sets (1970-1980) Current jams
?
>
>Was Freaknik and any other big weekend really the most amazing
>thing ever? FREAKNIK was stupid wild

What's the wildest shit you saw? I guess the Que cunnilingus contest in broad daylight

And the Motorcycle clubs. I was too young and saw too much
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More interaction without the distraction of iphones. Really had to sharpen your game to talk to a chick.

There was this one after hours bar/club everybody in the crew would meet up at 2:30 and party til 5am. You could literally order a henn on the rocks at 4:45am. We'd come out and sun be up, birds chirping, and sometimes cop cars be waiting across the street to catch a drunk dumbass alone trying to get home.

A typical Friday or Saturday night for me was stopping at the speakeasy up the street called the Sugar Shack for a shot of corn liquor with the crew. From then we'd branch out and hit whatever club/bar/strip joint and end up at the after hours joint.

Favorite era was 94 to 96. I was at the sugar shack when it came on the radio that Tupac died. We drank heavy that night.

Big songs i remember starting at the beginning were Poison(BBD), New Jack Swing, OPP, Get Money(Big and Kim), Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See(MAJOR club banger).

Seemed more safe to party back then too. I dont remember ever anyone getting shot at any club or bar i went to back then. And i was in some hardcore bars too.

I have nothing but good memories of that era.

State Party....and DJ Clue was Djing

this was during that east coast/west coast goofy shit

i just remember him scratching or somethin...then he was like

"Hey ya'll....just got word....Rest In Peace Tupac...........
'ha-haaaa'"

erybody was just like wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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>"Hey ya'll....just got word....Rest In Peace Tupac...........
>'ha-haaaa'"


Im east coast and i felt pac's death as much as big's death.

the east-west feud was compelling but i dont remember anyone wanting to see anybody die from that ish.

apparently some cats were more heartless than others.

> Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See(MAJOR club banger).

where he performed this before it dropped
i swear even then you knew it was gonna be huge
the whole place went wild
shit i can't even remember where it was

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it's doing something arduous and
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being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor

Whole dance floor would fill up when that came on whether it was a club or a bar.

Chicks would be dancing with their drinks in the air.

I used to DJ at house parties here and there. People would get a DJ, set it all up in their basement, and party harder than you've seen at most clubs.

Clubbin was better. VIP was pretty non-existent. People came to actually dance, drink, and holler at each other, not sit in a booth with a bottle on some "Imaginary Player" shit.

Underground gigs/raves were the best shit going tho back then. You ain't been to a party until you've been to a rave where you got people 18-60 years old, every race or ethnicity in your area, and from every economic group high as fuck, giggin it up from 10pm until 7am the next morning in an abandoned warehouse, a field in the middle of nowhere, or in a club with foam machines running the whole time (foam events were the best).

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

..and mobile access to everything under the sun.

anyone that tells you anything less is sadly mistaken (or simply wasn't aware).

all the crazy shit you see today has an equivalent for that era. (i have personal footage from freaknic, how can i be down, daytona, caribana, black bike week, the greek, and more).

*small note: the biggest difference btwn then & now is that you simply HAD.to.BE.there. even with cell phones & pagers, there was no way of living vicariously through others.

as far as the music, it really depended on the location. top notch djs from that era new how to balance the night with a little bit of everything (although slow jams were losin' ground as hip hop surged to the forefront of entertainment). like always, you were sure to get a short 'throwback' set.

*btw: that 10p-2a was a regional thing (mostly west coast or small cities). most large east coast & midwest metropolitan areas had spots that were open 'til 4am. if not, there was ALWAYS the after-hours spot to hold you down until breakfast.






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96-01 was sweat out your worries on the dance floor with the opposite sex. The DC clubs still played a good hour of GoGo just after midnight and that's when you sweated out the last bit of your high/drunk/weave.

Dream, the first mega club in DC, opened around 01-02 and now it was about posting up in your finest stuff. Miami/Vegas style clubbing in DC. They slowly phased out GoGo because of the violent stigma attached. Still big dance floors but the jiggy era was in full effect so you had to be judicious because this is when the the club photos made the leap to the internet.

I was out of clubbing from 05-07 but when I briefly returned, the Stanky Leg, Souljah Boy, etc started getting popular so folks were pressed to dance with their friends rather than with the opposite sex. The mega clubs were starting to go extinct.

Now, all the big clubs are gone so you've got a bunch of smaller lounges that push bottle service. Dance floors are the size of a postage stamp.

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i remember goin to the Ritz in like 97....it was cool because it was huge and it was ALOT of chicks....but they were ...how shall i say....more conservative than what i was accustomed to lol...but i wouldn't call it a gogo

i remember goin to Dinosaurs in PG...it was ok


by the time DC Live/Dream/and that other big club (that i always forget the damn name but was next door to the old head club) an all that was around it was definitely all about flossin


but i never been to an actual real GoGo that all the dc/pg dudes used to swear was off the chain

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I remember the Ibex being one of the actual GoGo clubs but I can't remember any others.

I feel like you kind of had to be in that circle. I knew people that went every weekend but I really wasn't tight like that with them(grew up in Montgomery County) so I never went to a real one.

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metro club
safari club
deno's
bumpers
black hole!
legend
club mercedes
taj mahal!
evans grill
eastside
and muthafuckin triples!

off the top of my head

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Parties at the fire station, Byrne manor, mirage, ibex, trade winds etc

Club U...can't remember if that started in the 90s or 2000s tho

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i have the last backyard show there, when the cop got killed.

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..and miles to go before i sleep...

for the "educated" and more Bougie crowds, since that's the ones who might be from the East Coast or went to a Howard/Hampton. And it's all live music, so it just fits the vibe of more classy events. That makes it hilarious that it had such a hood stigma in DC.

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how old are you, young man?

my party years were from 92-99 in atlanta

one thing for certain mostly everyone DANCED

they used to have buses at the back gate to take us to parties

we clubbed - club xs (ugh), the phoenix, kaya, random buckhead spots, places i can't even remember names of now...lol

but i had more fun at the school parties
best party ever the deltas had jazzy joyce do their homecoming party. i forget what year it was but it was at the georgia world congress center. it was packed and i'm pretty sure i danced the entire night. jazzy joyce didn't play one bad song.

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>places i can't even remember names of now...lol

platinum house
esso (i swear i thought the floor was gonna break and kill us all lol)
warehouse
frozen paradise
112
559 (lol we had a party their and didn't know it was stripper night...hilarious)
industry (keith sweat's spot)
bell bottoms with the free dranks lol
(it was two more spots in buckhead that were poppin ... shit ... can't remember their names)

those are all the ones i can think of off the top

man the memories

edit: i don't remember club xs ...where was that?

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til 7am. and stayed crowded the whole time with those long as lines outside. might wait for a couple of hours to finally get in the spot.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

the key to happiness is not being rich;
it's doing something arduous and
creating something of value and then
being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor

we got inside and i was like "this is it?"
i couldn't wait to leave
just not my scene...lol

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that we danced.

we danced our asses off.

Nothing was better than going to a club and seeing folks battling.

i mean really going at it.


But then again, Atlanta was at its best from 89-92 as far as dancing.

anyone who remember Yeekin'(and or Yenkin dependin' on who you ask) can attest that those were the best years.

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>anyone who remember Yeekin'(and or Yenkin dependin' on who you
>ask) can attest that those were the best years.

i was in high school ...
we went to this spot off of memorial drive....
in a shopping center...
can't remember the name but it was still there when i was at CAU...
anyway .... they had a yeekin' contest at the club...
that among many other things that weekend sealed the deal for me coming to CAU for school lol....

the key to happiness is not being rich;
it's doing something arduous and
creating something of value and then
being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor

dance in the lower level of Brawley Hall....

The Atlanta native (myself included) quickly gave everyone in attendance what the Atlanta dance seen was about.

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untouchable. i say that because of the music and where hiphop culture was at the time. to be partying while ppl like juice crew, bdp, heav d, LL, PE, EPMD etc etc were in their heyday and their music was the CURRENT hot shit? and then that coincided with the whole house party thing... ppl used to dance all night long man. if there was beef ppl would fight and then rejoin the party lol. i look upon those days and get misty eyed for real

I got stories for days on a few now famous friends from our college days. lol

I got stories for days on a few now famous friends from our college days. lol

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being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor

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foam parties were basically damm near orgies. The first one I went to was my senior year of HS in 94 at Amnesia (it's Story now) and I couldn't believe it. Girls in coochie cutters and bikinis just going WILD on top of the bar and on the dance floor. 2 Live Crew, 95 South, Splack Pack, all the Bass shit...then dancehall: Buju, Capleton, Beenie Man, Bounty Killa, etc etc...then hip hop: Black Moon, Snoop, Wu, and singles that were big at the time: Domino, Warren G, Bone Thugs. And that's how the rotation went all night.

these were all ages parties full of HS kids from all over...looking back, shit was surreal. 15 and 16 year old girls poppin that coochie in front of hundreds of dudes.

Then came DJ Craze at The Gates in 95. I was 17 was able to get in cuz I learned the first lesson early: gotta know someone. Knew the bouncers from being on the scene and they would let me in. This was the only club on south beach playing hip hop at the time, nobody else was fuckin with it. Craze would play Mobb Deep, Nas, Wu, Brand Nubian, Dre, Hiero, anything.

I'll never forget the night he played Liquid Swords promo 12 inch. Nobody had heard it before. He played the first verse and like 3 fights broke out, bouncers were stomping heads throwing dudes out the club, pure madness. He had to stop playing the record and got on the mic (he never talked) and was tellin people to calm the fuck down. I was on top of a speaker just losing my mind, yelling and shit. He rewound and played it back to back 3 times, motherfuckers were screaming for it. From there he went on to the DMC and the rest is history. That spot The Gates is a dive bar now.

madness ensues

That bassline is on swoll

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Experiencing the rap I loved as a young adult meant 90% dudes blunted the fuck out standing in place nodding to boombap shit

I'm sad

our clubs have always stayed open til 4am
although I never lasted that long...