Early 2000s music was so underrated...
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Saysumthinfunnymike
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I was a kid in the 90's and a teenager here so I grew up with both. I listen to more 90's/2000's shyt than new shyt fukk it, it's timeless 
See this is exactly what I'm talking about. No one can seriously think any song on the radio is fukking with this.
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Saysumthinfunnymike
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See this is exactly what I'm talking about. No one can seriously think any song on the radio is fukking with this.
Even middling hits >>>> what they play on the radio these days.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUb533T0Wk]The Beatnuts - No Escapin' This [Dirty] - YouTube[/ame]
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Yeah... people act like soon as the clock struck 12 and '99 became 2000, everything went wack overnight. There was still good music coming out, and even the radio was playing quality shyt.
It was really the last time R&B songs could stand on their own without having to be OVERLY reliant on sounding like the rap shyt... if anything, the rappers were more R&B influenced than the other way around. That R&B rap trend had its bad shyt of course, but there were some good songs that came out of it like 'No Better Love', 'Love U Better', 'Cant Let U Go', a few of Ja's songs, '21 Questions'.
The Neptunes were killin' it on the radio... and their shyt was way more upbeat and musical than most of whats on the radio lately. Then the mixtapes were killin on the street level cause artists started droppin their own tapes and shyts started comin out more frequently. Roc-a-Fella was smashin', G-Unit was still new and droppin' new heat all the time...
I ain't sayin' everything was great- there was a fair share of wack shyt... but it was probably the last time "mainstream" rap was still real diverse, all the way up to around '04. It wasn't as good as the mid-90s IMO, but there was still more of a diversity- you could hear a 'Oh Boy', a club joint like 'Nothin', a chick song like 'Put It On Me', and somethin' harder like 'One Mic' all within the same hour. Hindsight makes everything better I guess (cause I hated Murder Inc. in '01-'02, but I do find myself appreciating some of their shyt more nowadays), but it was def. a much better time in music than people give it credit for.
It was really the last time R&B songs could stand on their own without having to be OVERLY reliant on sounding like the rap shyt... if anything, the rappers were more R&B influenced than the other way around. That R&B rap trend had its bad shyt of course, but there were some good songs that came out of it like 'No Better Love', 'Love U Better', 'Cant Let U Go', a few of Ja's songs, '21 Questions'.
The Neptunes were killin' it on the radio... and their shyt was way more upbeat and musical than most of whats on the radio lately. Then the mixtapes were killin on the street level cause artists started droppin their own tapes and shyts started comin out more frequently. Roc-a-Fella was smashin', G-Unit was still new and droppin' new heat all the time...
I ain't sayin' everything was great- there was a fair share of wack shyt... but it was probably the last time "mainstream" rap was still real diverse, all the way up to around '04. It wasn't as good as the mid-90s IMO, but there was still more of a diversity- you could hear a 'Oh Boy', a club joint like 'Nothin', a chick song like 'Put It On Me', and somethin' harder like 'One Mic' all within the same hour. Hindsight makes everything better I guess (cause I hated Murder Inc. in '01-'02, but I do find myself appreciating some of their shyt more nowadays), but it was def. a much better time in music than people give it credit for.
I gotta say it's better now than it was about 4-5 years ago. shyt was gettin' downright shameful around '07.
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lol I keep seeing the same thing happening over and over, but hiphop heads are still in denial. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Anyway, Rap is better now than in the early 90s. It's also much realer because rappers aren't scared to be themselves anymore. While back then everyone was playing cartoon characters.
Anyway, Rap is better now than in the early 90s. It's also much realer because rappers aren't scared to be themselves anymore. While back then everyone was playing cartoon characters.
