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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7. "it's really good, man....you should peep it" In response to Reply # 4
Obviously a regional sound to it, but when you understand that those dudes love/loved hip hop just as much as you do, and they just kickin shit from their side of things, you can appreciate it for what it is.
I remember that album came out the same day as ATCQ Beats, Rhymes & Life...
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18. "'murder' is undeniable." In response to Reply # 4
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it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes
The sad thing is, even with the releases I've gotten that were post- 2010, I haven't even listened to them THAT much. And I don't have that much music from this decade.
Going off the top, I only remembered "Prey For The Poor", "TPAB", and "The Good Fight"
But after looking thru my iTunes 2010+ playlist, I was able to get a list easily. (and this is exactly why I have a 2010+ playlist)
I have a bunch more highly rated albums from this decade like Lupe's latest, but that dropped the same day Joey's album dropped. I was way more excited for Joey because I'm not too into Lupe. I listened to "T & Y" about 3 times just because I was more focused on the other album (not to say "T & Y" was bad. I just haven't had my mind on it)
No particular order
Add-2 "Prey For The Poor" 2015
Blakface and SeanWyze "Ancient Scientist" 2014
Joey Bada$$ "B4.Da.$$" 2015
Kendrick Lamar "To Pimp A Butterfly" 2015
The Roots "undun" 2011
Common "The Dreamer/The Believer" 2011
Diamond District "March on Washington" 2014
Mick Jenkins "The Water" 2014
Oddisee "The Good Fight" 2015
Ray West and O.C. "Ray's Cafe" 2014
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13. "But back to the 90s stuff" In response to Reply # 6
I have a list og easily 1,000 plus albums I need to listen to. I got them from reading "Best albums of the 90s, 00s, underground, slept on" etc lists and just saved them to One Note. Some notable albums I'm missing are:
All Jungle Brother's classic albums except for their one in 96 or 97.. Raw Deluxe i think?
The D.O.C.'s first album
The Coup Digital Underground
I have Bone Thugs and Souls of Mischief but I never listened
I have to re listen to the OG classics from artists like
Kane KMD Kool G Rap Kool Moe Dee LL Cool J Heiro Rakim Ultramagnetic MCs Slick Rick MC Lyte Queen Latifah Boogie Down Productions
"I'm twenty-two, catch In the prime of my life, I don't have time to be a wife"
19. "RE: But back to the 90s stuff" In response to Reply # 13
The generational gap is such a funny thing, I of course had it with my parents, for example the Beatles just never did that much for me, or I hated Pink Floyd cause it was my dad's favorite band and I grew up listening to it, but I was a skater punk/hip-hop kid so it was 'laaammee'.. now I love them.
I love seeing kids like you that are going back into the older stuff like i did when I matured.. and it's funny seeing your list of things you need to go back to being everything I grew up with that I can't imagine anyone not knowing
10. "RE: Classic Albums You Totally Missed Out On...." In response to Reply # 0
I'm embarrassed to say I never listened to Ready to Die in full until like 2003.
I still haven't listened to a lot of classic albums from the 80s. Recently I decided to check out the first two Slick Rick LPs.
I finally got around to listening to the full debuts of Smif n Wessun, Heltah Skeltah, and Gravediggaz a few months ago. So good.
Like you said- back in the 90s if you were a kid there was no way to hear it all. Limited funds, limited time, and I had no problem just wearing out the 4-5 tapes I was really into at any given time.
11. "Albums while in junior high and high school." In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-25-16 07:02 PM by obsidianchrysalis
I didn't have the money to keep up with alot of the great albums from '91 - '95. Once I had a little money in college and access to a used CD store, I started to get more into Wu-Tang, OutKast, and other east coast hip-hop (I grew up in St. Louis and Columbia, MO)
But I fell out of touch with music around 2001 and missed (or skipped over depending on the quality of those albums) music from 2001 - 2010.
I picked up the big releases from the aging-school (Nas, Jay, The Roots, OutKast, Mos) but alot of the underground and indie movements I missed out on. I didn't really find out about Kendrick until good kid, m.A.A.d. city but he and Jay Elec were the only modern days rappers that I would check for consistently
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I started to drift away from hip-hop also during that time between 2001 - 2010. Mostly because of a change in my conscience regarding the way women and gays are portrayed along with the harsh lifestyles alot of the music reflected. There just aren't alot of modern day equivalents of acts like the Native Toungues or Gangstarr or Black Star which were all acts that tended to keep away from gun talk, gangsta images, and rampant mysogyny while still keeping an edge.
14. "I didn't live Illmatic at all" In response to Reply # 0
Granted I was 10, but I don't remember hearing any of his songs on Detroit radio growing up. It wasn't until "If I Ruled The World" popped off I got to know Nas.
I don't think I heard Illmatic in full until 1997.
20. "RE: Classic Albums You Totally Missed Out On...." In response to Reply # 0
I grew up on 90s hip-hop and punk but living in Greece there were certain things that just never made it to the record stores there (of course pre internet days).
i'll stick just to the hip hop due to the boards I'm on... but for some reason it took until the napster days to discover groups like: Blahzay Blahzay The Beatnuts Diamond D
things like that, people that were connected or parts of the same crews as people I idolized but just weren't there to make it to the other side of the world
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