Hip Hop 20 years ago, 2005

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Off the top of the head....

Sean Price - Monkey Barz. What more needs to be said? Debut solo album from the GOAT. The rebirth of a hip-hop legend and this is what kickstarted it all.

The U.N. - U In or U Out? My favorite album of '05. Roc Marc went insane on this whole album. I'd love to hear him go back to this style of spitting over the type of production on this album. Large Pro and Pete Rock laced this joint.

O.C. - Starchild. Soul Supreme gave O some fantastic production here. Don't really hear this talked about in DITC releases, but it's one of my favorite albums out of their camp.

*Edit* - That UN album came out in 2004. Got my summers mixed up.

 

[mitter]

What do you remember about it?

What albums from that year did you like or still like and listen to?

Off the top of the head I remember liking The B Coming album

I remember listening to The Sweet James Jones Stories alot

The Further Adventures of Lord Quas was another

Common’s album BE (even tho I only listen to It’s Your World randomly now)

Proof’s Searching For Jerry Garcia got a lot of listens from me


I think DJ Quik dropped Trauma that year, and I remember listening to that too.


AZ’s album A.W.O.L., only thing I remember about this album is the single, The Come Up


GZA and DJ Muggs which was a huge highlight of that year, what a return to slight form for GZA

For me, Hip-Hop ended around 2003-2004 ...

 

[mitter]

Off the top of the head....

Sean Price - Monkey Barz. What more needs to be said? Debut solo album from the GOAT. The rebirth of a hip-hop legend and this is what kickstarted it all.

The U.N. - U In or U Out? My favorite album of '05. Roc Marc went insane on this whole album. I'd love to hear him go back to this style of spitting over the type of production on this album. Large Pro and Pete Rock laced this joint.

O.C. - Starchild. Soul Supreme gave O some fantastic production here. Don't really hear this talked about in DITC releases, but it's one of my favorite albums out of their camp.

I remember getting the Starchild CD free in the mail. If I remember correctly, someone affiliated with the label posted on SOHH that they would give them away to the first X people who responded. I was shocked when they actually followed through.

 

[Knucklehead]

For me, Hip-Hop ended around 2003-2004 ...

So do you just listen to the same few albums over and over or have you moved on to other genres?

 

[mitter]

So do you just listen to the same few albums over and over or have you moved on to other genres?

Restricting myself to material primarily from the 80s and 90s doesn't amount to a "few albums"

 

[I love Latina women]

For me, Hip-Hop ended around 2003-2004 ...

The golden years were long over by this point

88 to 96 reign supreme

 

[DonB90]

The era of low quality trash lyrics with low quality beats being accepted as rap/hip hop

 

[mitter]

The golden years were long over by this point

88 to 96 reign supreme

Yes, but there was still quality material coming out into the early 00s ...

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

For me, Hip-Hop ended around 2003-2004 ...

I kinda feel the same way. Even beyond just how the sound of the music was changing so drastically (and not for the better), consuming music and being a part of the culture was changing to something unrecognizable. Music stores and vinyl spots I used to frequent for albums and singles were going out of business, all my favorite radio mix shows were getting cancelled, Rap City was wack by then, print magazines were stopping publications. Early-mid 2000s is where we really begin to see how the changes in technology altered the production and consumption of music/hip-hop.

 

[I love Latina women]

Yes, but there was still quality material coming out into the early 00s ...

Yeah, the culture had just changed and the overall movement was different

 

[I love Latina women]

I kinda feel the same way. Even beyond just how the sound of the music was changing so drastically (and not for the better), consuming music and being a part of the culture was changing to something unrecognizable. Music stores and vinyl spots I used to frequent for albums and singles were going out of business, all my favorite radio mix shows were getting cancelled, Rap City was wack by then, print magazines were stopping publications. Early-mid 2000s is where we really begin to see how the changes in technology altered the production and consumption of music/hip-hop.

Once Big Lez and Joe Clair left, it was wack

 

[Dipsey Doo]

05 was really the last year that I bought physical media - I got my first Ipod in early 06

Kanye, Game and the Houston rappers are really the only memorable points of 05.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

I remember getting the Starchild CD free in the mail. If I remember correctly, someone affiliated with the label posted on SOHH that they would give them away to the first X people who responded. I was shocked when they actually followed through.

Wish I had known about that, lol. This album was a japanese import, so it wasn't alot of publicity surrounding it.

I was actually briefly in a small collection around this time of a couple of rappers and producers that linked together to form a little crew online back then that included Soul Supreme and Supastition that was started by an old SOHH poster Vincetrumental . I remember us all talking about this album when it dropped.

 

[mitter]

I kinda feel the same way. Even beyond just how the sound of the music was changing so drastically (and not for the better), consuming music and being a part of the culture was changing to something unrecognizable. Music stores and vinyl spots I used to frequent for albums and singles were going out of business, all my favorite radio mix shows were getting cancelled, Rap City was wack by then, print magazines were stopping publications. Early-mid 2000s is where we really begin to see how the changes in technology altered the production and consumption of music/hip-hop.

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.

Everything was just different. Before all the changes in technology, the build up and eventual release of an album just felt like much more of an "event."

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Good year IMO but hard to beat 2004 which had a lot of great albums

Be
Late Registration
Documentary
TM 101
Minstrel Show