Common really made I used to love her in the middle of a golden era

[OG Talk]

The Roots were suggesting that Biggie wasn’t “real hip hop” in ‘96..

Notorious fukking BIG!!!! One of the greatest most creative lyricists of all time that always showed love to the pioneers of the culture..

Them hippity dippity hop nikkas were and still are unbearable fakkits..







Resurrection is a classic album though.

 

[How Sway?]

The Roots were suggesting that Biggie wasn’t “real hip hop” in ‘96..

Notorious fukking BIG!!!! One of the greatest most creative lyricists of all time that always showed love to the pioneers of the culture..

Them hippity dippity hop nikkas were and still are unbearable fakkits..







Resurrection is a classic album though.

You'd be surprised at how many true hiphop purists think big and pac were overrated.

The only 'mainstream' rappers they mess with are nas, common, and maybe em

 

[OG Talk]

You'd be surprised at how many true hiphop purists think big and pac were overrated.

The only 'mainstream' rappers they mess with are nas, common, and maybe em

Trust me I know. I grew up in that era unfortunately..

But not even Nas was immune..

The same weirdos called him a sellout for dropping a Kurtis Blow hook over a Whodini sample on IWW..

They were so “real hip hop” they hated REAL hip hop..

 

[Playaz Eyez]

You had to be there. Every album dropping wasn’t a classic like history revises it to be. This was also the first era of the fake MC who fabricated their life to sell records

I remember some chick out on the west coast, she was fine too, got exposed for being a catholic school girl back in the day. CB4 wasn’t a fairy tale, cats just had good beats back then.

There's 100% reason for CB4 being made around that time, but it's also incredible how well that movie has held up even today.

 

[ahdsend]

The Roots were suggesting that Biggie wasn’t “real hip hop” in ‘96..

Notorious fukking BIG!!!! One of the greatest most creative lyricists of all time that always showed love to the pioneers of the culture..

Them hippity dippity hop nikkas were and still are unbearable fakkits..







Resurrection is a classic album though.

that had more to do with bad boy's jiggy image..

his lyrical ability was always respected

 

[DaveyDave]

There’s issues of The Source in 91/92 where they ask MCs what they think of the state of hip hop and some of them talk the same shyt even back then, I think Q Tip was one of them saying it was too commercialised and all that shyt.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Roots were suggesting that Biggie wasn’t “real hip hop” in ‘96..

Notorious fukking BIG!!!! One of the greatest most creative lyricists of all time that always showed love to the pioneers of the culture..

Them hippity dippity hop nikkas were and still are unbearable fakkits..







Resurrection is a classic album though.

you gotta remember, Biggie was part of the early stages of what came to be the shiny suit era

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

You had to be there. Every album dropping wasn’t a classic like history revises it to be. This was also the first era of the fake MC who fabricated their life to sell records

I remember some chick out on the west coast, she was fine too, got exposed for being a catholic school girl back in the day. CB4 wasn’t a fairy tale, cats just had good beats back then.

Bo$$ and she was from Detroit, not da West Coast.

 

[patscorpio]

nikkas was complaining about the shiny suit era in the 90s

i know i was lol

 

[tuckgod]

You'd be surprised at how many true hiphop purists think big and pac were overrated.

The only 'mainstream' rappers they mess with are nas, common, and maybe em

That wasn’t no secret.

Pac was never respected as an emcee when he was alive and Big complained in his very last interview with Joe Clair how he wasn’t respected for his skills.

In OGC’s 1st video, they parodied that nikka Big getting boo’d and tossed off the stage by Rock from Heltah Sketah.

 

[Phantum]

you gotta remember, Biggie was part of the early stages of what came to be the shiny suit era

As a young teenage militant backpacker, Biggies second album was very disappointing. I just wanted hardcore, street shyt. Same with Nas' second album. It took me a while to actually appreciate those albums. Life After Death might have been the spark but I think Mase really started it.

 

[Big Boss]

Remember the beef between KRS ONE and Nelly

 

[IllmaticDelta]

nikkas been complaining about Hip Hop since Hip Hop was invented.

Me, Myself, and I came out in ‘89 complaining about the gold chains and tough guy image in hip hop.

Crossover came out in 92, complaining about nikkas making songs for radio play.

I Used to Love H.E.R in 94

Stakes is High and What They Do in 96

All these was during the “Golden Era”

Same nikkas that was crying back then is crying today.

That’s why I tell these young nikkas to pay the old heads no mind.

Complaining in Hip Hop is tradition.

facts...I posted this before but the OG guy's complained about (what we now see as groundbreaking) about the Message

Melle Mel/Flash and them didn't want to do "The Message" originally

Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, who was a staff songwriter as Sugarhill Records, started writing this song on a piano in his mother's basement in 1980. He made a demo of the song with his own raps and took it to label boss Sylvia Robinson, who asked Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five to record it. Flash would later speak of the song as a landmark in the evolution of rap, but he and the group wanted nothing to do with the song, and even ridiculed it when he heard the demo. "The subject matter wasn't happy. It wasn't no party s--t. It wasn't even some real street s--t. We would laugh at it," said Flash.

With the band balking at recording the song, she decided to record it with the group's rapper Melle Mel trading verses with Fletcher. At this point, Flash asked Robinson to let the entire group perform on the track, but she refused. Melle added some additional lyrics to the song as well.

The Message by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five Songfacts



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and before that, the OG's state that true hiphop died as soon as it a became record/impact of Rappers Delight

 

[hex]

I know that Treach was VERY pissed off about that intro.

But that's how it was in '96 with the Old Guard going against the Young Guns during that period.

The sad part is that was a big ass misunderstanding.

Pos had a whole verse referencing random rappers on some wordplay shyt.

I guess it was too long so he only kept a couple bars (Kane and NBN). Out of context it seems like he's calling out NBN.

Treach had the album early so he heard the line and was like because he's fans of De La.

Played the song for random NJ goons....they put a battery in his back to approach De La.

Treach approached De La at the record release party and his goons just attacked Pos off GP.

Fred.

 

[SAJ!!]

The Roots were suggesting that Biggie wasn’t “real hip hop” in ‘96..

Notorious fukking BIG!!!! One of the greatest most creative lyricists of all time that always showed love to the pioneers of the culture..

Them hippity dippity hop nikkas were and still are unbearable fakkits..







Resurrection is a classic album though.

One of the main reasons why I felt that the underground hip-hop scene was slowly being taken over by nerds, disgruntled rappers, and broke dudes, especially during the late 90s.

They are just as dangerous as the "'flossin' and bossin' rappers.