I mean, there are so many hours in the day, and back in the 90's when you actually had to get off your ass and go get an album from the store, it was easy to miss out on stuff cause you're limited by time and money....

All that being said I graduated from college in 96, was expanding my musical tastes, and except for some big releases like Moment of Truth and Life After Death, I didn't listen to hip hop for like two years. (luckily my boys looked out and brought me back with Black Star and The Rude Awakening)

Totally missed out on The War Report, Aquemini and Capital Punishment. Didn't hear the latter two until years later. Still have never heard War Report from front to back.
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Also, I was in Ghana for Spring semester of 2000 and had an internship that summer, with no real access to TV or much media, so I missed out on the "flowering" of Dilla's output, save for Like Water For Chocolate.

I was close minded to anything they came out of the south until ATLiens. And while I loved the Mobb Deep singles, I never listen to The Infamous until about five or six years after he dropped, at which point, a lot of what made it fresh was old.

in like 2006
i knew some of the songs, but i didn't know the whole album
i also hated supreme clientele the first time i heard it
then became obsessed with it like 5 years later

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Same time I heard Fantastic 2 and Minstrel Show. In 07, I started DJing, and had a COMPLETE change in my taste of music.

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it was crazy cuz one of my best friends knew 9th
and she rolled up on me one time with a blank cd like "YOOO listen to this!"
and it was his remix album of jay's the black album
she said he literally was listenin to it and took it out of his cd player and gave it to her
them little brother niggas was the shit and they still cool as fuck to this day

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Somebody brought her up in the Lesson recently and I remember searching the earth for this album. Still haven't heard it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfa0fMDN5g <----!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLjLcjXjuY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS-lVAjE5-0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld5XNqE1A58


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzTul_UOIM0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIj3YkZY3-o



This isn't the whole album but yo, its right there with Mama's Gun.

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One Hundred.

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One Hundred.

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when i finally got to it i was like damn...i was happy as hell to have a brand new (to me) dope album from jz lol. my homie was jealous like man i wish i just discovered that shit

i heard it recently and i'm good on that shit. i can't hardly get through it thanks to all that 'faggot' mess. i dig some of the beats though.

fuck you.

?

fuck you.

fuck you.

Like, I know why you would find someone saying "faggot" offensive and all, but you're also a Black man and these rappers all constantly drop "nigga" in their lyrics and you've even written it here on this board but you take no offense to that.

Why would one be more offensive over the other? Wouldn't both of them be equally reprehensible as an enlightened adult Black Gay male?

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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.

I don't listen to much Rock or Pop, or Blue Eyed Soul anyway...but if any of those had White artists using "NIGGER" against us? Nah, I wouldn't care how great it was, I would turn it off. Or if any White rappers were using it, I couldn't listen.

Literally every time the F word is used on Rap songs, it is used in a derogatory way. Sure, rappers like that "Homo Thug" Kaushun said he wanted to empower the word like Black folks did to the N word, but nah, that never happened. I still don't know any gay people who use that word casually or friendly with each other.

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>I don't listen to much Rock or Pop, or Blue Eyed Soul
>anyway...but if any of those had White artists using "NIGGER"
>against us? Nah, I wouldn't care how great it was, I would
>turn it off. Or if any White rappers were using it, I couldn't
>listen.

And yet, Fat Joe, Cuban Link, Big Pun and the like somehow get a pass? Nah b, I can't rock with that rationale.

>I still don't
>know any gay people who use that word casually or friendly
>with each other.

You must not be around a lot of gay folks. My roommate in college was gay, I played out at Menjos and Club X in Detroit (both gay clubs... in fact my flight case still has a OneX sticker), my ex-fiancee was bi and had a grip of gay/trans friends by the crib and we used to hit the Nectarine in A2 on random nights, with gay night being one of them.

I heard "faggot" out of so many gay men's mouths I just assumed no one ever cared about the word. Shit like "I'm such a faggot" or "my gawd, he's such a faggot" flew back and forth all the time accompanied by laughter and shit.

Even recently I've heard those very sentences spoken by gay men gossiping at the vegan spot my wife likes to eat at.

... I guess whether gay folks use it may vary by region.

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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.

>>I don't listen to much Rock or Pop, or Blue Eyed Soul
>>anyway...but if any of those had White artists using
>"NIGGER"
>>against us? Nah, I wouldn't care how great it was, I would
>>turn it off. Or if any White rappers were using it, I
>couldn't
>>listen.
>
>And yet, Fat Joe, Cuban Link, Big Pun and the like somehow get
>a pass? Nah b, I can't rock with that rationale.

But Puerto Ricans have way more in common with us than Whites do, so it's a completely, completely different thing, still. AND they aren't using it on songs to be derogatory. Now, it can be confusing, because Big Pun's uncle could own a store in BX, and if he gets mad at us and says "get out of here nigger!" we would take offense. Still, they are seen as closer to us than Whites for various reasons.


>>I still don't
>>know any gay people who use that word casually or friendly
>>with each other.
>
>You must not be around a lot of gay folks. My roommate in
>college was gay, I played out at Menjos and Club X in Detroit
>(both gay clubs... in fact my flight case still has a OneX
>sticker), my ex-fiancee was bi and had a grip of gay/trans
>friends by the crib and we used to hit the Nectarine in A2 on
>random nights, with gay night being one of them.
>
>I heard "faggot" out of so many gay men's mouths I just
>assumed no one ever cared about the word. Shit like "I'm such
>a faggot" or "my gawd, he's such a faggot" flew back and forth
>all the time accompanied by laughter and shit.
>
>Even recently I've heard those very sentences spoken by gay
>men gossiping at the vegan spot my wife likes to eat at.
>
>... I guess whether gay folks use it may vary by region.

I mean, I'm around gay folks here and there, but never lived with one, and I'm never really around groups where they're all gay. Still, I didn't hear them say it, and even if they did, the way it comes off in Rap songs is still a whole, whole lot different.

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I swear to God/Buddha/Krishna we had a convo that was pulled straight out of an Eddie Murphy routine where we were talking about our plans for the night and I was like "I got this chick up on the hill I'm finna go holla at, what you got goin on?", "I met a new guy over in Walton and I'm gonna go over there to get drunk and suck his dick..."

*blank stare*

"well... um, yeah you go do that I'll catch you later"


When the semester started he moved in a couple days before I did. When I got there with my boys he wasn't there. One of my boys noticed some catalogs left out on his desk and looked through them.

"Yo Pops... I think your roommate is... gay."

We checked out the catalogs, whole bunch of leather dudes, assless chaps, codpieces... Shit looked like it came straight from The Blue Oyster bar on Police Academy. Under the last catalog was a few of the thickest condoms I've ever seen in my life and some lube that I had never seen before. Like, they were specifically designed for rough butt fucking or some shit.

Cool dude, his friends were mad cool too. I stayed tight with one gay female friend of his until she shipped off to the military 5-6 years later.

Funniest shit was one Sunday night we were sittin off watching the new episode of Living Single. Regine was going on a date with some new dude and when she entered the scene I let off a "whoooooo!", then her date entered the shot and my roommate was like "uuuunf"

we had a good laugh over that.

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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.

>I still don't
>know any gay people who use that word casually or friendly
>with each other.

i don't either.

me and the homies don't refer to each other w/that term and we don't apply it to other queers either. we may jokingly/lovingly refer to each other w/feminine pronouns and other adopted slurs like 'bitch', but we don't use 'fag'.

fuck you.

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fuck you.

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in the 90s.

obviously, i'm 100% up on Kast and Death Row etc. but i never really bothered to educate myself on E-40, DJ Quik, UGK, 8 Ball & MJG etc etc. and honestly, i still dont have any inclination to do so. lol

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you catch SOOOOOOOO MANY references and lyrics that rappers have used since then. Just in 2014 alone, I heard like three different artists use Suga Free lyrics...Trey Songz & Kid Ink, YG, and Problem. Same with UGK, I hear so many South artists using their lyrics on songs. UGK's "Murder" had way too many quotables, from Pimp's verse alone.

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I remember when "Ring Ring" dropped and it was cool. but for some reason, I just never got around to buying that album. And I never heard it when i was hanging with the fellas.

It's odd because I was a big fan of "3 Feet High..." and when "Buhloone Mindstate" dropped, we played the hell out of it. I just somehow missed DLSID.

But I've actually never heard the first album either. I own De La Soul is dead and love it but at the time it missed me besides the singles. I wasn't really up on albums yet.

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i was more a geto boys fan than a Face fan. Didn't discover his greatness til years later.

I didn't hop on the 50 madness of the early 2000s. I think my ears just kind of needed a change of pace. I'm sure it's a great album, I just wasn't inspired to listen.

Streets won't let me chill.

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Tape.

I really don't think folks here understand the differences that age and Region can have on people. Literally nobody I knew back then, being ten years old, was playing this, except for Murs. He was the only one I knew who was into Wu at that level. But ALL of my friends at that time were into WC & The Maad Circle, Warren G, Twinz, DPG, Quik, and even Tribe, Outkast, and Biggie.

So yeah, I caught up on it in like 2010-2011.

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Same for A Long Hot Summer, Illadelph Halflife,

I've never listened to Capital Punishment, The War Report, not even one of AZ's albums, anything Fat Joe made past Jealous One's Envy, not a single Diddy album, Immobilarity and The Lex Diamond Story... There's an awful lot of shit I just never listened to.


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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.

...that Cool Breeze and Witchdocta albums.

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>...that Cool Breeze and Witchdocta albums.

I wouldn't call them classics but they're damn good. Especially that Witchdoctor.

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

Not home run albums but they've definitely got some dope material on them.

"Outkast album cuts that wouldn't be singles" soundwise.

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I'm too much of a fan of good lyrics to want to listen to any of the aforementioned albums. To this day. In 2016. I was never a huge Fugees fan even when they were fairly popular. I'm thankful for The Source giving Lauryn Hill Verse of the Month for her contribution to How Many Mics because otherwise I'd have no idea that song existed. Pras and Wyclef stunk too badly with their raps for me to want to pay the group any serious attention. I've seen on this website that Wyclef's solo albums are brilliant works of art, but I can't bring myself to wanting to give them a listen.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

I can see Pras but Clef was no slouch on the mic. Lauryn was just one of the best period during that time so his rhymes came up short in comparison to hers.

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He might use the word "contraction" and instead of attempting to use a word that comes close to rhyming with it (like the word "distraction"), he will rhyme it with a word like "confusion." All because they both end in a suffix that has the "shun" sound. I hate when rappers pull that lazy crap.

EDIT: This example might make a good topic for a post.



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