106 & Park Was Truly The Culture's Last Stand

[DaPresident]

I miss Rap City

 

[Won Won]

I remember catching the premiere of the Aaliyah - We Need a Resolution video on there

 

[Jaguar93]

 

[Mag Wheel]

It has to be an age thing. 106 & Park was always trash to me. The negro TRL. I was way too hardcore hip hop for any of that friendly shyt.

 

[Greenhornet]

nah since you think anyone could get on to a label hosted show and how BET blackballed artists like De La Soul etc
it was a "last stand" as far as cable television and organic talk show medium in a seemingly "fully culture" façade

 

[Mac Ten]

Too much Bow Wow & Romeo for my taste
It was catered for the kids & teens
But yeah the internet ruined everything

Bow Wow went Gold and JD’s in Atlanta like “I Told You So”


Mad Skillz, 2003 Rap Up

 

[DANJ!]

Right.

106 & Park went down hill when they started catering to little kids.

??? When they started?

The crowd at 106 was made up of high school kids, Bow Wow was their flagship star, and most of the videos that made the countdown was youth-oriented... the whole show was based on what the kids were into from the get-go.

 

[Jone2three45]

??? When they started?

The crowd at 106 was made up of high school kids, Bow Wow was their flagship star, and most of the videos that made the countdown was youth-oriented... the whole show was based on what the kids were into from the get-go.

The first couple of seasons the crowd were young adults

 

[Mac Ten]

I ain't even finished reading this thread yet but you beat me to it...

106 was a kid's show. We adored it because we were kids when it was out. I'm not saying that it wasn't good for The Culture, it had its place...

Most mf's aged outta watching that shyt by the end of college/college-age (22-23, round to 25 if you wanna be super generous)...

And alot of us stopped watching it in high school, I did. The last year I probably watched it religiously was probably like '04 (15), maybe summer '05 the last time I remember really watching it, so I was 16. Off top of my head I believe that's when AJ and Free left...

Only adults over 25 I knew who watched it were jail nikkas because you could see videos and bytches. I never knew a single 25+ watching that shyt on the street, I really don't think I knew anyone over 22 watching it...

It was a kid's show and was impactful for The Culture but....it was a kid's show. It wasn't all that, nikkas loved it because they were kids...

Nikka’s in the barbershop watched it every night when I was a kid…


My Dad played it while cutting hair for the kids

 

[Playaz Eyez]

106 wasn’t really catered to kids, kids just happened to enjoy it. The biggest stars popped up and it was everybody from Bow Wow, to Nas, to Gwen Stefani, to Three 6 Mafia. The freestyle Friday stuff was NOT catered to kids

 

[murksiderock]

Nikka’s in the barbershop watched it every night when I was a kid…


My Dad played it while cutting hair for the kids

It was still a kids show bro...

106 wasn’t really catered to kids, kids just happened to enjoy it. The biggest stars popped up and it was everybody from Bow Wow, to Nas, to Gwen Stefani, to Three 6 Mafia. The freestyle Friday stuff was NOT catered to kids

Yes the fukk it was mf's couldn't even curse on Freestyle Friday. It was most definitely for the kids ...

 

[Pop123]

The coolest part about getting old is the kick you get out of revisionism, . Everything that’s done/old is revered…but when it was here the shhit was lowkey a joke and corny to non-kids/real hip hop head type nigs. Nigs was watching that jawn in jail, , facts. When Free started realizing dudes was on her body she started showing that ass and highlighting it more, if you know you know, 🫡

 

[murksiderock]

The coolest part about getting old is the kick you get out of revisionism, . Everything that’s done/old is revered…but when it was here the shhit was lowkey a joke and corny to non-kids/real hip hop head type nigs. Nigs was watching that jawn in jail, , facts. When Free started realizing dudes was on her body she started showing that ass and highlighting it more, if you know you know, 🫡

nikkas really in here saying it wasn't a teenybopper show

 

[DarkmanX]

Too much Bow Wow & Romeo for my taste
It was catered for the kids & teens
But yeah the internet ruined everything

Similar to how N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Eminem catered to (white) teens and kids on TRL

Proves @Marlon Barksdale's point

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

It was teenybopper but I was a teen then